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HOT TOPICS
- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
silicon valley
Incubator Funds in India: Management Team
This is going to be the last segment for this series on Incubators in India, and it tackles the key to making such incubators work. We have said, that we need concept engineering, engineering management, product marketing, sales, biz dev, legal and financial talent in the incubator management team. I am going to, therefore, propose
State of Venture Capital
Siva Kumar emailed me a great article on the state of Venture Capital in Silicon Valley, in response to my VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance piece. I suggest you read the article, but here are some sharp excerpts: :: It’s not that venture firms are destitute. They’ve got plenty of base hits. But the home runs are
Bootstrapping is One Answer
The VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance post has generated great discussion. In it, a theme that emerges over and again, is Bootstrapping. You have read a few of my prior writings on Bootstrapping [Is Bootstrapping Becoming Sexy and Again? and Protect Your Dilution]. There is no doubt at all anymore that bootstrapping is, indeed, becoming sexy again.
The VC-Entrepreneur Compensation Disbalance
We started discussing the leadership development problem in my previous post referring to Prof. Khurana’s new book about Business Schools losing sight of their mission of grooming leaders capable of building and running sustainable enterprises by following the money trail. So, what’s happening in the Venture Capital / Private Equity world? The compensation disbalance here
Web 3.0: PeopleID, and Plaxo
While we are on the topic of PlaceID and PeopleID, I should tell you about my recent visit with Plaxo’s CEO Ben Golub, and VP of Marketing John McCrea. Ben Golub was, prior to Plaxo, the CMO of Verisign. Ben’s first Silicon Valley job was cutting apricots in an orchard which was paved over to
Business Objects Looks Great
Business Objects (NASDAQ: BOBJ), a French company that provides business intelligence (BI) to enterprises, is riding high on superlative second quarter performance announced on July 25. All its 3 major revenue lines – licensed software (Q2/07 revenue $149 million, up 21% year-over-year), maintenance ($152 million, +23% y-o-y) and global services ($62 million, +29% y-o-y) –
Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 10)
3Com started growing revenues again in 1992 on the strengths of new products. The company grew about 15 fold in a decade, in terms of revenues, and became profitable again. SM: That was a golden age in networking! EB: Yes, and shareholder value went from the million range to billion range. It was fun, because
Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 4)
SM: You were at Zilog, but their focus was not on networking. EB: Right. We attempted to build a business out of the networking developments. When I say we, I say a few friends who all ended up being significant contributors to the networking industry. They are people like Judy Estrin, Joe Kennedy, Bill Carico,
