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 [...]
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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 »
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? [...]
How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
Posted in Investments, FaceBook, Board Of Intellectual Capital, Gerbsman Partners, Market research, Business models, Strategy, Economy, google, internet, tagged Economy, boic, Gerbsman Partners, apple, iphone, Jobs, corning, iMac, NeXt on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article from NYTimes. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in Californialast February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the [...]
