Incumbents
Almost every startup has big companies (“incumbents”) that are at some point potential acquirers or competitors. For internet startups that…
Email Resolutions for 2010 – Part II
Here are the other six resolutions for an email marketer in 2010. Here are the first six from yesterday. 7.…
Monitoring a System
I've been using Python with IbPy, rather than Matlab. The code I post will most likely be in Python going…
A CTO Analysis of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Speech on Internet Freedom
On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom. This is a…
How to disrupt Wall Street
Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she conjectures that the internet is finally starting to disrupt…
How Google’s new “answer” machine could rock Web business
Google's new search technology, Google Squared, attempts to answer factual questions right in the query results, so that searchers don't…
Lessons Learned from Cubetree; an Enterprise Social Software Company
I had the opportunity to speak with the CEO of Cubetree last night and one of the things we talked…
ETL, Data Quality and MDM for Mid-sized Business
Is data quality a luxury that only large companies should be able to afford? Of course the answer is no.…
Can Social Media become a Universal Translator?
I have always been a huge fan of science fiction, mostly television and movies, but also a few select books…
Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing, Adjourning and Transforming
That’s quite a mouthful I know. This concept was recently introduced to me by Gil Yehuda via email and was…