Last night, 200 intrepid souls took on torrential rain storms to bring warmth and good wishes to our new offices and home of our Studio G program sin Silicon Valley. Dedicated to the startup community in Silicon Valley and around the globe, Studio G is designed to be a high-energy hub servicing entrepreneurs, their mentors and partners [...]
Continue Reading →A year ago, Guidewire Group embarked on an ambitious plan to seek out the Innovate!100, a global list of the 100 startups demonstrating high potential and higher velocity as they build their businesses from idea to sustainability. Today, after more than 30 Pitch Slam events in more than 30 cities on [...]
Continue Reading →Last week, Guidewire Group kicked off the Innovate 2010 program with Pitch Slam events in Zaragoza and Madrid. In all, 22 companies presented their businesses in our fast-paced, 5-minute format designed to quickly tease out a company’s market opportunity, unique differentiation, and execution against plans. As company’s pitch the business, our [...]
Continue Reading →This morning, I kicked off my 24th and last DEMO conference. By the end of the day tomorrow, Venture Beat’s Matt Marshall will be the sole executive producer of the DEMO Conferences and I’ll be on to something new.
History shows that companies created in down economies are just as likely to [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been an exciting morning around here, with the news of Chris passing the DEMO Executive Producer baton to Matt Marshall and DEMO’s new partnership with Venture Beat. Chris has detailed her personal feelings on leaving DEMO after 13 years, but we also wanted to take a moment to [...]
Continue Reading →Who could ask for a better job? For the past 13 years, I’ve spent my days talking with some of the smartest people on the planet. People passionate about technology and the art and science of molding that technology into products and services that address real challenges and bring new capabilities to people’s lives.
I’d [...]
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 →I woke up Friday morning to discover that I’d become a cat herder. You know the role: trying to get dozens and dozens of pieces and people corralled into some semblance of order. I should come to expect it in the few days before a DEMO Conference is set to begin. After all, I’ve been [...]
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