2011 marked another strong year for venture capital, but will it continue? By Peter Delevett pdelevett@mercurynews.com For the venture capital industry, 2011 was a year of superlatives — the highest level of investment in Internet companies since the dot-com bust and the highest level in cleantech ever. But it also was a year that ended [...]
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Personal Finance: YoBucko talks money for 20-something By Claudia Buck cbuck@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012 When it comes to managing money, there’s no lack of advice online, on everything from figuring out a budget to calculating your retirement plan. But for 20-somethings? Not so much. And that’s the concept behind YoBucko.com, a new personal [...]
Posted in Business models, Inetellectual Property, Investments, MoneyTree report, Technology on February 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Software startups reaped lions share of venture capital investment in fourth quarter By Peter Delevett pdelevett@mercurynews.com Posted: 02/18/2012 03:17:00 PM PST Related Stories Feb 19: 2011 marked another strong year for venture capital, but will it continue? Feb 18: VC funding chart, fourth quarter 2011 Maybe they should start calling it Software Valley. Venture [...]
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 [...]
