John Furrier
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Mozilla is Free That’s Why It’s Awesome
Support Mozilla!! A Twitter friend of mine John Barbagallo @jbarbagallo just tweeted … “Mozilla ain’t in it for the money…which is why they’re awesome.” This on the heals of the recent release of the Mozilla annual financial report for 2011 as well as the annual “State of Mozilla” report by the organization’s Chair Mitchell Baker as reported today. Google ...
MongoDB 10gen Gets Endorsement & Strategic Investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat
Big Data is smoking hot. Today, 10gen the company behind the commercialization of MongoDB, announced a strategic investment from Intel Capital and Red Hat. MongoDB is part of the database wars we are seeing in the Big Data space. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon have released research that show that Mongo is growing more popular than Hadoop. ...
RED FLAG for Facebook – Groping for Business Model ??
Facebook is an amazing application. used by almost 1 billion people. It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of Facebook and also a critic of their lack of scalable business model. Regarding the business model question for consumer companies, I have said publicly many times that you can’t change the user experience to force a ...
Big Switch Turns On an Entire Industry, Emerges from Stealth with $40M in the Bank
Big Switch is an software-defined networking (SDN) startup with plenty of credentials. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Cisco veteran Kyle Forster and Guido Appenzeller, the Stanford researcher who led the development of the OpenFlow standard. Big Switch raised nearly $40 million in venture capital to date, from investors including Goldman Sachs, Redpoint Ventures, ...
Breaking Analysis: The New Start-Up Founders Playbook
Unlike the old era of entrepreneurship we live in a new moderner era where the frictionless environment of access to and sharing of information creates new levels of transparency. This dynamic is creating all kinds of new disruptions and efficiencies in the start-up eco-system. Let me share with you my opinion and observations. On shinning example is ...
Opinion: How Big Data Can Change the Game – Big Data Propels Obama to Re-election
As the election buzz about how Obama won the election in the most horific economic conditions any incubant has ever seen, many want to know why. America has yelling for years and Barack extracted that signal from the noise using big data to “listen”. He aligned his message to those who were speaking to him. ...
Analysis: The Yahoo Turnaround and the Packaging of Marissa Mayer – Silicon Valley Tech Athlete
The real Silicon Valley it’s about the tech athletes. The entrepreneurs, investors, risk takers, innovators, and executives who make things happen and operate at a high level. Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer is one of those tech athletes and Yahoo the company is still in the major leagues with hundreds of millions of active users. ...
Cloudera’s Omer Trajman Joins Hot Silicon Valley Startup Wibidata To Run & Scale Field Ops
Wibidata, a hot Silicon Valley, announced on their blog yesterday that Cloudera alpha geek Omer Trajman, has joined Wibidata to head up and scale the company’s field operations. WibiData is defining a new space in Big Data, focusing on solutions that use all the data an organization has to create more people centric applications. Omer ...
Keeping the Founders Around – Founders are Tech Athletes
Founders are what I call “tech athletes”. Founders are the warriors who take the chances and big risks that no one will dare to take. In the world of venture capital, there’s a term that surfaces when investors encounter founders who refuse to relinquish control over their vision: “founderitis.” This term is often wielded with ...
Guest Post: Why Microsoft is Committed to Hadoop
Guest Post from Dave Campbell of Microsoft on their Big Data strategy and why they chose Hortonworks over Cloudera. Last February at Strata Conference in Santa Clara we shared Microsoft’s progress on Big Data, specifically working to broaden the adoption of Hadoop with the simplicity and manageability of Windows and enabling customers to easily derive ...
