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  We do not think you’re different. We are not confident in your ability to establish strong relationships with companies. And we will probably not think of you when we need funding later on.  Particletree » How Not to Pitch to a Startup . For years I’ve talked to VCs when I’ve met them, and I [...]

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It will be very interesting to watch Google’s Android play out in the market. The basic challenge faced by all those who want to eventually see useful, reliable, trustworthy mobile computing devices is a rewiring of the basic competitive landscape that delivers the services, the devices, and the connectitivity into our hands. The wireless carriers [...]

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 Virtualization is hot (or was, until VMWare’s stock took a beating — nevermind, it’s still hot in IT departments, where it counts), Web 2.0 is hot, and “Cloud computing” is hot. Together these trends must be sending cold chills down the collective spines of the giants of the IT industry.  This article on Forbes.com captures [...]

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I suppose this was inevitable, but it’s still fascinating to see tha, as the New York Times suggests, outsourcing works, so India is exporting jobs.

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I’ve been thinking that the enterprise was a wrong-headed notion for years, but my new friend Sig has not only been thinking that, he’s been doing something about. I love his metaphors for what’s wrong with how we manage the enterprise and do business, but I think I love his software even more. Written in [...]

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Yes, I prognosticate at my peril, but I think it’s actually a pretty safe bet that it is impossible for Apple’s forthcoming iPhone to be deemed a success — at least, in relation to the level of hype and in the time frame of Wall Street’s ADD. New York magazine published a profile of Steve [...]

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Perusing the title of this essay I imagine the reader bursting out, “what? Preposterous!” Or at least, that’s what I imagine if I was writing this a hundred years ago, and my subject was petroleum oil. If that were the case, you’d be right, of course. The development of the oil industry did result in [...]

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What I like best about 37Signals, poster child of the Web 2.0 “movement” because in an odd, tangential way, it captures the essence of the Internet-flavored gung-ho attitude that is fueling the trend. As a complete aside, check out the etymology of phrase gung-ho. Who knew that the most reproduced GI Joe figure was named [...]

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I’ve heard rumblings from some quarters about a return to the salad days of the ’90′s for the IT industry, this time with Open Source and Web 2.0 inflating the bubble. Setting aside the question of whether the dot-com bubble was something to which we’d actually want to return (it isn’t), the possibility of a [...]

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Having established that even software that is losing its proprietary premium still requires skills to deploy, and that those skills are offered by the Systems Integrators to the market as IT services, one other observation about the IT market must be made. That is that the services segment of the industry is highly fragmented. The [...]

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