Archive for June, 2010
What is Unsearch? Launchpad Winner Baydin Thinks it’s the Future
The ZapThink report the company commissioned notes that Outlook add-ons can be a dicey business proposition. “If Microsoft likes what a partner is doing and thinks they can do better themselves, then they’ll simply incorporate the partner’s functionality into their software and put the partner out of business.”
ZapThink Startup Insights: Sell “Bottoms-up” instead of Top-Down
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 21, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Neill Occhiogrosso- Highland Capital Partners For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Neill Occhiogrosso, Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm focused on building companies in the communications, consumer, digital media, healthcare and information technology markets. Highland Capital Partners has 77 portfolio companies, [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Few Opportunities for Startups in Cloud Infrastructure
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 15, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Elon Bloms – LaunchCapital For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Elon Bloms, Managing Director of LaunchCapital LLC, a market-agnostic, early stage seed investment firm. The company doesn’t specifically focus on IT, but they do look at around 100 deals a year in the IT [...]
The Dangers of “Checklist” Architecture
Move away from the “business requires X so we build X” mentality
A Governance-Lite Open Source Method for Service Registration, Discovery, and Composition?
We discovered some interesting work going on at NASA re Service Casting (distributing WSDL, WADL, OGC GetCapabilities, and plain old URLs of user interfaces via Atom Casting); coupled with an intuitive graphical method of composing services using an extension to Drupal called Talkoot, with Apache BPEL under the covers. What do others think of this [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Take a Page from the Energy Utility Industry
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 8, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Adam Berrey – General Catalyst and the Startup Blender Blog For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Adam Berrey, entrepeneur-in-residence at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm with $1.4B under management, and also writes the Startup Blender Blog on topics of [...]
ZapThink Startup Insights: Derisking IT technology is not a way to achieve any goal
ZapThink Startup Insights Week of June 1, 2010 Funding Insights Interview: Woody Benson, Prism VentureWorks For this issue, ZapThink spoke with Woody Benson at Prism VentureWorks, a venture firm founded in 1996 with over $1.25 Billion under management. Woody has been in Venture Capital for over a decade, with the last 5 years in digital [...]
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