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03:23 PM Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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I attended a great panel hosted by Sierra Ventures on the subject of startup metrics last night. Dave McClure, 500Hats was the moderator and Chief Slide Officer with panelists from Sierra Ventures, RockYou, Zoho and Forrester. Thanks to Anand Iyer for Read More...
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08:06 PM Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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Over the past couple months, I have literally been bombarded with requests from venture capitalists to provide insight into the collaboration space. Prior to that, there was modest proactive interest in my sector. Needless to say in the first half of Read More...
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12:34 AM Friday, June 13, 2008
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I am going to continue to beat the mashup drum because I believe this is the year of the data. Well, at the heart of most business problems lies an answer in the data. This is not new. For years, we’ve tried to get at this data and have been partially Read More...
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12:32 AM Friday, June 13, 2008
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While attending Enterprise 2.0 in Boston this week, it was easy to get caught up in the enterprise blogging and wiki frenzy.After all, these tools give the unsung voice a stage. They truly flatten organizations. The CEO posts a blog, the technical writer, Read More...
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12:24 AM Friday, June 13, 2008
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While we all understand and to some extent harness the power of the network, especially in our social lives, it dawned on me that there is an inherent conflict with one of the key value drivers of how social networks can be leveraged in the enterprise. Read More...
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02:14 PM Friday, May 23, 2008
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Part Four of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Quatre: The Read More...
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01:56 AM Friday, May 23, 2008
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Part Three of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Trois: Poor Read More...
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06:18 PM Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Part Two of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Deux: Rising Read More...
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02:45 PM Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Part One of a Four Part Series: The Four Syndromes of Startup Failure. In his keynote to several budding entrepreneurs, Eric Benhamou, Chairman of 3Com, former Chairman and CEO of Palm, made some observations about how startups fail. Numero Un: The Dysfunctional Read More...
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12:26 AM Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Straight from the opening remarks at the NVCA AGM today, Mike Moritz and John Doerr interviewed one another on stage and discussed everything from how they snagged their wives to the dismal return outlook for VCs in Silicon Valley - if you are not one Read More...
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03:32 PM Saturday, May 03, 2008
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I sat on a panel yesterday organized by Fountain Blue , a community that fosters entrepreneurial coaching and leadership in Silicon Valley. This is how I came across Xpree . While I was given only a 60 second elevator pitch and a 3-minute Q&A session, Read More...
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03:07 PM Saturday, May 03, 2008
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In case you missed the VC panel at Software2008, here's the second part of my debrief. When asked: "How do you evaluate SaaS companies?" Sanjay from Storm Ventures responded: "robust, reliability, scalability." While Glenn from Granite Global cited that Read More...
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02:31 PM Saturday, May 03, 2008
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In case you missed the enterprise software VC panel at Software2008, here's the debrief - part one. When asked "What's a hot?" from an investing perspective: Navin Chaddha of Mayfield immediately responded: "enterprise software is NOT hot;" companies Read More...
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01:41 PM Saturday, May 03, 2008
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I attended a couple of the SOA tracks at Software2008. I was not surprised by the dismal success that SOA has demonstrated of over the years, but was left with a tiny kernel of hope. All the promise that Service Oriented Architectures held for enterprise Read More...
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11:23 PM Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Unlike what the development world experienced with emergence of two leading platform vendors, and up until recently a third with the widespread adoption of open source, cloud-based platforms, or PaaS — platform as a service, has yet to be dominated by Read More...
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