(Updated: I read the earnings call transcript and made a few changes.) One of the items I'm tracking in this blog is Convera's burn-the-ships attempt at transition from a Federally focused enterprise search provider to a vertical search platform provider. (See prior posts: Honey
Check out this video featuring Mark Logic's own Kelly Stirman -- appropriately wearing an official Mark Logic shirt -- on the Microsoft Document Interoperability Initiative, a launch and series of events we participated in a few months ago related to the new Microsoft Open XML file formats. Here are a
I've written a fair bit about Fast Search and Transfer on this blog (e.g., The Blood-Letting Begins, Fast to Restate 2006, Fast Search Train Wreck: Who's Accountable?, Microsoft Bids $1.2B for Fast) and I've done so for a number of reasons:
Marketing
Go here to check out coverage of the recent panel session I did in New York City at the CMO Club summit. Overall, I enjoyed participating on the panel and want to thank both Pete from the CMO Club for inviting me and the other panelists for the fun debate.
VC
Check out this article in the San Jose Mercury news, entitled Watching Their Words: In A Soft Economy Venture Firms Trying To Avoid Hot Air and Arrogance. Excerpt: "There's a lot of hot air and arrogance in the business that we all would be better off without,
Marketing
Branding always has it problems. Often, they're international in nature; remember the Unix systems vendor Arete? They had big problems in France where arrete means "stop." Who wants to buy the stop computer? Sometimes, they're cultural -- I remember at Business Objects when the (English)
Marketing
I've been traveling a lot recently (including a nice vacation at Club Med in Mexico) so please excuse the hiatus in posting. In restarting, I thought I'd blaze out of the gates with a controversial marketing rant on user conference branding provoked, in part, by a
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
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
