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How to handle being fired

How to handle being fired

By Dan Morrill on March 30, 2011

The recession still blazes on, and people are still losing their jobs right and left. A friend of mine was recently fired and as we sat drinking coffee in our other office, the question was “how do I handle this?” Handling being fired is not easy, it is not meant to be easy; it is […]

Posted in Business | Tagged employment, firing, hiring, Penelope Trunk, recession, self-employed, silicon valley, unemployment

Accenture Survey Identifies Companies’ Innovation Improvement Opportunities

Accenture Survey Identifies Companies’ Innovation Improvement Opportunities

By Hutch Carpenter on November 13, 2009

Accenture released a survey of 630 executives at large U.S. and U.K. companies, Innovation: a Priority for Growth in the Aftermath of the Downturn. The report discusses enterprises’ view toward innovation during the Great Recession. This information in general is useful for anyone following the field. Just as interesting are the nuances that come out […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged accenture, collaboration, downturn, e20, economy, enterprise 2.0, executive survey, innovation, recession

Reverse Brain Drain to India and China

By Dan Morrill on October 19, 2009

America is a great place to start a company, there are no questions about that, and when Governments were busy making it harder to start a company, many immigrants came to America. Reports state that 52% of all Silicon Valley companies were started by Immigrants, and we have HP and Google as prime examples of […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged brain drain, education, hiring, immigration, job market, math, recession, science, STEM, Technology

U, V, W and Informational Dark Matter

U, V, W and Informational Dark Matter

By Guest Authors on August 24, 2009

Nouriel Roubini, affectionately nick-named “Dr. Doom” for his predictions regarding our recent financial meltdown, has a new op-ed piece out that spells out the risk of a “double dip” recession. It’s worth the read, whether you’re into macro-economics or not, as it very quickly spells out the risks of what has been a pretty rosy […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged double dip recovery, economy, heisenberg, informational dark matter, recession, recovery, roubini, uncertainty

What’s the Influence of the Current Economic Crisis on American Culture

What’s the Influence of the Current Economic Crisis on American Culture

By Dan Morrill on July 15, 2009

Image by Lone_f via Flickr Andy Sack who is one of the more interesting VC people in Seattle got asked the question “What has been the influence/impact of the current economic crisis on American Culture”. In all this is a very good question to ask just about anyone as we have seen our friends and […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged american culture, economy, Health care, project management, recession, Reserve currency, Russia, seattle

TiEcon 2009 – The Bold Entrepreneur

TiEcon 2009 – The Bold Entrepreneur

By Zoli Erdos on May 15, 2009

I don’t particularly like large conferences, and I’ve made no secret of it… yet here I find myself discussing yet another one: TiEcon 2009, starting in these very minutes in Santa Clara, CA.   One of the differentiators TiEcon has is just how affordable it is: it’s rare to find a two–day conference so action packed […]

Posted in Marketing, Strategy | Tagged conferences, Entrepreneurship, networking, powerconnect, recession, silicon valley, startups, tie.org, tie50, tiecon | 1 Response

Recession Is Good For Cloud Computing – Microsoft Agrees

Recession Is Good For Cloud Computing – Microsoft Agrees

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 12, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife When the whole world was gloomy with onset of current recession, we (the members of cloud computing community) are happy about it in a way. Every single cloud computing evangelist will tell you that recession is good for cloud computing. The reason is obvious CapEx is converted into OpEX […]

Posted in Enterprise, Small business, Strategy | Tagged capex, cloud computing, Economics, economy, microsoft, opex, recession, saas | 6 Responses

It Is Not A Bloodbath In The Clouds

It Is Not A Bloodbath In The Clouds

By Krishnan Subramanian on January 19, 2009

Image by Laughing Squid via Flickr Steve Rubel, in his blog, has a new post with somewhat provocative title. He talks about recent shutting down of some of the Cloud based applications and calls it “Bloodbath in the Clouds”. A part of his post is a bit of exaggeration but he has some valid points. […]

Posted in General | Tagged recession, saas, steve rubel

Jott Wants Your Lunch Money and it’s OK

Jott Wants Your Lunch Money and it’s OK

By Zoli Erdos on January 13, 2009

Would You Spend Your Lunch Money on a Web 2.0 Service?  –  I asked in October as part of a recession-related series.  The key point was that software startups to turn towards business, offer value and charge for it. The genius in the Freemium model is that it allows new services to gain traction, essentially […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged business model, freemium, jott, lunch money, penny gap, recession, saas pricing, software pricing, startups, web 2.0 | 2 Responses

So Is It a Good or Bad Time to Found a Startup After All?

So Is It a Good or Bad Time to Found a Startup After All?

By Zoli Erdos on December 17, 2008

Now is a Great Time to Join or Found a Startup –says Bob Warfield, friend and fellow Enterprise Irregular. Now is a Terrible Time to Join or Found a Startup  -says Charlie Wood, friend and fellow Enterprise Irregular. Now what?  Who is right?  And the debate does not stop here, it sparked a pretty good […]

Posted in Small business, Strategy | Tagged employment, Entrepreneurship, outbound marketing, recession, self-marketing, startups, unemployment, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

Would You Spend Your Lunch Money on a Web 2.0 Service?

Would You Spend Your Lunch Money on a Web 2.0 Service?

By Zoli Erdos on October 16, 2008

Today I’m continuing a mini-series started 3 weeks ago with the intro: How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession which I wrote before the bottom fell out of all markets in the world, and recession-doom-talk became popular.  Since one of the key conclusions in the first piece was for software startups to turn towards business, […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business model, freemium, penny gap, recession, saas pricing, software pricing, startups, web 2.0 | 3 Responses

Software Startups: How to Sell to Enterprise in a Recession

By Zoli Erdos on October 15, 2008

Three weeks ago when I wrote How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession I was very careful using the “Big R” word – since then the bottom fell out,  the doomsday-chorus started.  On my personal blog I suggested we should Turn the Doom-talk into Constructive Business Model Ideas, and that’s what I intend to do […]

Posted in Enterprise, Strategy | Tagged enterprise sales, Entrepreneurship, pull-model, recession, software sales, startups, vc funding, venture capital | 1 Response

Cloudy News from Startup-Land

Cloudy News from Startup-Land

By Zoli Erdos on October 9, 2008

Just because I wrote How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession doesn’t mean I’m naive enough to declare that all SaaS businesses are recession-proof – they just have a better model to weather the storm, which is now inevitable.  VC Preps Portfolio Companies for Survival Mode OM Malik, who is now a VC Partner himself […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged business model, defrag, entellium, Entrepreneurship, management, netbooks, recession, saas, startups, vc funding, venture capital, viewpath | 6 Responses

Free is Dead, Long Live Freemium

By Zoli Erdos on October 6, 2008

3 weeks ago we launched CloudAve in turbulent times, so barely a week later I ended up writing about How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession.  The summary: go where the money is, and that’s businesses (“Enterprise” vs. consumer, even if it means small business) deliver value – useful functionality that improves business charge for […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged advertising, business model, clickonomy, enterprise sales, enterprise software, Entrepreneurship, freemium, recession, saas, sap, startups | 5 Responses

"SaaS as Recession-proofing Software" Theme Picking Up

"SaaS as Recession-proofing Software" Theme Picking Up

By Zoli Erdos on September 27, 2008

It looks like I may have started ( actually, just re-started) a trend discussing How Software Can Be Resilient to Recession.  Sramana Mitra @ Forbes talks about 'SaaS-ing' Back At The Economy:  Some of the robustness of SaaS companies comes from the fact that the sector caters heavily to small businesses. This is because their […]

Posted in Enterprise, Small business, Strategy | Tagged bpm, Forbes, intalio, on-demand, recession, recession-proof, saas, smb, sme, software market | 2 Responses

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