Guba CEO steps down, says more execs may follow

It’s kind of refreshing to see an executive state the obvious. Guba is an interesting business because they bootstrapped it but in the process made themselves toxic to mainstream venture capital because their bootstrapping mechanism was a porn business, excuse me “adult content”. Yeah, they had over 300,000 subscribers paying $15 a month for a […]

What It Is vs. What It Does

We have been going through a pretty intense process over the last month putting together the series B pitch for Teqlo. It’s been challenging on a couple of fronts, but primarily because of self imposed complexity. In other words, given 10 seconds how do I articulate what the company does in a manner that people […]

Last.fm updates their Mac client - it works now

I wrote about Last.fm a while back and continue to hold this service up as a real standout for it’s ability to deliver a compelling service that stands apart from other streaming music services - this is what Real Networks should have been about. The one thing that was disappointing is that the Mac client […]

Let’s Say Thanks

This site really made my day today. You can select a postcard from a gallery, add a message of your own or select one of the prepared messages and Xerox will print it and Give2TheTroops will include it in the care packages they send to soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.

My compliments to Xerox for doing […]

Disconnect and Contrast

I was reading this account of a terrible fuel explosion in Nigeria that killed 260 people; two sentences served to pointedly underscore the worthlessness of Kofi Annan is if for no other reason than how disconnected he is while sequestered away in his Manhattan mansion.

Here’s Annan’s call to arms: U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed his condolences […]

More WOMA Stating the Obvious…

Puff piece in the NYTimes about a couple of doctors who created some skin care products for kids and generated strong buzz by giving the products away to moms who chatted them up on message boards. I realize that this is a shocking observation, so you should probably sit down and breath deeply.

There is a […]

2007 prediction

I’ve given this a lot of thought and can only make one prediction with confidence for the upcoming year, that we will witness a lot of high profile executive departures from mainline enterprise software companies to SaaS companies. It will be this flow of executives out of traditional software that will alarm SAP/Oracle/Microsoft/IBM/etc. and bring […]

Christmas gift from Pingdom – One free year of uptime monitoring

There’s not much time left on this special offer but I signed up for a free year of uptime monitoring. It looks like a great deal.

Royal Pingdom » Christmas gift from Pingdom – One free year of uptime monitoring: During the next 48 hours (ok, 45 as of this writing) it is possible to sign up […]

Microsoft fights Gmail in the workplace

Funny true story. The default Exchange mailbox size at SAP was 50mb - fifty megabytes, or put another way, equal to one of those free USB drives that they give out at conferences. The IT guys in Palo Alto were always really good to me by increasing it whenever I asked and with no hassle […]

We Live in a World That Requires Revenue

Courtesy of Jim Fisher, a hero to us all.

UPDATE: “Lap dances are not expensible” would have been a much better title for this post.

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