Slashdot article about Google Co-op.
Roll Your Own search engine.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
People Management
Keeping groups and individuals focused and aligned with corporate strategy enables organizations to execute to their fullest potential. Saba® helps organizations achieve this potential by providing an integrated Human Capital Management (HCM) solution that aligns their organization, develops their people and measures both individual and organizational performance. The result is “The Aligned Enterprise”, improving productivity and operational performance across the organization.
Saba Performance Suite is a powerful solution that provides the ability to track and manage the performance of both individuals and organizations.
Saba Performance Suite is a powerful solution that provides the ability to track and manage the performance of both individuals and organizations.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
General Info - Positioning For Equity
Slashdot interview with a VC.
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JBoss ended up selling to Red Hat for $420M which was 28 times trailing 12 month revenue ($15M). Red Hat is a publicly held company; its shareholders and management team are clearly comfortable with the open source business model of not owning your intellectual property and valuing the company based upon unit marketshare and support and service revenue. Unit marketshare is a proxy for long term revenue because if the number is large it indicates a lot of customers; the shareholders are betting the management team can figure out how to get revenue from customers over time (ie by potentially introducing new product and services).
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In the consumer internet space, we are looking for initial adoption by consumers. In the enterprise space, we want real businesses that have evaluated the product and would be willing to buy the product if it were available.
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Most software companies consist of intellectual property (IT), but more importantly are the skills of the founders. There are many challenges both from a technical and business perspective that must be addressed by the team. So the founding team is key.
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JBoss ended up selling to Red Hat for $420M which was 28 times trailing 12 month revenue ($15M). Red Hat is a publicly held company; its shareholders and management team are clearly comfortable with the open source business model of not owning your intellectual property and valuing the company based upon unit marketshare and support and service revenue. Unit marketshare is a proxy for long term revenue because if the number is large it indicates a lot of customers; the shareholders are betting the management team can figure out how to get revenue from customers over time (ie by potentially introducing new product and services).
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In the consumer internet space, we are looking for initial adoption by consumers. In the enterprise space, we want real businesses that have evaluated the product and would be willing to buy the product if it were available.
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Most software companies consist of intellectual property (IT), but more importantly are the skills of the founders. There are many challenges both from a technical and business perspective that must be addressed by the team. So the founding team is key.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Pension Tracking
An advanced solution for pension administration, PensionPath manages the entire life cycle of pension administration, from new hire to retirement. The software also includes self-service tools that take the burden off HR while enhancing your employees’ understanding of the future value of their retirement benefits.
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