Web 3.0 = (4C+P+VS) = YahooBAY

On September 8th, 2005, I wrote a piece called YahooBay, not SkypeBay, as eBAY prepared to buy Skype. Since then, eBAY has stabilized, their core auction business is doing better, although Skype still remains a relatively unmonetized asset. I hope this changes relatively soon, since I am a shareholder, but I still maintain, it is

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Another Reorg at Yahoo

You can read about it at Techcrunch. Has Susan Decker read 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula? Here’s an org chart by Cogmap.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 11)

My interview with Philippe concludes with final discussions about Qualys, as well as his parting views on the extended enterprise. Also, all ye entrepreneurs in India and China, listen up, he has ideas for you too!

The FilmLoop-Comventures Saga

Techcrunch has come out with a story accusing Comventures about unethical practices in pulling the plug on Filmloop, and forcing them to be folded into Frabrik, one of their better performing portfolio companies. Unfortunately, the villain of this story is a guy called Keyur Patel.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 10)

We continue the discussions about the Qualys Software-As-A-Service business model, and offer the Extended Enterprise as the new paradigm challenge for software companies to tackle. In fact, if you are a software entrepreneur looking for your next big idea, listen up carefully.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 9)

Here Philippe discusses his current work with Qualys, where he Chairman and CEO.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 8)

In this next portion of the interview, Philippe discusses the Signio acquisition by Verisign.

Serial Entrepreneur: Philippe Courtot (Part 7)

In this segment of the interview, Philippe discusses his success with Signio, and the process of building its online payment solution. SM: What did you learn from the elephant hunting experience? PC: I did not know Asia very much, so I did not know the difference between the Asian mentality and the western mentality. I

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