Good Technology Business Blogs

There are many, of course. Here are some we read: TechCrunch: TechCrunch reports on new technology companies in the web space. Ars Technica: Ars Technica is focused on the “art of technology”.

Building Tech Startups in India: Observations (Contd)

· Mentors Entrepreneurs, especially first-timers, gain much from having access to experienced executives and academic experts either as informal advisors or as members of a formal board. Entrepreneurs I have talked to have either 1) tapped into US/Silicon Valley entrepreneur networks they were previously part of, 2) leveraged their connections with previous companies, universities and

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In France, Failure Sucks

We have had some discussions in the past here about how Silicon Valley’s success owes itself to the fact that risk-taking is encouraged here, and failure is not a stigma that you have to carry throughout your career. I recently attended a roundtable at Stanford with a delegation from France, where this topic came up

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Web 3.0 & MSN (Part 4)

Acquisition Strategy Microsoft acquired Medstory and aQuantive this year. Actually both were very good acquisitions. Online Health is a large segment with 31% of the total U.S. Internet users or 55.3 million U.S. Internet audience visiting health information sites each month during the first quarter of 2007. Buying aQuantive was a shrewd move. With the

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Do We Need More Funds in India?

Someone posed this very appropriate question in response to my Incubator Fund series. The answer is No. However, what we need is two things:

Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 12)

SM: What would you like to conclude with? It seems like you are at a place in your life where you are building this company to a significant size and this is your life’s effort a built to last company versus built to flip. What are your departing thoughts? ZR: A couple of things come

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Cash Salary vs. Options

If you think Bangalore is the only place where talent is migrating to larger companies and bigger cash salaries, think again. Ann Winblad says not. In Silicon Valley, Google, Apple, Yahoo, VMWare are pulling talent away from startups. So what are VCs and entrepreneurs going to do for their employees? The simple answer is probably

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Serial Entrepreneur Zack Rinat on Model N (Part 10)

SM: How much money did you raise? ZR: We raised about $42M from Accel and Accel KKR in June of 2000. We also had a couple of private Silicon Valley luminaries who invested in the Company. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google is an investor. Mark Andreesen, who co-founded Netscape, is also an investor. The

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