If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, the “Ideas” page on the Sequoia Capital website is an outstanding resource. It’s rare (very rare) that a start-up can submit a business plan without any prior contacts and meetings with a venture capital firm and receive financing. But, this page is an outstanding primer of the themes and ideas… [Read more…]
March 22, 2008
At market close on Thursday, Bear Stearns was trading at nearly $6/share, yielding a market capitalization of just over $800 million, nearly a tripling of the publicly-announced offer of $2/share ($236 million) from last weekend. The general consensus indicates that the real estate owned by Bear Stearns in New York City is worth about $1… [Read more…]
March 17, 2008
An astonishing train wreck. That’s all that comes to mind in reading about Bear Stearns’ collapse and J.P. Morgan’s purchase of the Wall Street mainstay since 1923. According to the Wall Street Journal – “J.P. Morgan Rescues Bear Stearns.” “Rescues?” Seems more like Cousin Vinny bailing out the “two youts” somewhere in Alabama after being… [Read more…]
March 3, 2008
Doing some research about Venture Capital trends, I came across some interesting data provided by PWCMoneyTree.showing convergence in the number of venture capital deals between Early Stage, Expansion, and Later Stage deals, while the Start-up/Seed Stage dropped considerably over the past 12-13 years: Reading nothing more than the data presented in these graphs, I’m hypothesizing… [Read more…]
February 14, 2008
I’m in process of migrating to Salesforce.com for our company’s CRM. Here’s what I know so far: 1. Salespeople there are meticulous during the sales process. I’m hoping this is because they’re using Salesforce for their CRM. 2. You can get a user “seat” for about $65/month, and set up billing quarterly, semi-annually, annually, or… [Read more…]
June 29, 2007
[Author's note: A new article on this blog regarding Google employee retention is also available.) A recent Wall Street Journal article – “Start-Ups Make InroadsWith Google’s Work Force” has many people in the technology and business community clamoring with regard to Google’s innovation and employee retention challenges. Google has long been a source of personal… [Read more…]
June 19, 2007
Last Thursday (6/14/07), I attended the SVASE “Leveraging Service Providers” lunch event hosted at DLA Piper’s office in San Francisco. The speakers of the event were Christopher Keene, CEO of Active Grid Software and Radu Barsan of Redfern Integrated Optics. A couple of key concepts were presented throughout the course of the discussion. The first… [Read more…]
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