Ben's Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement. Impatient and shortsighted shareholders forced Alfred to sell BEA to Oracle in January of 2008 for $8.5B.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
Now let’s take a look at the current version of the same inflation-adjusted data: Total venture capital raised from 2008-2010 was just shy of $55 billion, about 0.12% of the national GDP, with the trajectory of capital raising declining in each year. In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996.
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rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. You can also look for CTO consultants in the same places you’ll find a lead developer: local technology user groups or meetups, conferences, and online communities (especially open-source software communities).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.
blog.expensify.com
APRIL 24, 2012
But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece. Checkout [link].net
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