The VC Shakeout
This piece in HBR is must read, it details why there will be a lot fewer VC funds in the future. The sky is falling on the venture capital rainmakers. Over the past 10 years their quarterly internal rate of return (IRR)—the primary measure of VC success—was dismal, hovering in the single percentage points and [...]
I’m Lucky To Have Bet on Mint vs. Wesabe…
I’m sure as hell lucky to have bet on Mint when Microsoft Money died… but to be honest it was a flip of a coin decision, Wesabe, the other web-based personal finance management program looked just as attractive. Good product, perfect pe…
Use Pixelpipe to upload full-quality HD videos from iPhone 4 to YouTube
In my last post on this topic I said, “What I want is a way to shoot 720p video on my iPhone and upload it directly to the cloud without any loss of quality.” Well, I found it. Pixelpipe is…
China’s Wage Landscape is Changing: Are you Ready?
Image by dcmaster via Flickr By now, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about the wage landscape in China and how foreign companies are paying more for labor (funny how we don’t hear anything coming out of China about mainland-owned and government enterprises upping wages, too — perhaps workers are a bit scared to protest [...]
Simple errors and big consequences, same procedure as always.
Hat tip to Eapen Thomas who pointed me to this year’s commencement speech at Stanford’s School of Medicine given by Atul Gawande. Here is an excerpt of what he told the graduating class: We’ve been obsessed in medicine with having…
Dell lawsuit: Pattern of deceit
According to a recently unsealed lawsuit, Dell shipped approximately 12 million computers containing faulty components and then tried to hide the problems from buyers.
Zycus — A Summer Update (Part 1)
This spring, I had the chance to meet dozens of Zycus customers and prospects as their “Experience” tour criss-crossed the country. These discussions with both existing and potential customers considering a range of Zycus solutions further solidified my view that Zycus has been successful in expanding outside of just the spend analysis area. They may [...]
Living PlanIT brings sustainable urbanisation technologies to market
I had one of the most interesting calls of my RedMonk career last week. It was with Steve Lewis, CEO and co-founder of Living PlanIT (ignore the fact that they are using SilverLight on their homepage – that is prob because of Steve’s Microsoft background). Living PlanIT are just coming out of [...]
Accept Software – Innovation is No Longer a PowerPoint Bullet
I was on vacation last week with my family and did not post anything but I have been wanting to write about a meeting I had with Accept Software a few weeks ago so I went through my notes and refreshed myself on the conversation, which was interesting in many dimensions. First let me give [...]
Extending Enterprise 2.0 at Booz Allen with MindTouch
While at At Enterprise 2.0 Boston this year, I had chatted with Walton Smith and Aaron Fulkerson about Booz Allen’s Enterprise 2.0 systems used internally and for Government 2.0 work.
