Nothing Stops the Box Bunny
OK, so I ‘m abandoning my pictorial post schedule, as Box-mania just broke out, and I feel compelled to jump in. But the skipped NetSuite post is coming soon… I’ve been following Box longer than probably most observers and some of the old memories are worth sharing – from an admittedly subjective point of view. [...]
More Dreamforce, Please
Dreamforce hasn’t even happened yet and I am already wishing it was about double the time it’s set up for. I’m arriving in San Francisco on Monday, two days before Marc Benioff’s keynote kicks everything off and I am already running late. As has become customary, many Salesforce partners are holding user group meetings just [...]
Tempestuous Relationships
In what seems to be from the lower paleothic period but in fact was about a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about the Mean Girls phenomenon and Shakespeare. This in turn was not actually about mean girls or Henry IV, but about the interesting relationship of…
TechCrunch trivializes SAP’s $3.4B billion cloud acquisition
Photo credit: Cloud watching by Michael Krigsman TechCrunch trumpeted an odd lack of interest in SAP’s acquisition of human capital management vendor, SuccessFactors, for $3.4 billion. The popular technology startup blog offered these choice comments: In what is perhaps the most boring piece of tech news to come out of this week, German software giant [...]
Fusion Garage (of CrunchPad-Joo-Joo Fame) Drops Grid 10 Price by $200 – Only $200 More to Go
Some things just can’t die. Like the zillionth incarnation of what was formerly known as CrunchPad…. then after a messy divorce from TechCrunch became the Joo-Joo (sold a few dozen units), and now it’s back as the Grid 10. I have a funny history with this device. I was a major advocate of the [...]
A Big Day for LinkedIn
About 10 years ago, I did a swing through Silicon Valley while doing some research on early Social Networking companies, including a number of mostly-or-entirely defunct companies like Spoke, Visible Path, ZeroDegrees, Plaxo and others. During that trip I stopped by the offices of a (then-) small company called LinkedIn. I recall the meeting [...]
Black Hat Social Marketing (aka Maybe Scoble Was a Little Bit Right About Authenticity)
I have to admit: when Scoble blew up over the idea that the Facebook comments adopted by Techcrunch might reduce authenticity, I was convinced he was wrong. The premise is a simple one: the Facebook commenting system forces you to leave comments under your real name. The theory is that a lot of people will [...]
Improve Your Blog Reading Signal to Noise Ratio
Since I subscribe to almost 200 blogs, it’s critical for me to keep a high signal to noise ratio. In other words, the posts that show up in my reader need to be things I really want to read. If I’m spending all my time separating the wheat from the chaff, then I’m wasting my [...]
The Narrow Bubble
Many are saying that we are in another tech ‘bubble’ – but is so, despite the extraordinary valuations accruing to a small number of companies, why are so many entrepreneurs having trouble getting funded?
New Kingmakers: Software Developer Talent as Financial Bubble
Interesting post from Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures today: he is worried investments are happening without due diligence… but the war for development talent is the real issue for startups and investors. We are also seeing a massive talent war for software engineers going on in Silicon Valley and it is spilling over into [...]
