In case you missed the VC panel at Software2008, here's the second part of my debrief. When asked: "How do you evaluate SaaS companies?" Sanjay from Storm Ventures responded: "robust, reliability, scalability". While Glenn from...
In case you missed the enterprise software VC panel at Software2008, here's the debrief - part one. When asked "What's a hot?" from an investing perspective: Navin Chaddha of Mayfield immediately responded: "enterprise software...
I'm on day two of Software 2008 and the SaaS, PaaS, SOA and Enterprise 2.0 themes couldn't be louder. In terms of Enterprise 2.0, mashups & integration are the emerging topics to explore. On the heels of Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week, where...
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I'm on day two of Software 2008 and the SaaS, PaaS, SOA and Enterprise 2.0 themes couldn't be louder. In terms of Enterprise 2.0, mashups & integration are the emerging topics to explore. On the heels of Web 2.0 Expo in SF last week, where...
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I was inspired to blog about this rather topical subject after reading today’s WSJ article entitled “Trying to Be Better At Being Connected Is a Waste of Time”, by Vauhini Vara. In a nutshell, the author takes a few jabs at web office vendors after his...
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Filed under: Software + Services, SaaS, adobe buzzword, office 2.0, google docs, microsoft office, excel, web apps, thinkfree, zoho, expresso
To augment my colleague’s re-cap, there was lively discussion about topics other than social networking and online advertising. Overall, the panel agreed that tech investments would continue to grow its share of the VC investment pie. There is appetite...
Last week, General Electric and Microsoft jointly organized the first edition of the Software Academy in Paris. The Software Academy was a One-Day MBA aimed at ISV entrepreneurs (ISV = independent software vendor; or software publisher, be software be...
On July 26, Ray Ozzie delivered his view of Microsoft’s strategy for software + services – which some call “Microsoft’s term for SaaS” -- at our financial analysts meeting. This weekend, the Seattle Times wrote two articles about Ray, his role at Microsoft...