Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 3)

SM: What was your next move after Xilinx?

JJ: I was eventually recruited to run a small fabless semiconductor company in the RFID space down in San Diego. My family did not follow me down there, so for a total of five years I was commuting. >>>

Catching Up on Deal Radar 2008

Here’s some more catching up material for the holiday weekend:

In the last month, we have featured the following companies in the Deal Radar 2008 series:

* SaaS: PayCycle, Bill.com, Daptiv, PayScale.

* Online Video/IPTV: Joost, VideoEgg, YuMe, BitTorrent, Brightcove, Revver, MotionBox, Veoh.

* Others: Inform, Mercado, AKQA, Geni, Blurb, Mimosa, Metaweb, Cake Financial, and Mint.

Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 2)

SM: You have seen , I have been endlessly beating on Cadence and Synopsys on this issue. What has created this dynamic? Why is EDA so undervalued in general?

JJ: When you sell software the cost of goods is almost zero. When I was working with semiconductors, we could always point back and say there was a limit to how low the hardware price could go. The mentality was that as long as we could make some money from customers we were better off than making no money. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Vision India 2020

In case you are reading today, Happy July 4th. And here’s some reading to catch up on:

Vision India 2020: Renaissance, Gangotri, Maya Ray, Elixar, Bioscope.

Entrepreneur Case Studies: Carol Realini (Obopay), Steve Hafner (Kayak), Ramu Yalamanchi (Hi5), Francisco Martin (Strands), Samir Arora (Glam) and Jacob Jacobsson (Blaze DFM).

Tackling EDA’s Broken Business Model: Blaze DFM CEO Jacob Jacobsson (Part 1)

There is a common phrase, ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’. Business, high tech business in particular, has a series of interdependencies which have evolved into an ecosystem. This is particularly apparent in EDA, where Intel and AMD rely on the tools provided by EDA vendors to design a chip. >>>

Deal Radar 2008: Mint

Mint is a smart, easy-to-use online money management tool. The service is free, setting up an account is simple, and the site requires little user involvement while offering several advantages. >>>

3Com Beats Estimates

On June 24, 3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) reported its financial results for Q4 and FY 2008, beating analyst estimates. The vision of new CEO Robert Mao, who has been around for just two months, seems to be driving this welcome change in 3Com’s fortunes. He has three simple objectives: more top line revenue, better worldwide operational integration and more cash. >>>

Building A Vertical Ad Network Powerhouse: Glam Media CEO Samir Arora (Part 7)

SM: What has amazed me about the last five years of the Internet is the inability to segment, which is Marketing 101. Why is it so difficult to get segmentation? It is the most fundamental and most powerful element of marketing!

SA: Exactly! Steve Jobs talks about when he joined Pixar he saw that people in technology think they are creative, but they do not understand how movies are made and people in movies think they are creative, but they do not know how software is built. >>>