The Rise of Eastern Europe

I was in Heidelberg this week, and had a number of conversations with people making hiring decisions on lowcost software development centers. It struck me how significant Eastern Europe is becoming in this equation. The biggest concern I hear about India in general, and Bangalore in particular, is that salaries are becoming way too high,

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Inside the $250 Billion Venture Capital Industry

WSJ reports that Mobius Capital, an erstwhile star venture firm in Silicon Valley, is folding. Worldview is also falling apart, abandoning its latest efforts to raise a new $250 Million fund. These are the larger departures. Many smaller funds that had cropped up during the boom era, have folded by the dozens. Nonetheless, the flow

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Map Spam Coming

Last week, Flickr announced GeoTags, highlighting the increasing importance of the “place” dimension in the largely “virtual” Internet. “When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we’d hit Spiral Jetty a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two weeks. Instead, 24 hours

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A CEO Perspective on SOX: Counterpoint

by Dominique Trempont, Guest Author As I mentioned in my earlier article on SOX, “there is however a sense that lawmakers went too far and that companies simply cannot afford the cost of implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).” I received an email, during this Labor Day week-end, from a famous CEO who is now a

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