Archive for the ‘software business model’ Category
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
This is a little premature, but the deal is done. Following the core tenets that I believe this venture fund should operate, I'm "un-announcing" a $50K fund with Microsoft here in a web 2.0 way. The official PR/press will follow in the next month or so, pending the ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
In this high tech industry, one of the most misunderstood and potentially misleading conventional wisdom about startups is the separation of "business side" and "technical side" and "technical people should listen to the business people".
This is the teaching from almost every business school textbook: don't lead with technology, ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
This is going to be a very short blog because the story itself is too good to add any comments:
Sun Microsystems changes ticker to JAVA
On August 23, 2007, "Sun announced Thursday that it would retire its SUNW moniker on Nasdaq and replace with JAVA effective Monday. The software known ...
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 Conference (http://enterprise2conf.com/) is going on here at Boston Westin Waterfront this week. Nexaweb is showing its Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform here.
Enterprise 2.0 is a term initially coined by Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee just about one year ago. His definition was much more around things like wikis, ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
I am not as familiar with west coast VCs and have not run into Peter Rip, a general partner at Crosslink Capital. In general, looking at his blog EarlyStageVC, Peter is quite well informed and intelligent – which is why I was highly surprised to see a post from him ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Web 2.0 Re-examined:
The Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
Summary
Web 2.0 is the next evolution of the web that has a new usage paradigm as well as a new technology paradigm. The former is characterized by “architecture of participation” and the latter is characterized by “architecture of partition”.
Web 2.0 is ...
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Friday, December 29th, 2006
Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value
The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises
A Better Way for Enterprise IT
Corporate IT has always been centered on application development and maintenance. Each evolution of computing, from mainframe to client/server to web 1.0, brings dramatically improved efficiency, significantly ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
The tech IPO market goes in cycles, just like how spring is followed by summer, autumn and winter and then returns in a year again. A well respected VC shared with me some of his studies on the cyclic nature of the IPO market – one of the key conclusions ...
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Sunday, November 19th, 2006
This Yahoo internal document by Brad Garlinghouse (a Yahoo senior vice president) is a tremendous read. Brad started by stating his love for Yahoo, for example:
I proudly bleed purple and, yellow everyday! And like so many people here, I love this company
Then he bluntly outlines the big problems he sees ...
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Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
The industry has been talking about “open source Java” for many years and it finally happened (Java goes GPL)..
To be honest, I have not been enthusiastic about open sourcing Java. First of all, what does “open source Java” mean? Java source code has been available for many years. What is ...
Posted in WebDev, software business model | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
On October 31 2006, while we are all enjoying trick and treat on this Halloween day (a beautifully sunny day in Boston), there are some very nice treats in the web 2.0 space too:
JotSpot, a wiki-based collaboration software and service company, was acquired by Google on October 31 2006. The ...
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Friday, August 11th, 2006
In my previous post, "Every Organization Needs a Web 2.0 Story" , I outlined some of the business reasons why Web 2.0 is important for organizations today. I also promised to further explain what exactly Web 2.0 can do for enterprises in future posts. This morning I had the pleasure of reading ...
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
The shifting enterprise software market (business model, M&A landscape, investment, sales and marketing strategies, etc) is a subject that I studied quite a lot over the last few years. One of the angles that I use is to study the behavior of the venture capital community.
Quite a few VCs told ...
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Duh! Isn’t it obvious that every organization should have a Web 2.0 story? I know it is obvious to us techies. But the more I talk to the business community (including technology leaders), the more I realize that Web 2.0 is not obvious to them at all. A lot of ...
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
Wah, Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft to focus on giving away his money...Though the transition will take two years to happen, this signals the ending of an era. What would microsoft be without Gates? MSFT is officially becoming a different kind of company. Over the last 30 years, Microsoft's capability ...
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