SM: Whom do you view as your competition? PG: If you disaggregate Rearden Commerce into all of its parts, we theoretically compete with everyone. Nobody has pulled it together as a composite application besides us.
EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMWare (NYSE:VMW) recently announced their quarterly results. While they failed to meet some expectations, both companies’ managements were reasonably happy with their performances in this poor economy.
Hydro Green Energy (HGE) is a Texas-based renewable energy systems developer and integrator in the hydropower industry. Its proprietary hydrokinetic power systems, Hydro+, Current+, Tidal+ and Ocean+, generate power without the construction of any dams, impoundments or conduits. HGE owns two patents in the US and others internationally, and it is the only US company [...]
SM: At that point, who was helping you to get the company established? PG: Around that time I did start to create my technology advisory team. There is a saying that you can see further if you stand on the shoulders of giants.
By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Success The series finishes with a couple of success stories: We were asked by one of the world’s largest Japanese technology companies to help them find someone to lead their corporate VC organization, which is based in the U.S. The corporate VC organization’s [...]
SM: When did you actually get Rearden started? PG: I wrote the business plan at the end of 1999 and hired my first employee in March of 2000. One year later, to the day, Microsoft unveiled their version of this.
Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them.
By Guest Author Tony Scott Building Global Teams – Case Studies in Failure A VC that we frequently work with asked our firm to take a look at a very interesting optical networking company in Silicon Valley with truly breakthrough technology they were considering funding. When we went to visit the company, we found that [...]
