Texas Instruments: Mobile Market Strategy

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author I mentioned in the last segment of this series that I was not happy with TI’s wireless and mobile market strategy. Let me try to explain why.

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 9)

SM: What do you think of SmugMug? It is very popular. JH: It is popular for us because we are in the valley. When you look at the grand scheme of things, they are still a relatively small company with about $10M in revenue. I think what they have done well is they said in

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Texas Instruments: Wireless Woes

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the last two parts of this series, I looked at TI’s position in the analog and DSP markets. We also concluded that the OMAP was central to TI’s wireless strategy. I am afraid that TI has put all its eggs in this one basket, and has perhaps miscalculated the

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 8)

SM: Why didn’t Flickr elect to work with you? JH: At the time we were competing with Yahoo Photos, and Flickr chose a small company who is producing product as their outsource manufacturer. That small company has signed up a number of sites who in the early days thought they were competing with Shutterfly. They

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 7)

SM: Travel is a “context” that has great relevance for your business. JH: We think about that opportunity a lot. What is nice about our business is our customers engage with us frequently throughout the year. We drive our business in a couple of ways. First, you have your typical holidays.

Would You Have Funded Zuckerberg?

So, here’s a question … if Mark Zuckerberg came to you with a powerpoint explaining his vision for Facebook, would you have funded his seed round?

First Time Entrepreneurs?

[This discussion is getting really interesting … please chime in, folks …] I am trying to figure out the seriousness of something that I see is going on in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. I need your help to understand the phenomenon, and would appreciate if you engage in this thread and offer your perspective. VCs

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Microsoft Inching Closer to Yahoo! Deal

Even though I have been a prolific writer on Yahoo!’s strategy, you have not heard me say much recently about Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo! after the initial analysis, since I have believed that the deal will happen, no matter what. [Microsoft’s Masterful Maneuverings and Yahoo!’s Turnaround Strategy summarizes my position]. Well, Kara Swisher says

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