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Entrepreneurs and Startups: Ron Conway Explained – By Ben Horowitz
Almost everybody knows that Ron Conway has invested in a huge percentage of the top technology companies in the world, but entrepreneurs often ask me why Ron would be a good investor for them. When I talk to venture capitalists, they know that Ron is important, but they seldom know why. Gary Rivlin, despite writing ...
Roadmap for Future: What is Social Networking? Gurus Respond and I Weigh In
I saw some great discussion on Facebook answers by Mark Zuckerberg and Shervin Pishevar (two respected gurus). I had to weight in since this is an area that I’ve been research and developing products for close to a decade. It’s a great discussion that can provide a roadmap to the future. The world is changing ...
Funny Tech Viral Videos: Good Move For Tech Companies Not Just Old Spice
Viral Videos are all the rage these days. I’ve been tracking a few big viral videos recently. Last week, the big Old Spice video series took the world by storm. EMC and Storwize have been having huge success with their awareness viral video campaigns. If there are any question as to who viral videos reach ...
Scoop: Oracle Gets “Spark Plug” for Converged Datacenter and Cloud Play with QLogic Deal
Is Oracle going hard at Private Cloud? Yes they are. I just confirmed that Oracle has done a deal with QLogic for FCoE in their stack and will be branding it Oracle. According to the QLogic earnings call its CNAs will be used in Oracle SPARC M Series servers, Oracle SPARC T Series servers and ...
FooBar In Silicon Valley – The Lost Decade – Entrepreneurship Lost In Translation
Great post by Steve Blank about “The Lost Decade” or the past ten years of the most f’d up entrepreneurship market that I have ever seen in my lifetime. I’ve been working up a post on this for some time in reflection to the past ten years of shit. I’m 44 years old and the ...
Viral Video Goof on Fat & Sweaty IT Guy – This Seems like more is going to happen
I ran into this viral video from Storwize and it’s looks like it’s the first in a series of posts. This is the kind of video that blends humor with informative ads. It’s obviously a teaser video love the apple that flys in at the end. I would have had the apple hit the guy ...
My Bing Review: It’s Clear Bing’s Big Bet Is Mobile – Bing Search Summit 2010
I was at the Bing Search Summit 2010 in San Francisco to hear what the folks at Bing are up to and what their product roadmap for the future looks like. Bing is moving the needle inch by inch trying to change the game to compete against the market incumbent Google who has monster sized ...
Official Skype Statement: We Did Not Block Fring – Fring Crashed On Their Own
I have been digging on this Skype thing with Fring. Apparently, Techcrunch is reporting that Skype blocked them and Fring has put out a release saying they were blocked by Skype. In checking around and now Skype officially responds and says that they didn’t block them. Skype Responds – Here is Skype’s statement: Skype has ...
Cisco Might Have Big Issues – Rip & Replace Verses Incremental Improvement
Let me get this out of the way. I have been a big fan of Cisco for many years. I have friends who work there and have friends who have sold companies to Cisco. I admired Cisco’s leadership in the Web 1.0. Recently, I’ve been down on Cisco for their strategy of locking infrastructure in ...
Big Data Clouds Are Here – EMC Acquires Greenplum A Move To Counter Oracle
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world’s leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the ...