Editor’s note: Hemant Taneja is managing director at General Catalyst. Follow him on Twitter @htaneja. Every time I pick up my iPhone lately, I’ve been asking myself: Why do we call this a “phone”? If my “phone” habits are any indicator, we shouldn’t be calling this a phone at all. On the iPhone, I don’t...
You’ve probably seen the apps used by The Washington Post and Yahoo! on Facebook that require you to install something before you can read an article shared by one of your friends from their sites. Not only is it annoying, it just means that these publications want access to your personal information so it...
Editor’s note: Jon Bischke is a founder of Entelo and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter @JonBischke. CRM is a massive business. At least an $8 billion industry according to Gartner. Salesforce, the company you think of when you hear CRM (after all, it is their ticker symbol) has a market cap north of $21 billion dollars. And while...
According to numerous tweets and a report by the BBC, the hacking group that refers to itself as “Anonymous” has targeted the Home Office website in the UK for takedown in response to government plans for extradition of Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon and TVShack’s Richard O’Dwyer back to to the United States. The BBC...
Virtualization Is Just the Halfway Point With the implementation of multiple virtual machines (VMs) running within the same physical host, the classic setup of one server per physical host was expanded to a many-to-one relationship, providing huge cost savings. But once that vast improvement to the classic one-to-one design had been found, the issues...
Editor’s note: Scott Edward Walker is the founder and CEO of Walker Corporate Law Group, a boutique corporate law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs. Check out his blog or follow him on Twitter as @ScottEdWalker. We are in the golden age of seed financing. Venture capital funds, seed funds, super angels, angel groups, incubators, and “friends...
Despite the fact that Nokia ended 2011 on a very low note worldwide, posting a $1.4 billion loss in the fourth quarter, a recent report shows that it happens to be the top selling smartphone manufacturer in the Middle East. Gulf News reports that a study from Gartner, analyzing last year’s mobile phone sales in the...
Editor’s note: Pokin Yeung founded two startups, GeckoGo and Askomatics, and is currently blogging and helping out various other startups. Follow her on Twitter @pokin. Just over a month ago, a random conversation with another startup founder over lunch turned into a full-blown research project. “You and I are both first-born children,” I mused to...
Websites Have to Get Better When you take content written by someone else, strip it of its chosen monetization methods, and present it back to readers without the publisher’s permission, that publisher is not going to be happy. Unfortunately for publishers, that’s exactly what many of the read-later apps are doing. But is this...
Social sites, whether they are discovery platforms, blogs, or forums, are tight knit communities built on trust. These communities can understandably be sensitive to advertising. However, even the most buzz-worthy social media darlings need revenue to fuel their growth and help fund administration, support and development. Without revenue (or the potential of revenue for...