The conventional Silicon Valley / venture capital (VC) wisdom is that startups should not bet on first-time managers in just about any position, but particularly at the executive team level. It’s best captured by the statement: a high-growth startup is not the place to learn how to do your job. This is the conventional wisdom [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Silicon Valley'
Veterans vs. Up-and-Comers in Startups
March 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: Silicon Valley · Uncategorized · Venture Capital · management · startups
Mark Logic Profiled in San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal
October 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Just a quick post to highlight a story in the San Jose / Silicon Valley Business Journal entitled Mark Logic in San Carlos Saves Customers from Drowning in Data. Excerpt: The San Carlos technology firm offers software that helps businesses store, organize and filter all the data they’ve accumulated, including e-mails and Web pages and [...]
Tags: Mark Logic · Mark Logic Corporation · Silicon Valley · Technology
Mercury News Reaches Out For Help
September 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I’ve always enjoyed Mike Cassidy, one of a seemingly dwindling number of columnists at the San Jose Mercury News, the self-proclaimed newspaper of Silicon Valley. So I had to respect his cover story column in Sunday’s paper entitled It’s Time For a Frank Talk with Readers about The Mercury News. Excerpt: Newspapers across the country [...]
Tags: Newspaper · Silicon Valley
New York Times on the Changing Ways of Silicon Valley PR
July 5th, 2009 · No Comments
Quick post to highlight this New York Times story, Spinning the Web: PR in Silicon Valley. The article starts with the story of a start-up first pondering, and then deciding not to pitch the big tech blogs like TechCrunch. Excerpt: Instead, [publicist Brooke Hammerling] decides that she will “whisper in the ears” of Silicon Valley’s [...]
Tags: Marketing · PR · Silicon Valley
A Silicon Valley GeoAnalysis by John Blossom
April 29th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Information industry pundit John Blossom, president of Shore Communications and author of the new book Content Nation, recently stopped by Mark Logic on a visit to Silicon Valley and wrote an interesting piece on his ContentBlogger blog. The post, entitled Silicon Valley Journal: Driving Up the Content Stack of Value, describes his journey as he [...]
Tags: Silicon Valley · content nation
