Venture Chronicles

I got this from a source who is usually pretty reliable on all things Oracle. Personally, I’m inclined to think that there is reason to believe this rumor given their financial performance and the redundancy that all of the acquisitions have created. No developers are being hired in the U.S., all new hires are in [...]

C’mon Ed, why don’t you just do it? Cut off access to content from all those “freeloaders” and tell your consumer customers that they can’t access the content that they want because the content providers are freeloaders who won’t pay AT&T’s tariff. “I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the [...]

I can’t say that Web 2.0 is happening in the enterprise yet, but people are starting to talk about it and that’s good. I have been invited by the Tie SIG Software group to lead a discussion on the current adoption of Web 2.0 technology in the enterprise, and how they might influence the future [...]

Ellison’s personal debt could make him another Bernie Ebbers according to his accountant

In reading some of the posts of the last couple of days the “broken VC model” I was half expecting to encounter a guantlet of entrepreneurs on the side of i280 this morning who were deserving of venture funding and unable to get it, or a mad dash by every VC in town to fund [...]

Here’s what I don’t understand about Wikipedia, Rob can’t add his name to a list of natives for his hometown: I posted my name under the “natives” section, which lists natives of my town, and someone removed me. I posted again, someone removed my name again. More due to a stubborn streak than anything else, [...]

There’s a whole bunch of discussions going on about “a new VC model” that supposedly fixes what is “broken” about the current model. You can’t stumble into Memeorandum right now without getting hit square in the forehead with all these posts. Here’s a couple of them… here, here, here, here, and here. There’s actually a [...]

In the world of architecture, names like Frank Lloyd Wright and I.M. Pei inspire respect and admiration. In the world of woodworking that same reverence is reserved for a man named Sam Maloof. His influence on American furniture designers and craftsman is so significant that he is recognized by the Smithsonian, and many more institutions [...]

I’m going to get off the Choogle (that’s China+Google) soapbox but I did have one final thought. Scott Adams wrote on the Dilbert Blog: One of the things I love about China is that they set high goals, as in “Let’s build a wall around the entire country” and more recently “Let’s have Internet access [...]

Now this open letter in the form of a blog is a fascinating idea. This blog is an “Open Letter to Google” consisting of one post only. As soon as we have an impressing number of comments, we will send the letter to Google. If you agree with the content of the post, please add [...]