IPO
Another tech company, LogMeIn, lit up the blogosphere (e.g., this story) today by pricing its IPO at $14 to $16 for 6.67M shares. It's been a long row to hoe for LogMeIn; they filed their original S1 in January, 2008. The revised S1 was filed 6/
Cloud
Who'd have guessed that data centers were like Fight Club? Trying to chart the cloud’s geography can be daunting, a task that is further complicated by security concerns. “It’s like ‘Fight Club,’ ” says Rich Miller, whose Web site, Data Center Knowledge, tracks the industry. “The first
Marketing
I was reading this interesting post, Emerging Enterprise Content Management Trends, on the Gilbane Group blog this morning when I stumbled into this rather amazing soundbite. Jeff Fried, VP Product Management for Microsoft's FAST search engine actually proclaimed that "keyword search is dead!" Now, last I
VC
I picked up this pretty funny and, shall I say, quite cynical deck on the A VC blog by NYC-based venture capitalist Fred Wilson. Enjoy! [slideshare id=1549490&doc=vcnonadmissions-090608115036-phpapp02]
One of the most important skills underlying a successful business career is, in my estimation, the ability to think critically. While I think it's fairly obvious why critical thinking is important (i.e., better decision making), I'm often surprised by how poorly many many executives do
Here's a thought-provoking piece from Curt Monash, writing for Intelligent Enterprise, entitled Re-Inventing Business Intelligence. The basic argument is that BI is due for a revolution. I agree. In the nearly 5 years since I left Business Objects, the innovations that I see from "the
There's been so much hype about the would-be, Google-killer, computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha, that I've been reluctant to blog about it both because I'm not eager to contribute to the hype tsunami but also because I'm so overwhelmed by
IPO
One of my favorite kids' movie scenes has always been the inside the claw game sequence in Toy Story. The heroes (Buzz and Woody) are trapped inside one of those games where you drop a claw and try to win a novelty gift, in this case a mutant alien
Grateful Dead
The other day I found this New York Times story, Bring Out Your Dead, about The Dead's "resurrection" tour this Spring, and it both cracked me up and got me thinking. Excerpt: “Well, I agree with the people who say it was May 8, 1977,” he
IPO
See this post by venture capitalist Fred Wilson, guest bloggging on Business Insider (nee Silicon Alley Insider) and re-posted on his own well regarded A VC blog, entitled The End of the IPO Drought is Coming. The five key points of the argument are: * VCs have been in the
Entrepreneurship
I found this great post on VentureBeat, 10 Lessons from a Failed Startup, where entrepreneur Mark Goldenson tells you the ten things he learned from his failed internet TV network for games, PlayCafe. Here's a summary of the ten things Mark learned: * Find quick money first * Content businesses
Hats off to Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for the creative idea of interviewing Twitter founders Biz Stone (great name, reminds me of fishing guide Jack Trout) and Evan Williams in 140-character format. Excerpt: I was here on a simple quest: curious to know if the inventors
