Danny Kennedy is the co-founder and president of Sungevity. He has a diverse background as an activist, including his most recent role as the Campaigns Manager for Greenpeace Australia Pacific. In 2001 he ran Greenpeace’s California Clean Energy Campaign, which is largely responsible for the current California Solar Initiative. SM: Tell me about where you [...]
There can be little doubt that this earnings season is one of the bleakest in living memory for companies of all sizes and in all sectors. But as I have pointed out, open source continues to be a bright spot of hope. This blog has featured a diverse group of companies that all use open [...]
The leading data integration enterprise, Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), recently announced their Q4 results. Revenue of $124.4 million grew 9% over the year but fell short of the Street’s expectations of $127 million. During the quarter, license revenue grew a record 4% over the year and contributed 46% of the total revenue. Services revenue grew 14% over the [...]
SM: Where are you now in terms of revenue, growth and profitability? EM: For 2008 we will have in excess of $20 million. We are operationally profitable. We are self-sustaining, which means we do not expect to have additional working capital coming from investors for day-to-day operations.
San Diego-based Service-now.com was founded in 2003 out of the ashes of Peregrine Systems, which was purchased by Hewlett-Packard (and is now that company’s competitor) in a fire sale. Fred Luddy, who was the CTO of Peregrine Systems, believed that legacy enterprise IT software is akin to “customer abuse” and set out to build a [...]
VMware (NYSE:VMW) kept up with its previous quarter’s performance of exceeding the market’s expectations in the recently announced Q4 results. Revenues for the quarter of $515 million exceeded the market’s expectations of $512 million and reported 25% annual growth. EPS for the quarter of $0.36 was significantly higher than the market’s expectations of $0.26 and [...]
SM: What is driving your low medical billing rejection rate? EM: There are a variety of things. We have a sophisticated process of taking the claims and scrubbing them before they go out to ensure they are encoded correctly.
WSJ echoes what I’ve been saying all along. They even quote me this time. I’m going to the Kauffman Foundation’s Economics bloggers conference on Friday, where we’re to brainstorm on policy issues, and discuss ways to bring the focus back to entrepreneurship and innovation. If you have a blog or a column, please try to [...]
