Roundtable Recap: April 29 – Finding The Right Direction

This morning I spoke with four entrepreneurs covering a wide range of businesses, from an inventory optimization SaaS to an e-commerce site that creates a keepsake of your child’s artwork. They each have different choices to make right now.  Move to a different platform? Go non-profit? I developed my Web 3.0 framework to help entrepreneurs

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April 29 Roundtable Recording

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Building One Of The World’s Biggest Tech Blogs From New Zealand: ReadWriteWeb Founder Richard MacManus (Part 1)

Richard MacManus is the founder and co-editor of ReadWriteWeb, which he founded in April 2003. Today ReadWriteWeb has millions of readers and is syndicated by the New York Times. Through his blog, Richard has become well known for forecasting technology trends and how they will be adopted or used throughout the world. Richard was born,

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HP Buying Palm for $1.2 Billion

Well, just about a month back, I analyzed what went wrong at Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) and said that the best fit for Palm as an acquirer would be HP (NYSE:HPQ). Well, HP IS acquiring Palm for $1.2 billion in cash including debt. HP will pay $5.70 per Palm share, a 23% premium to Wednesday’s closing price

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Deal Radar 2010: LeadForce1 California, Michigan

Through its marketing automation 2.0 approach, LeadForce1 aims to provide the missing link between Web analytics and customer relationship management (CRM systems), thus enabling B2B sales and marketing teams to uncover previously hidden leads, new prospect opportunities, and critical business intelligence within existing accounts. LeadForce1’s SaaS product deploys a patent-pending intent determination algorithm that spots

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Putting China On The Silicon Valley Map: NetScreen And Fortinet Founder Ken Xie (Part 7)

SM: What is your observation about Silicon Valley in the era in which China has become such a big factor in the world economy? KX: In our space China is still a small market. Their IT assets are growing very quickly. In our space the key is to quickly do the innovation aspects of technology.

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Soros On Financial Reform

Some of you may be following the Senate hearings today. Here is George Soros on what needs to happen: Do not ignore the need for financial reform. It was written on October 25, 2009. At the moment, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein is being questioned by Senate investigators. Senator Levin has done a very good job

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