Culture
The blogosphere is lit up with discussion of this 128-slide internal presentation on culture at Netflix, dug up by the Hacking Netflix blog and discussed in this TechCrunch story. I'm a big believer in the importance of corporate culture as a competitive advantage and often use colorful analogies
Just picked this joke up via a (warning: expletive) cartoon a friend mailed me. To spare those who want to avoid the expletive, here's the text. Bob: So, how do I query the database? IT guy: It's not a database. It's a key-value store.
I've been off filling my brain at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for the past two weeks, so I haven't been able to post much. I have nevertheless managed to keep my Tweetstream going so, if you're not already following me on Twitter,
Marketing
Quick post to highlight this New York Times story, Spinning the Web: PR in Silicon Valley. The article starts with the story of a start-up first pondering, and then deciding not to pitch the big tech blogs like TechCrunch. Excerpt: Instead, [publicist Brooke Hammerling] decides that she will “whisper in
Mike Stonebraker spoke today at SIGMOD (see Tweetstream) where, among other things there was a 40-year anniversary celebration of the relational DBMS and, in what I suspect is non-coincidental timing, Mike did a post on the CACM site entitled The End of a DBMS Era (Might be Upon Us). Excerpt:
IPO
I just finished reading Right-Sizing the US Venture Capital Industry by Paul Kedrosky, author of the Infectious Greed blog and wanted to share some thoughts on it here. He starts with an interesting swipe at two of the more popular claims of venture industry marketing: (1) the citation of great
Entrepreneurship
Here's another report that crushes the myth that entrepreneurship is only for the young: The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom by Dane Stanler and published by the Kauffman Foundation. Excerpt: Contrary to popularly held assumptions, it turns out that over the past decade or so, the highest rate of entrepreneurial
Strategy
I found this great post and Venn diagram on the What Consumes Me blog via O'Reilly Radar. It's very simple, very pragmatic, and coincidentally is quite similar to my career planning for individuals: intersect what you're good at with what you like doing with
IPO
Another tech company, LogMeIn, lit up the blogosphere (e.g., this story) today by pricing its IPO at $14 to $16 for 6.67M shares. It's been a long row to hoe for LogMeIn; they filed their original S1 in January, 2008. The revised S1 was filed 6/
Cloud
Who'd have guessed that data centers were like Fight Club? Trying to chart the cloud’s geography can be daunting, a task that is further complicated by security concerns. “It’s like ‘Fight Club,’ ” says Rich Miller, whose Web site, Data Center Knowledge, tracks the industry. “The first
Marketing
I was reading this interesting post, Emerging Enterprise Content Management Trends, on the Gilbane Group blog this morning when I stumbled into this rather amazing soundbite. Jeff Fried, VP Product Management for Microsoft's FAST search engine actually proclaimed that "keyword search is dead!" Now, last I
VC
I picked up this pretty funny and, shall I say, quite cynical deck on the A VC blog by NYC-based venture capitalist Fred Wilson. Enjoy! [slideshare id=1549490&doc=vcnonadmissions-090608115036-phpapp02]
