The Fall of Wall Street and The Rise of The Virtual Street

By Guest Author Saad Fazil

While the “real” economy has been tumbling for the past two years or so, social applications, online gaming, and the virtual economy have proven to be fairly resilient in the face of the economic slump. >>>

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 4)

SM: What did you do after your meeting with the Goldman Sachs partners?

VR: I borrowed a Sun workstation. They wanted to get into the commercial sector and they were competing in the engineering workstation area as well. We were the guys who took Sun and put it all over Wall Street. That turned out to be an incredible application. >>>

The Web Startup Success Guide (Part 3): Startup Incubators

By Guest Author Bob Walsh

[After interviewing Aaron Patzer about the founding of Mint.com and Rebecca Lynn of Morgenthaler Ventures about early-stage venture capital, in this final excerpt from his forthcoming book, “The Web Startup Guide”, Bob discusses startup incubators and how they can help entrepreneurs in the US and around the world.]

To close out this section about raising capital, it’s time to have a look at just a few of the startup incubators out there. As I said in Chapter 1, you can definitely make the case that the modern, post-dot-com era of startups began in 2005, when Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell and Jessica Livingston founded Y Combinator. >>>

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 3)

SM: You mentioned that you developed a value system during your time at Fortune. What was that?

VR: Fortune Systems was an interesting company. I saw that it would be mathematically very difficult for them to make it. >>>

Not Your Father’s IBM

After Intel’s strong results this week, yesterday IBM (NYSE:IBM), the world’s leading computer services provider with annual revenue of $103.6 billion, reported a strong second quarter and also increased its 2009 earnings outlook. IBM has benefited from its strategic transformation towards Smarter Planet solutions, business analytics and cloud computing. Let’s take a closer look. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Mompreneurs

Here’s Zero In on women juggling motherhood and careers using entrepreneurship as a vehicle: read Mompreneurs.

As part of this story, we also encourage you to tell your own story of mompreneurship, or stories of other women entrepreneurs who are successfully juggling entrepreneurship and motherhood, and have insights to share.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 2)

SM: What did you do after MIT?

VR: I did a couple of degrees at MIT. I did a bachelor’s, a master’s and part of a PhD, all in EE. While I was at MIT I started working as a consultant for the auto industry and became interested in robotics. >>>

Apple’s Competitive Strategy

Two moves by Apple have caught my eye today. As I wrote the Adobe post this morning, I raised my eyebrows when I saw that Apple is not permitting Adobe’s Flash on the iPhone.

Later, I raised my eyebrow again as I saw the news that Apple is blocking Palm Pre’s iTunes sync capability. >>>