Here’s the way I think of “The Cloud” - If I don’t have to worry about my data when I spill coffee on my laptop, then I’m using is The Cloud. In that vein, I’m in general agreement with Urquhart’s definition – “Cloud computing is an application-centric operations model.” (After my visit to the Silicon… [Read more…]
December 8, 2011
Seeing that I’m in the data business, thought it’d be interesting to check out the new Silicon Valley CloudCenter at a Meetup event - OpenStack Swift – The State of the Project - organized by Dave Nielsen, et al. Only in Silicon Valley can you pack a room with 60+ engineers to learn about these things.… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
How humans’ ability to conceptualize and capitalize on gains from trade leads to economic and societal progress: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html Ridley references one of my favorite economics lessons from Uncle Milty – The Story of the Pencil – though he fails to cite Milton Friedman on the idea… Found that rather disappointing. (Thanks to Paul Kedrosky’s blog… [Read more…]
November 26, 2009
Working from the in-laws basement this week and took a little retreat time to watch a few TED.com videos. If you want to get blown away by things like dialing cell phone by touching your fingers or seeing if you flight is on time by looking at your boarding pass, this is for you. (And… [Read more…]
November 9, 2009
On the business side of life, there’s been an active discussion this weekend about a new initiative led by the National Association of Realtors called the REALTORS® Property Resource (RPR) which is designed to provide a national property data exchange for agents to provide to clients. Yes, snooze-fest if you’re not in the real estate… [Read more…]
September 11, 2008
Just a quick plug for our work at Altos Research. Mike Simonsen, our CEO, was interviewed on FOXBusiness News this week with a focus on potential bright spots in the US Housing market. Always cool to see our little shop get some national exposure. Here’s a link to the video interview. (There’s a short commercial… [Read more…]
September 4, 2008
With the launch of Google’s new browser – Chrome – I can’t help but consider one of the basic laws of market economics: Monopolies are good. Back in 1997, strategy+business published an interview with Paul Romer, a Stanford economist that has been a leader in the development of new growth theory. In the article, Romer… [Read more…]
August 18, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been intending to comment on the recent report released by VCExperts released in June regarding trends in venture funding in Q1, 2008. The graph below illustrates some of the key data from the report. The labels of A, B, etc. refer to the Series Round of Financing. While… [Read more…]
April 25, 2008
I spent the day today at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco, serving as a coach to aspiring young entrepreneurs and companies in developing their “elevator pitch” and venture capital presentations during the University of San Francisco International Business Plan Competition. Although the competition is a compilation of student-led groups that have been vetted at… [Read more…]
April 23, 2008
Over the last couple of years, Yahoo! has been on a perpetual shopping spree in recent years – acquiring social media and social networking companies to boost its status in the Web 2.0 world. 18 months ago, a Business Week article by Catherine Holahan – “Yahoo’s Strategy: Growth By Acquisition” – supported Yahoo’s strategy, promoting… [Read more…]
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