Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 5)

SM: You are focusing on personal memories and personal experiences exclusively. JH: Exactly, things which are near and dear. We have always been a password protected environment. I am not going to put the pictures of my three young boys across Flickr for everyone to see.

Catching Up On Readings: Media Mania

If you have missed these posts from my recent writings, today may be a good time to catch up on some reading: First, in the blogosphere, online media, old and new media, advertising – big changes have taken place. Here is a set of posts from the Deal Radar series that might help you make

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 4)

SM: Your vision was to move beyond the traditional print model, and rather be the center of a lifestyle. JH: I also saw us as building a personal publishing platform. Yes, we have consumers doing all the beautiful cards, books and calendars, but we also have lots of small businesses, charities, schools, non-profits, jewelry manufacturers,

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Texas Instruments: DSP Market and OMAP

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the prequel, we discussed TI’s growing analog semiconductor business. Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) is an equally big business for the company contributing 40% of its semiconductor revenues. TI dominates the DSP market with 65% share and its products are preferred in a variety of applications ranging from communication infrastructure,

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Good Things Happen to Good Companies

By Michael Kanazawa, Guest Author One of my business partners at Dissero, John Dare, has been a serial entrepreneur and has raised money from many of the top venture firms. One of the pieces of advice he still carries around today from all of those experiences came from one of the Partners of Kleiner Perkins

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 3)

SM: Before we move on with your Shutterfly story, can you shift gears for a second and tell us the history of Shutterfly? JH: Shutterfly was founded in 1999 by two employees of Silicon Graphics – Eva Manolis and Dan Baum. Eva was a product person and Dan was a technology person. They teamed up

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Shutterfly’s Strategy: A Conversation with CEO Jeff Housenbold (Part 1)

SM: Jeff, let’s start with your personal background. JH: I grew up in Brooklyn NY, lived in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Washington D.C. and now out here in San Francisco. SM: Why so many locations? JH: Mostly in New York and New Jersey as a child. I was a strategy consultant and my

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Texas Instruments: 2007 Financials

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the prequel, I pointed out that TI supplied semiconductor solutions to many markets making it one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. Before I move on to dissect its businesses in detail, I wish to review the company’s 2007 financial results to put the rest of the

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