Conflicting Court Cases Regarding the Nature of Social Networks
I was catching up on news this morning and 2 unrelated stories jumped out at me, the first being a case brought by ad company Sanbreel against Facebook. The issue at hand was whether or not Facebook amounted to a public utility and as such an essential service, and the judge who reviewed the case [...]
The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of
Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with
A $ 140 billion services backlog.
A relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts
Deep vertical knowledge in oi…
Practical Measurement Methods for Social Media Marketing
There’s a relatively new thing you can now say for sure about social media. Despite the sheer volume and variety of online conversation today, it can now be readily measured and analyzed in scale. With the advent of powerful new methods and tools for dissecting and making sense of the millions of conversations taking place [...]
Lessons From Crowdfunding In The UK With @Crowdcube
Toronto is a hotbed of tech startups – ranked 4th best in the world (not sure what “best” really means in this context) – and innovative startups need innovative investment methods. Today’s half-day Technicity conference, sponsored by IT World Canada, is focused on the topic of innovating investment with crowdfunding, specifically looking at legalizing equity [...]
The Series A Crunch: One More Reason to Bootstrap and Skip Venture Capital
I’ve talked a lot about bootstrapping on this blog–I am a total convert, and I’m enjoying every minute of bootstrapping my own company. There are many reasons for my enthusiasm. Investors these days are going to make you take most of the bootstrap journey before giving you a dime being one of the biggest. You’ve [...]
M&A The HP Way – Why the Autonomy deal was doomed, and what can’t be done to save HP
The latest debacle at Hewlett-Packard involving the allegations of accounting wrong-doing at Autonomy make for a particularly sticky wicket for CEO Meg Whitman. While there have been some attempts to blame her predecessor, Léo Apotheker, for the decision to buy Autonomy, it’s impossible for Whitman to avoid taking ultimate responsibility for the deal. And when [...]
The Upside Foundation – Give back a little while you are busy taking over the world
One thing that has really been exciting for me in the last 3 months has been the Salesforce Foundation. When Marc Benioff founded Salesforce he committed 1 percent of stock, 1 percent of employee time and 1 percent of licenses to charity. It’s an incredibly small amount of equity and resources but it has had [...]
Gartner Gamification Report Offers Good and Not-So-Good Points
The headline from yesterday really caught my eye: “Gartner Says by 2014, 80 Percent of Current Gamified Applications Will Fail to Meet Business Objectives Primarily Due to Poor Design”. It immediately brought me back to that old chestnut from CRM’s salad days half of CRM implementations would fail. It’s not that the prediction is wrong [...]
IT basics: Cost optimization for small and medium business
IT must always remember to focus on core elements of service delivery and project execution. To gain respect from the business, maintain a high level of operational excellence within IT.
Gliffy: bootstrapped in San Francisco
It’s rumored that a Web entrepreneur only has to walk down the street in downtown San Francisco to attract VC funding these days. That’s probably an exaggeration, but even so, you can’t help but admire the grit of Gliffy’s co-founders, Chris Kohlhardt and Clint Dickson (pictured in their new office, below). They’ve chosen to bootstrap [...]
