It was refreshing to hear Michael Moritz talk about building “incredibly enduring companies” at the IVA meeting on Monday afternoon.
Drawing on the Dow Jones 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Moritz pointed out that only four of the 30 companies on the index today – DuPont, GE, General [...]
Continue Reading →For all my stewing about presenting an effective panel here at SemTech, I think we did it in spades this morning. I’m biased of course but if the amount of active, engaged audience members and lively conversation following the panel was any indication, Taking Semantic Technology to the Masses [...]
Continue Reading →Introduced to the stage at the Israeli Venture Capital Association meeting as a “mad genius,” Tim Draper may have demonstrated today that he is just mad. Insane mad.
The founder of what is perhaps the most active venture network (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Draper started [...]
Continue Reading →Last weekend, I served as a judge for the Women 2.0 business plan competition. Dozens of plans, submitted on a dinner napkin and supplemented by other materials, were vetted by a group of distinguished Bay Area investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs to determine five finalists to present at the conference. That’s [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ll never be an A-list blogger, primarily because I just can’t keep up a daily flow of posts. I intended a quick piece on the CBS/CNET story yesterday but the day got away from me. In short, I agree with Marshall. (Perhaps that’s my new [...]
Continue Reading →As I approached the tent where the Women 2.0 conference was about to start, I was struck by the string of prayer flags along the back wall. That, as least, was what it looked like from a distance. Up close, I realized that the organizers had strung up the entries -dozens of [...]
Continue Reading →I firmly believe you don’t find really great innovation by sitting at your desk and waiting for it to come to you. You’re not going to find it consistently by doing the Silicon Valley party circuit, either. You have to get out into the world and meet entrepeneurs where they live. And that’s just what [...]
Continue Reading →WE INTERRUPT OUR NORMALLY MEASURED INDUSTRY ANALYSIS . . .
Good morning, all. How’s everyone out there in peaceful-happy-go-lucky-tech-land? Everyone good? Anyone received a death threat recently? Oh that’s right. We have! Well, I supposed it’s good to be noticed. What is that old saying? If you’re not pissing people off, you’re [...]
Continue Reading →I know, I know: you likely can’t take one more analysis of the Mark Zuckerberg/Sarah Lacy debacle. But as tempers have calmed and more thoughtful analysis beyond “she sucked” emerges, I must add my two cents. As someone who was sitting smack in the middle of the audience and experienced the vibe, I disagree with [...]
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