I was asked to put together a group of interesting folks to discuss issues related to, the oft abused moniker, Web 2.0 for the TiECon East event held in Waltham, MA on May 30.
I picked people that I thought were the most interesting and capable of having a conversation about the future of [...]
I had the great pleasure of hanging out with some TechStars entrepreneurs last week in Boulder while I was out there. I watched them practice their pitches to a closed group of people. Then I had beers with a handful of smart (and funny) dudes who are building some really neat applications.
There’s [...]
I found myself recently doing a ton of Google searches using something like “liquidation preference site:feld.com” or “implicit site:avc.blogs.com” and I realized that I should just create a Google Co-op search using these sites instead.
I was having a conversation with Rafer recently and he said something that clued me into the name of my new search engine: [...]
The Economist reports that 2006 was the year for mergers and acquisitions with a total value reaching $4 trillion.
THE urge to merge has never been stronger, nor satisfied more expensively, than it was in 2006. The total value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) around the world reached almost $4 trillion, beating the previous record, [...]
I never thought that Bill Cosby would provide me with startup advice, but he has. I have to remind myself sometimes how important it is for my startup to do one thing and do it well.
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
Sanjay Kumar, the former CEO of Computer Associates, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his part in the accounting scandal that shaved billions of dollars from the company’s market cap.
He plead guilty for his part in masterminding a 35–day accounting month that also allowed for software sales to occur during a given [...]
The NY Times is reporting that sentencing for Sanjay Kumar, former head of CA, is being delayed again to October 30 in order to allow prosecution to enter into testimony the amount of “economic harm” caused by Kumar’s actions that resulted in a $2.2B accounting scandal.
The public has no sympathy, nor should they, for former [...]
Chris wrote about diversity recently in a post entitled “The Future of White Boy clubs” in reference to “The Future Of Web Apps” conference held in San Francisco. Chris writes very eloquently about his feelings on the subject:
There’s something important here that needs to be impressed upon us white boys by a white boy — one who happens [...]
Sanjay Kumar, former Computer Associates CEO, has been given a month long stay from his scheduled sentencing which was to occur on September 12. The stay was granted at the request of his defense.
Sentencing for Stephen Richards, former CA sales exec, who plead guilty with Kumar will be sentenced on October 16th.
As an aside, [...]
Poor Patricia Dunn. She’s being butchered by the blogosphere and the mainstream media. But, rightly so. She was caught spying on her board members and journalists.
The basic facts are these: HP’s general counsel, at the request of its board, hired an outside investigative agency to determine who on the board had been leaking information to [...]
Sept 11 is a day of remembrance, but the 12th yields an exciting event. I’m almost unnaturally excited in my hopes that Sanjay Kumar gets a long prison sentence. The former Computer Associates (CA) chief will be sentenced on September 12 for obstruction of justice and securities fraud.
We need continued demonstration that corporate misgivings will [...]
I have been writing about software for enterprises for a long time. Some of that writing focused on the new era of applications and some of it was more focused on the traditional side. In either case, I felt that it needed it’s own life rather than continue to be mixed with things like my [...]
I should start a blog called “Khosla Watch” because it appears that I have a man crush. I said appears. Some of the handwritten notes in the article entited “What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial” are priceless. Priceless gems such as “typical MBA horseshit” in reference to a suicide quadrant and then “commie horseshit” marks an entire [...]
Business 2.0 put out their list of “The 50 people who matter now,” but they failed to mention Joe Tucci, CEO Of EMC, while including a bunch of other semi-important tech people in my opinion. And I don’t have that opinion from simply having worked for EMC. He’s on a warpath, determined to build a [...]
Vinod Khosla did an interview with Dateline NBC that you should watch if you’re interested in how America will relinquish dependence on foreign oil sources in the future by using ethanol rather than traditional petroleum based fuel sources.
One’s imagingation can run wild when thinking about all the countries that could emerge as future fuel heavy-weights [...]