I worked in two international publishing firms before I came to the role of startup founder. I managed a team, hired great people, handled every sort of HR issue, created budgets, made board presentations, developed and delivered new products, and even had a hand in customer service from time to time.
But none of that [...]
Continue Reading →This afternoon, Guidewire Group received news that we have been awarded a SBIR Phase II Grant from the National Science Foundation.
The award follows the Phase I grant we received in early 2010 to validate and deploy the G/SCORE ™ Startup Assessment Methodology for measuring and benchmarking early stage companies. This follow-on grant [...]
Continue Reading →Now that health insurance reform is out of the way (sort of), our employees in Washington (that is, Congressional reps and Senators) will surely turn their attention (if not their bipartisan cooperation) to economic stimulus and finance industry reform (get ready for Obstructionist Politics: Round 2).
Among the bits of joy in the financial reform [...]
Continue Reading →I started my day at SAP Labs in Palo Alto moderating a panel discussion about “Enabling Innovation: How does it happen? What’s the secret sauce?” The room was filled with the managing directors of SAP Labs worldwide and their invited guests, the vast majority of them representing multi-billion dollar global [...]
Continue Reading →A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure to speak at Startup Camp in Montreal. During the Q&A to an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs, I described entrepreneurship thusly:
Imagine you’re at Disneyland. It’s August. The California sun is hot. You’re in line for the Space Mountain ride and you just know it’s [...]
Continue Reading →Jason Calacanis is at it again, and this time – dare I say it – the man has a point. In a post last Friday, Jason rails (does he do anything other?) against angel investor groups that charge startups a fee to present at their forums.
He writes:
Recently, I was made [...]
Continue Reading →Sometimes, maybe too often, I don’t realize what I think about an issue, topic, or trend until I’m asked about it. That was certainly the case this week when Tech Policy Central’s founder Natalie Fonseca asked for my views on technology policy in the new administration. Continue Reading →
Chris and I have been asked one question many times in the past few weeks: how will the financial crisis impact the start-up ecosystem? The answer depends partly on your place in that ecosystem but if I were forced to boil it down to one pithy statement, I’d say this: The real world has horned [...]
Continue Reading →As Co-Founder and CEO of Guidewire Group, I usually let Chris and Carla do the blogging, but something happened this week at DEMOfall that inspired me to pen this first post.
When Chris and I founded Guidewire Group, we did so because we believed that there was an enormous opportunity [...]
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 [...]
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