Archive for 2008
Thomas Weisel Research on 2009 IT budgets
30 December 2008As the calendar is about to turn to 2009, many of our software and IT hardware clients and VC partners will be wondering what is in store on the revenue front. Insight is on the way: Thomas Weisel’s Research team has reviewed the forecasts of a series of Infrastructure Software companies. Their [...]
Blog Facts part 2
29 December 2008On June 4th of 2007, we announced that we’d crossed the 1 million hit threshold for 2007 (see prior post “1 million hit milestone for 2007” June 4-07), with 25,000 unique visitors by that point in the year. Readers had come from 533 cities in 57 different countries over the prior 30 days (May 5-June [...]
CVCA letters to Messers Flaherty, Clement and Ignatief
26 December 2008As you’ve become increasingly aware, Canada is suffering from a crisis regarding the lack of start-up and venture capital (see prior post “Solving the Start-up & VC malaise part 2” February 6-08). The first public phase of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s efforts took place during the 2007 Ontario Provincial election [...]
Wi-Fi: Failed Revolutions and Real Solutions
23 December 2008Every few months, it seems, going back to the early 2000’s, someone writes an article discussing how the wireless connectivity technology commonly known as Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) has failed to live up to its early promise. Indeed, Wi-Fi has participated in several “revolutions” that failed to revolve. Recall the Wi-Fi “hotspot revolution” of 2002-2003. Or, [...]
Top Mistakes of the Year part 2
23 December 2008It’s already the 23rd. We are running out of time to complete the list of Top Mistakes of the Year (see prior post “Top mistakes of the year” November 20-08).
It is pretty clear that I was all over the map about Research In Motion’s trackball. First there was the useless lobbying of Jim [...]