TheFind: LifeStyle Shopping (Part 1)

A few weeks back, Siva Kumar came by for a chat. Over a cup of tea, we brainstormed about the state of Shopping on the internet, and Siva shared with me the details of his new startup, TheFind. Over the next few segments, we will discuss the company in detail. Siva is a seasoned entrepreneur,

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Expertise Location (Part 3)

[Part 2] In this part, we’ll discuss the financing of Trampoline Systems, and Charles will share his observations on the Extended Enterprise as it pertains to Expertise Location. SM: Did you raise Angel money? CA: Yes. $0.8m Angel money was raised from a number of investors, including the GuruWizard Fund, San Francisco. SM: Did you

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Expertise Location (Part 2)

[Part 1] We’re talking with Charles Armstrong. One of the reasons I have chosen this topic is that I believe, it is one of the best applications for the enterprise to leverage web 2.0 principles. Charles Armstrong is Founder & CEO of Trampoline Systems. An ethnographer turned technology entrepreneur, Charles studied Social & Political Science

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Expertise Location (Part 1)

I wrote a piece back in January called IBM’s Entry Into Social Networking, where I discussed the potential for applying web 2.0 techniques on the enterprise. Subsequently, I have written extensively about Enterprise 3.0 and the Extended Enterprise trends. A company from England had contacted me after reading the IBM piece. This company, Trampoline Systems,

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Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject (Part 4)

[Part 3] In the final segment, we discuss the Extended Enterprise, and the SME growth market trends. Alignment with such trends and getting the timing right always becomes important in growing a company fast. SM: What % of your business targets Enterprise versus SME customers? What is your perspective on the Extended Enterprise trend? JP:

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Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject (Part 3)

[Part 2] Looks like the company is strong in terms of Market Opportunity and Solution Offering. But how about the Team?

Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject (Part 2)

[Part 1] Continuing in the vein of venture due diligence, here’s the second part of the eProject story. SM: What is the competition, and how do you differentiate? JP: A number of companies are in this market, from baseline project management tools like Microsoft Project to more traditional enterprise packaged software from companies like Planview,

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Enterprise 3.0 Collaboration: eProject (Part 1)

I have discussed a framework for Enterprise 3.0 recently, and wrote a few pieces to illustrate the Saas and Extended Enterprise trends that I deem as the drivers. Here is a company, eProject, and its CEO Jeff Pancottine, answering some of my clarifying questions. At the heels of Cisco’s Webex acquisition, this seems to me

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