409A Valuations
Don Dodge wrote about a very dry but critically important issue facing private companies that issue equity to employees… 409A valuations: IPO bump? – If private investors have already bid up the valuation, will there be an IPO jump in the stock price? Doubtful. This breaks the conventional wisdom about pre-IPO stock options. Companies are [...]
2010 Election – How I’ll Vote
Every 2 years I publish my personal voter guide, here’s the 2010 edition. 12th Congressional District (my district) The only choice is Jackie Speier and all I can say is that she is no Tom Lantos (RIP). I’ll leave the box unchecked. Proposition 19: Legalize marijuana possession How I’ll Vote: NO Why: I really don’t [...]
China Complains About Currency Manipulation (really)
It’s always ironic that a country with a fixed exchange rate, which many would argue is a rate set well below what the market would in order to feed their export economy, then levels the charge of currency manipulation against another. This does shine a spotlight on a serious issue which is the relationship between [...]
Gartner: Benioff and the Cloud
Gartner hosted there big client conference this week and it was interesting that they named cloud computing as a key strategic technology for 2011 (yeah, really going out on a limb) while also bringing Marc Benioff on as a keynote. Benioff is one a very small number of “super founders” who still retain CEO rights [...]
Does Paper.li Break Twitter?
I love Paper.li, it’s one of the most innovative and useful services I have seen in a long time. I actually look forward to people I follow coming out with their “The xyz Daily is Out” tweets because they are great information discovery tools. In addition to Techmeme and Feedly various Paper.li editions have become [...]
What Jobs Said About What TweetDeck Said
Interesting that Steve Jobs went on a tirade about Google in yesterdays earnings call. He mentioned about “Twitterdeck” (apparently referencing Tweetdeck) and their Android app, which they revealed a pretty amazing array of hardware configurations they tested against as part of their beta program. Jobs was apparently trying to say that the fragmentation of Android [...]
Sprint Needs to Step Up: Android/Evo Error Messages
Sprint Evo and Android.process.acore error messages.
Google, the Wisdom of Crowds and Conventional Wisdom
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about crowdsourcing and whether or not the benefits suggested by proponents are overstated. It’s not that crowdsourcing doesn’t have value, the problem I have with it when applied to generalized questions is that the result often mirrors the conventional wisdom on any given subject. It’s not surprising, we are [...]
The Leading Fill in the Blank
Perhaps no phrase in modern marketing communications is more used and more maligned at the same time than “the leading company in insert=market-here”. Everyone uses it and everyone snickers at it… so why? I was thinking about this the other day as I was writing some draft copy for a marcom piece and it struck [...]
Is Gap’s New Logo a Crowdsourcing Black Ops?
Here’s an interesting argument… that Gap hoodwinked everyone into signing on to crowdsource a new logo by using their decidedly crappy “new” logo as bait: That’s right. One of the most prominent popular fashion brands is crowdsourcing its new brand logo. So the favorite last-ditch tactic of brands and causes lacking money or new ideas [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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