The “Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile
19 Feb 2012 10:12pm GMT We are in a whole new world of platforms, a post-PC era, which I’d more aptly describe as the always/everywhere era, finally, and that means a whole new set of opportunities. Add to it the fact that because of a variety of factors too numerous to cover here, the cost of experimentation has gone down dramatically (one can start a web startup or write an Android app with no more than a student credit card!) and raw computing power is taken for granted. What you get as a result are the...
Great Acquisitions! Now Put a Fork in ERP
19 Feb 2012 7:26pm GMT Everyone is applauding Oracle and SAP’s cloud acquisitions — RightNow, SuccessFactors, and now Taleo. But the biggest cheers are coming from SAP and Oracle’s cloud competitors, salesforce.com and Workday. Because with these acquisitions, Oracle and SAP have effectively validated the cloud and sounded the death knell for ERP (enterprise resource planning). Why? Because SAP and Oracle are acquiescing to the cloud, yet they have no strategy to get their customers there. If SAP...
Why Your Next Board Member Should Be A Woman
19 Feb 2012 6:01pm GMT Good questions have been asked lately of tech companies without gender diversity on their boards of directors. While women comprise 51% of the population, they make up only 15.7% of Fortune 500 boards of directors, less than 10% of California tech company boards, and 9.1% of Silicon Valley boards. Why should we care? For one, women are the power users of many products and it’s just smart business to have an understanding of key customers around the table. Could you imagine a game company...
Asana and Orchestra Help Me Slowly Regain Control of Email
19 Feb 2012 4:00pm GMT This is not a rant against email. There are plenty of those out there. This is a story of hope. It sounds nuts, but I really enjoy email, though I realize I’m in the tiny minority and that it’s legitimately unmanageable for many, especially those that don’t use interfaces that automatically thread messages by subject or label. The complaints against email are universal: Lines of lines of emails accumulate with the force of a snowball racing down the side of a mountain during...
GoodRx Grabs $1M+ From SV Angel, Founders Fund & More To Help You Find Cheap Prescription Drugs
19 Feb 2012 2:16am GMT Like many other services, goods, and commodities, prescription drug prices can vary widely depending on location and what particular vendor is offering them. Launching last September at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco was GoodRx, a service that's aiming to bring some transparency back to prescription drug purchases by bringing some sophisticated price comparison technology to the everyday consumer. GoodRx was co-founded by Scott Marlette and Doug Hirsch, both early employees of...