More tenets for the next-gen analyst
Good friend Ray Wang lays out his 7 tenets of starting a new analyst firm – it’s a nice summary of his own decision process as he exited Forrester and what he has learned since. I would like to contribute a few more based on my book experience over the last year about what a [...]
Wikileaks and the Plumbing of Journalism
The web has way of asking big questions of society. And right now WikiLeaks is asking very big questions. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes the recent release of 90k documents about the Afghanistan war thusly, in a SPIEGEL interview: Assange:…
License vs. Service and Support Revenue: Some Historical Clarity
A blogger I honestly have never heard of in my 25+ year in high tech has used his 30+ year in high tech to claim that “tech journalist” Bob Evans is recirculating a “meme” that Bob is writing because he is both lazy and ill-informed about the historical revenue split between new license revenues and [...]
It’s a Bootstrappa’s Paradise!
I had lunch with an old friend recently who does Angel investing. As sometimes happens, I launched into our lunchtime discussion with a bit of controversy by suggesting that I wasn’t too sure what the value of Angel was for many companies. After a bit of calibration on where I was coming from, we quickly [...]
Science Warehouse: When the Spend Devil is in eProcurement/Catalog Scientific Details (Part 1)
In the US, SciQuest is a vendor I’ll be taking a closer look at later this summer and fall. They have done a remarkable job of beating out best of breed competitors and the ERP providers to capture the largest market share within life sciences and higher education for core eProcurement. But SciQuest is not [...]
