Strategy
I've been hearing more and more from my old friends in the business intelligence (BI) world about a product called QlikView, from a Swedish company, QlikTech, that was founded as a consultancy in 1993 and launched its product in 1997. QlikTech's war cry is one word:
Convera reported its 4Q08 and 2008 fiscal results (for the period ending 1/31/08). Highlights: * 4Q08 revenues of $0.28M * 4Q08 net loss of $7.0M * 2008 revenues of $1.1M * 2008 operating loss of $27.0M * 2008 net loss of $9.0M (net of a $17.9M gain
I've tracked FunnyOrDie.com since its inception, largely because our Sequoia partner / board member, Mark Kvamme, was heavily involved in its creation. Mark's son, Michael, an aspiring stand-up comedian, came up with the idea. The site launched with a now famous video entitled The Landlord featuring
I found this interesting Yahoo investor deck in this post on Valleywag. It's basically 35 slides on their future, the future of the Internet advertising, and why the proposed Microsoft deal undervalues the company. Among other things it projects a 72% growth in revenue from $5.5B to
I've never met Dave DeWalt, but I've met plenty of folks who have, and they universally say good things about him. So I figured it wasn't great news for the Documentum group at EMC when DeWalt left about a year ago to become CEO
Fans of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet have come to love his lengthy, poignant, wide-ranging, well-written, and often funny annual letters to the shareholders of the company. His recently released 2007 letter is no exception and I highly recommend reading it, here. Among other topics, he talks about the real
BI
It seems to me that SAP hasn't spent energy much getting the Business Objects story out, particularly when you consider that they spent $6.8B to buy them. What I do hear about the strategy, the integration, the overall story, I get through my BOBJ alumni backchannel. Thus
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who I now call Tim 1.0, as opposed to Tim 2.0 (O'Reilly), recently did an interesting one-hour interview with Paul Miller of Talis on their Nodalities blog. You can listen to the interview here. Because the sound quality isn't great, I
Marketing
I've had a few marketing inquiries of late so I thought I'd devote a post or two to some of my favorite marketing topics: messaging and the marketing mission. This post’s on messaging. Surprisingly, when you Google “how to develop a marketing message” you don’
I'm here at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York this week and had the pleasure of hearing Tim, himself, speak about his own media business in a speech entitled Free is More Complicated than You Think. Here are some excerpts and
Go here (QuickTime required) to check out an interesting, if rather deadpan, review of the iPhone user interface by UI and data presentation master, Edward Tufte. Click here (not on the image, sorry) to see the video. I'm a big fan of Tufte's work and in
Autonomy and Google are at it again. Per this InformationWeek story: Google I've not yet had time to dig into the detail of this, so I'm sharing it more as a news item for now and will -- if it proves interesting -- come back with
