A Post Startup Execs Should Forward to Your Spouse or Partner. 12 Tips for Making it Work
I recently wrote a post about how to manage relationships when you’re at a startup or are busy executive. It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). I had images in my brain of all of the stresses I had placed on my wife [...]
Enterprise Connect and Innovation Showcase
Coming up is the Enterprise Connect Conference (March)- unquestionably the biggest UC event of the year. The conference, used to go by the name VoiceCon, takes place every Spring at the Gaylord Palms Hotel in Orlando. The conference is put on by TechWeb, the same masters of conversation behind NoJitter.com. I typically don’t leave the hotel [...]
Kim Dot Com’s new Mega site has XSS Security Holes
Any new site, not just Mega is going to have security holes, and reports have surfaced in Twitter, Reddit, and over on ZDNet that Mega has a couple of persistent XSS security holes that are going to make users days a little bit harder. Beyond the crypto issues that you can read on ZDNet, persistent [...]
SAP Business Suite on HANA, Because Big Data is a Stupid Term
I spent a lot of time last year talking with vendors about big data and it’s ramifications for both the tech industry and the economy at large. Often these conversations centered around one or another vendor’s use of the big data term as the buzzword de jour, regardless of whether anything they do even vaguely [...]
7 Steps to Getting to Cash-Flow Positive Faster (in SaaS)
There are pros and cons, in these days of Fat Start-ups, to being cash-flow positive. In an ideal world, you’d experience both hyper-growth, and free cash flow from almost Day 1. The reality is though, in SaaS, especially if you are sales-driven, that’s often gonna be tough. You’ll need some capital to get either off [...]
