HP’s Monkey Business
Bloomberg reports the HP Board is considering replacing CEO Leo Apotheker after less then a year tenure… poor Leo, after this and his previous gig as SAP CEO where he lasted 10 months, he might as well specialize on 10-month “turnaround” gigs. But it would be naive to think Leo could have initiated changes [...]
The Robot Menace Is Real
Longtime readers know that one of my greatest fears is of the inevitable robot rebellion. Check out these blog posts from over the years: USAF Continues Its Push Towards A Terminator Future (2009) Pentagon Turns To Robot Soldiers (2008) I, Robot (2005) (The most recent post even includes the following opening line: “Longtime readers know [...]
VCs with Personalities? Foundry Group FTW!
I was an entrepreneur for years. I must have pitched 40-50 VCs over the years. Possibly more. As I talked about on many occasions when I was an entrepreneur – and blogged publicly about - I learned a lot about my business and myself in these meetings. It was largely a positive experience. [Make sure to watch the [...]
Engineers, Designers and Product Managers – A Point of View
The “awesome triangle” that builds products consists of engineers, product managers and product designers. Here is a view of how each of the corners sees the other. Your comments, please…
How Does the Web See You? Find Your Internet Persona.
The other day I was watching a movie of my life. Well, sort of. Courtesy of Peter Kim who pointed to this experiment by MIT PhD student Aaron Zinman, I got to peek into the process of how his algorithm analyses my digital footprint: Wow, a lot of old activity, and I’m really surprised [...]
Startup Lifecycle a’la ABBA (Are We in a Bubble?)
Wow, who would have thought 1970′s supergroup ABBA were such good predictors of the Startup Economy:-) No kidding… it all started with a tweet by Box Lead Magician Aaaron Levie: @levie We must be in a tech bubble given how much ABBA I’m listening to. 24 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply My first though was: [...]
Computer Says No!
I’m having a very interesting debacle with United Airlines and Lufthansa. Long story short I flew to Slovenia on Lufthansa (a star alliance member). Somehow my 12k miles were added to a Lufthansa frequent flyer program instead of my United Mileage Plus program. After spending hours and hours on the phone the issue is still [...]
Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something [...]
