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I read an article this morning in the NYTimes called Ayn Rand’s Literature of Capitalism. It discusses various business leaders who have been influenced by Ayn Rand’s philosophy of individualism, excellence, and her thesis that a small number of high-powered thinkers keep the engine of the world running. I read Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead first when
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Eric Benhamou: The Saga Of Palm (Part 4)
Palm’s product schedule went off-track, as they steered consumers off Palm V, an obviously terrific product, without a compelling new product introduction. SM: Do you think it created market confusion for customers? EB: Yes. It was a sign that the pace of innovation had slowed down. All of the people we had put in place
World Population’s Scary Trend
Our neighbor, Carl Jacobson, came back from Australia the other day, and talked about a conference he was attending where many big world issues were discussed. In particular, he was talking about Indonesia, and how its moderate Muslim population / leadership is important for the future peace of the world, and needs to be an
Web 3.0: PeopleID, and Plaxo
While we are on the topic of PlaceID and PeopleID, I should tell you about my recent visit with Plaxo’s CEO Ben Golub, and VP of Marketing John McCrea. Ben Golub was, prior to Plaxo, the CMO of Verisign. Ben’s first Silicon Valley job was cutting apricots in an orchard which was paved over to
“BI Appliances” are Entering the Fray
By David Hatch, Guest Author In May of 2007, Cognos announced the availability of “Cognos Now!”, a “BI Appliance”/SaaS BI offering that comes via the acquisition of Celequest this past January. In June, Ingres (an open source database provider) announced the completion of work on a “BI Appliance” with JasperSoft (a provider of open source
Eric Benhamou: The Saga Of Palm (Part 3)
After a year of relative stability, Palm faced the market crash concurrently with a failed product launch. The combination of stock market problems and operational failure created a bad situation which was compounded by a lack of innovation in product development. SM: Did the stock price sustain for a bit? The market started going bonkers
Web 3.0 & News Corp (Part 5)
Synthesis and Conclusions For the year ended June 30, 2007, News Corp. earned $28.66 billion in revenues, $4.45 billion in operating income and $3.43 in net income. Fox Interactive Media (FIM) earned $10 million in profits on sales of $550 million in FY2007. FIM’s revenues in Q4 2007 doubled from the same quarter a year
Intel’s Multi-core Future
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is the world’s largest semiconductor company. It shot into limelight riding the famous “Intel Inside” marketing and branding campaign in 1990. Today, with an employee strength of 90,300 Intel currently ranks 62nd in the Fortune 500 list on the back of FY/06 revenues of $35.38 billion. This is however down from its
