Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 7)

SM: How much of this vision is already playing out?

VR: A lot. Our leading edge customers already have it. You can go industry by industry and see how they are doing it. With the scope and velocity of life how it is, there is no other way to solve the problem. >>>

Last Call To Claim Your Free “Entrepreneur Journeys” E-Books

Here are the 15 winners of “Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume One”. If you haven’t claimed your e-book, please do so ASAP. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Confidela

As readers descended on TechCrunch last week, weighing in on the blog’s decision to publish confidential Twitter documents the microblogging service stored on Google Apps that were sent by a hacker to TechCrunch, Twitter users posted hundreds of tweets expressing their opinions and major media outlets joined the fray with stories that were variations on the same theme: how to ensure security in the cloud? >>>

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 6)

SM: What was the highlight of your TIBCO journey?

VR: The highlight is ahead. The best days are still to come. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: Offerpal

Offerpal is an advertising platform that monetizes social media by awarding users virtual currency in exchange for completing ad offers. Founders Anu Shukla and Mitch Liu combined their experience in online personalization, cost per action (CPA) advertising and optimization technologies to create a technology platform for the social media marketplace. >>>

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you sold to Reuters?

VR: For a couple of years I ran the company as a separate company that was part of Reuters. They cut another deal with me based on our profitability, so in the end they paid double the initial purchase price due to performance. >>>

Summer of 2009: Some Thoughts on Radio

Here is an interview that Barry Moltz did with me on the Business Insanity radio show. In it, Barry asked me about the young students, especially the class of 2009, who are sitting around at their parents’ homes this summer, watching television, and generally vegetating because of the drought in internships and summer jobs. I had some suggestions.

And while on the topic, please also read this NY Times article from a couple of weeks back: Getting Through the Summer Job Blues.

Catching Up On Readings: Startup Incubators

Here is a summary of the posts from this past week, in case you missed them. >>>