I Like Companies That Say “We Suck”

This is something along the lines of people who like it when people say “I’m sorry”. As for me, I really don’t care what companies say, I care about what they do… just like with people, it’s not that you are sorry about something but rather what are you going to do in the future [...]

Redeye VC: 53,651

Every so often you read a post that completely nails something from whatever angle you want to look at it, this is one of those posts.

By coincidence I had a meeting yesterday for an advisory board I participate on with some VCs and other “Valley people”. The meeting was to discuss an upcoming conference for [...]

Benkler: The Wealth of Networks

If you know me or have heard me speak you probably realize that I am a huge fan of Yochai Benkler (and Eric von Hippel as the two seem to fit together rather well). Benkler's new book, The Wealth of Networks, is out as a wiki and a downloadable PDF. Of course, if you can afford [...]

Persistent Search: Search’s Next Big Battleground

Back in 2004 I wrote a post about a service that allowed you to track Ebay auctions via RSS. The notion of watching keywords or triggers with a mechanism like RSS is so logical that it stuns me to see how little of this has been adopted by companies in my segment of the technology [...]

First IT|Redux Breakfast : The World is Flat

I’m going, the topic is interesting, Ismael has a lot of experience in the area, and quite honestly, very few people are publicly talking about how to actually implement “populist catch phrase business strategy” for this important area…. This event is sponsored by Lohika — our offshore development partner — and will feature their CTO, Mark Phillips, who will share his experience working with small and large software companies that successfully offshored part of their software engineering process to Western Ukraine.

IDC’s 10 SaaS predictions

But with predictions like this let’s just say I think they owe the people who actually paid for this report at least 5 freebies.SaaS Will Help Drive a Software Industry Transition to Subscription LicensingGee, ya think?I find it hard to believe that anyone actually pays to buy these “top 10″ reports that the analysts put out…. Plus, nobody ever goes back and actually scores the analysts on how well they do on predictions over time, at least nothing I have seen has ranked them.

Dark Side of Network Effects :: March :: 2006

Niel Robertson came by my office today and we had a great 1 1/2 hour conversation about everything from SAP/Oracle business to online advertising arbitrage. The advertising topic is what spurred this post upon reading Will Hsu's post about the Dark Side of Network Effects. I had a good laugh with Niel when I told [...]

Widgets

I continue to be fascinated by the Dashboard feature in my new Mac, there is an amazing array of widgets available that extend the functionality of existing services in very useful ways. I have also seen a trend of vendors offering widgets or encouraging their community to develop widgets, as evidenced by this contest that [...]

Will Oracle go subscriptions or not?

Last month I speculated that Oracle was preparing to abandon the traditional software license model for a subscription based scheme. I based that speculation on a couple of observations, the first being that Ellison has been devoting a lot of his public speaking to reinforcing a notion that Oracle already generates a significant subscription revenue [...]

How to Find Your Angel

Good article in Business 2.0 about how to attract angel investors. This is good because it highlights a significant trend in private equity which interestingly mimics what has been going on in philantrophy for a while now - younger participants who actually participate. Even 5 or 6 years ago being an angel investor was synonomous [...]

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