Article from GigaOm. “Two Silicon Valley-backed Bay Area companies appear to be the tech vendors behind Apple’s new sizable and pioneering clean power push at its massive data center in North Carolina. Last week it was revealed that solar panel maker SunPower will provide Apple with panels for a 20 MW solar farm, while I [...]
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Valley clean energy innovation can prosper, it just takes awhile
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, cleantech, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Technology, tagged apple, Bloom Energy, boic, cleantech, Cypress Semiconductor, Electric Power Research Institute, Fuelcell, Gerbsman Partners, john Doerr, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Powerlight, SunPower, Total, VC on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process”
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Distressed Intellectual Property, Distressed IP, Gerbsman Partners, Inetellectual Property, Intellectual capital, National Venture Capital Association, NVCA, Venture Capital on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Advantages of a “Date-Certain” Mergers and Acquisition Process Over a “Standard Mergers and Acquisitions Process” Every venture capital investor hopes that all of his investments will succeed. The reality is that a large percentage of all venture investments must be shut down. In extreme cases, such a shut down will take the form of [...]
5 stories to read this weekend
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Economy, FaceBook, Intellectual capital, internet, IPO news, Market research, tagged 6Wunderkinder, apple, boic, facebook ipo, Gerbsman Partners, iPad on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from GigaOm. Don’t get mad at me for not finding seven stories for you to read this weekend. I have been busy with some other stuff and as a result I have not been able to spend as much time reading as I normally do. Regardless, here is an abbreviated recommendation list. Hope you [...]
Oracle-HP: How things got this bad
Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Intellectual capital, internet, Investments, Java, Market research, Strategy, Sun Microsystems, Technology, tagged Autonomy, boic, Exadata, Gerbsman Partners, hp, Oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, Sun SPARC on February 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from GigaOm. For many years, Oracle and HP co-existed quite happily. They collaborated on the first Exadata in 2008, for example. Former HP CEOs Carly Fiorina, then Mark Hurd, keynoted at Oracle OpenWorld. HP appeared to have supplanted Sun Microsystems as Oracle’s hardware BFF for a while. Everything was copacetic. Now the two companies are arch-rivals [...]
Companies that would do best without venture capital
Posted in Business models, Economy, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Strategy, tagged boic, Gerbsman Partners, Investment strategy, VC on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Dan Shapiro. “I just got the following email. Subject: Small taxi company looking to expand Hello, I run a small taxi company outside of Boston Massachusetts. My community has been targeted for casino development and I am looking to expand my business. Could you possibly provide some advice on how to find venture capital? [...]
