By Maureen Kelly As Sramana has written before, I have been working with her to help publicize and promote Entrepreneur Journeys for the past few months. After reading her inspiring book, I didn’t know if I should first go find a problem to create a business to solve it or buy stock in some of [...]
This week, we went to see Borobudur in Java. We arrived very early in the morning and found the temple almost to ourselves, except for a few other loitering visitors. Borobudur, as you may know, is the largest Buddhist monument in South East Asia and is a true symphony in stone in terms of architecture.
The atmosphere is gloomy in the semiconductor sector: preliminary findings from research firms Gartner and iSuppli show decline in chip sales of 4.4% and 2% respectively. Earlier TI, Broadcom, and NSM cut back their respective outlooks. And according to Gartner, 2009 is going to be worse than this year. But there is a silver lining for [...]
SM: What else has come out in your genre the last four years? JR: If you look at commercial open source, which is the category we put ourselves into, there are about 20 companies . Zembra had the same model as ours and was founded at the same time. It was sold to Yahoo for [...]
The SaaS sector has been relatively unaffected by the weak economy. Since the SaaS business model helps cut costs, business has been good, with most companies beating estimates quarter after quarter. However, the stock prices have taken a beating in the later half of the year. This presents a great opportunity for the stronger players [...]
Our coverage of health care IT continues with Oregon-based ShiftWise, an SaaS health care solutions company. Founded in 2003, the company was formed when co-founder Jason Lander recognized the tremendous inefficiencies that existed in the then-manual process of managing temporary nurses. He created an automated process that helped hospitals and other health care providers find and [...]
SM: Can you take us through the process of building your sales team? JR: People started calling from all over the world, so we built four different sales channels: an ecommerce engine, an inside sales team, a channel sales team and enterprise sales team.
2008 was a particularly bad year for many industries, and for the already failing semiconductor infrastructure industry the recession could not have come at a worse time. Here is a quick discussion of how semiconductor infrastructure stocks fared during the year.
