Next Roundtable Tomorrow at 8am PST

Look forward to seeing you at tomorrow morning’s roundtable, 8am PST. TiE Delhi is co-hosting this with us. You can register here.

Deal Radar 2009: concrete5

Long gone are the days of Web 1.0, when Internet content was generated by a relative few and website design was the exclusive domain of professionals. And as more people generate richer content, entrepreneurs are recognizing the need for better systems to manage it. Our latest Deal Radar company is concrete5, an open source content management system. >>>

Terry Cunningham’s Adventures: Crystal and Coral8 (Part 7)

SM: Which markets are you selling to?

TC: We sell into ticks, clicks, and blips. Ticks are Wall Street, clicks are e-commerce, and blips are sensor networks like RFID. Ticks are a no-brainer and we have a lot of big customers. Clicks are customer interaction management and next generation CRMs. >>>

Meet Four Great Bootstrappers Thursday Evening In Palo Alto

As we prepare for the launch on Entrepreneur Journeys (Volume Two): Bootstrapping Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction on June 1, I am moderating a panel this Thursday for the MIT Club of Northern California called The Art and Science of Bootstrapping. Panelists include Sridhar Vembu, Michelle Munson, Beatrice Tarka, and Paul Kocher. Please come, and introduce yourselves. I would very much enjoy meeting some of the readers in person. Register here.

Deal Radar 2009: Outspark

Deal Radar returns to social gaming with Outspark, a casual games publisher that has developed a virtual playground where online gaming and portals merge to create a new market called 3P, in which a company must be a games Publisher, operate a Portal and own and operate a Platform. Outspark.com is a “freemium” games portal combining online gaming with personalized social networking experiences to enable player to connect with friends outside each game.  >>>

Terry Cunningham’s Adventures: Crystal and Coral8 (Part 6)

SM: You were about to take Seagate Software public in 1998. What happened next?

TC: I made either the dumbest or smartest move ever. >>>

Fifteen Years Of eCommerce

Almost 15 years after the advent of the Internet browser in the mainstream market, it is interesting to see how the major eCommerce companies have progressed. Each pioneers in their original niches, are today starting to step on others toes. Amazon’s logical progression will inevitably lead them into Netflix’ territory. They are already squarely in eBay’s.

The end of this movie is yet unknown. Will Amazon eventually end up acquiring Netflix? >>>

Terry Cunningham’s Adventures: Crystal and Coral8 (Part 5)

SM: With all the companies you merged, what types of people made it through those mergers?

TC: They were the ones who could get to the table and arm wrestle over the issues. They could then go for a beer after and have some fun. They didn’t take themselves too seriously, and they understood that one day we thought we knew what we were doing while the next day we would change directions. >>>