While we have been revising the Enterprise 3.0 definition, and introducing sales methodology into the framework, I thought it would be a good time to drill down into certain aspects of Sales, and explore some best practices. With that goal, I first bring you an interview with a company called InsideView that focuses on making
I wrote last week, that we need to include Place in the Web 3.0 formula, and this week Cal McElroy introduced the concept of PlaceID, a unique identifier which enables all content on the web to be indexed by Place. As I was thinking through this, and exchanging emails will Cal, we also felt that
We have already discussed an overview of the online job industry and have reviewed CareerBuilder and Monster. Here, we take a look at Yahoo! HotJobs’ from the Web 3.0 perspective. HotJobs, originally, a job search engine, was founded in 1996. Yahoo! acquired HotJobs in 2002. Yahoo! The site has 20 million registered users and contains
We have already discussed the online job industry and have reviewed CareerBuilder. Here, we take a look at Monster’s offerings from Web 3.0 perspective. Monster, founded by Jeff Taylor in 1994, was the first online job search site. It pioneered the idea of having public resume database and job search agents. Monster has 18 million
I spent a chunk of my professional career working on turnarounds. Thus, I always find it interesting to look at companies which are in turnaround situations. Palm, obviously, is. What’s incredible to me is how Palm keeps missing opportunities to provide real value to its customers. Take the example of 2 services that have become
By Jörg Überla, Guest Author The successful IPO of social networking platform XING on Frankfurt stock exchange last December was like a big bang. Why? First and foremost, it was the first real Web 2.0 IPO in Germany (and among the first worldwide), which proved that the market is open towards new ideas. Secondly, backed
Here’s a good article on LinkedIn. I have written about them before, a year or more ago, and at the time, they hadn’t yet quite hit their stride. Since then, the social networking craze has become a mainstream phenomenon. LinkedIn’s positioning seems to have become a “see and be seen” place for professionals, with recruiters
Is LinkedIn useless? Most people you would speak with would say so. Then why does Sequoia put money in it?