Rules for Bootstrappers (Part 5)

By Greg Gianforte, Guest Author With so much of the world becoming standardized and interchangeable, there is little to differentiate your business from a legion of other companies. Except, that is, the special effort of backup support you provide to all your customers.

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Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 4)

SM: Your major competitive advantage is being a free platform as well as an open source platform? DD: Yes. As you can imagine, Microsoft or WebEx Cisco are not going to become open source or free hosted solution companies anytime soon.

Forbes Column 08: ‘SaaS-ing’ Back At The Economy

My Zero-In column on Forbes this morning is ‘SaaS-ing’ Back At The Economy. In it, you will see Jim Heeger’s description of the ‘thumbtack’ economy.

Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 3)

SM: What did you do when the company was sold? Did you stay with it and work for CA? DD: Yes, I stayed on and did some strategy stuff for CA. I then moved to India to start the India Technology Center.

Book Out Sooner

Readers, Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume One) was originally due on Oct 1, but it looks like it will be ready sooner, on Sept 27. I believe Amazon has started shipping pre-orders, so if you have ordered already, you should be receiving your copy soon. We have some nice editorial reviews, and would love to have as

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Deal Radar 2008: IVT

Online Video is becoming a powerful business tool, spawning a significant number of innovative companies. My continued interest in the sector stems from the fact that I am very interested in seeing gratuitous business travel disappear. [See my Forbes column, Kill The Business Trip] On this installment of the Deal Radar, I will review IVT,

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Bringing On WebEx 2.0: DimDim CEO DD Ganguly (Part 2)

SM: Let me make sure I have the facts right. How long did you work for him in his networking management consulting company? DD: I worked for him for four and half years. SM: Then you decided to start your company? DD: No, I went to work for a subsidiary of Dow Jones for about

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Deal Radar 2008: Sportgenic

Sportgenic is a San Francisco-based digital media and technology company that is focused on monetizing sports sites. The company, formerly named Active Athlete Media, was founded in 2005 by Robert Tas. Sportgenic has more than 350 publisher sites in its vertical ad network and 21 million unique users. The company was ranked the #2 sports

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