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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
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Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 6)
SM: The surprising part of the story, one of the reasons I decided to cover it, is that I have not seen too many major trends in our industry in the Valley that all of the VCs did not run after. The venture industry is like lemmings. Everybody is running after the same trends. Someone
Building an Ambitious SaaS Company: Taleo CEO Michael Gregoire (Part 7)
SM: I wonder how Louis was able to fund the company in 1999. I talked to a lot of SaaS company CEOs and all of them were turned down by the VCs. Yesterday, I was having lunch with Philippe Courtot, who you may know, is the CEO of Qualys. They do security as SaaS, and
Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 6)
SM: Let’s start talking about PayCycle which is where you are now. This is your old team from Intuit, right? JH: The team I came to work with at PayCycle are all people I have worked with before except one person. I feel really lucky to be able to work with people I know. They
Verisign Needs to Acquire
Verisign (VRSN) provides services for the security of business activity over networks and the Internet. The company consistently relies on its core existing programs of domain registry and SSL certificates to produce results. Is it enough to continue to increase shareholder value? The company has two divisions: the Internet Services Group (ISG) and the Communications
