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Oracle, time to move on?

deal architect

After plenty of name calling at the trial in Las Vegas, both Oracle and Rimini Street sent a few of us reasonable sounding emails about the jury’s verdict awarding Oracle $ 50 million in damages. Oracle had asked for close.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I used my employee discount that last day to purchase a Compaq luggable computer and drove with my brother to Las Vegas. Email readers, continue here.] It brought back the memories of landing at LAX in 1974 with three suitcases and $1,900 to our names. I had no alternatives to success. And it wasn’t easy.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

If you attract names like these you’re bound to attract some media attention and then Chad Hurley dropped the bomb that he was leaving YouTube while he was at the f.ounders event. He began messaging and emailing me to try and get me to come out to the event, which he was now turning into a conference called Web Summit.

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Wired’s Gadget Lab Challenges Gizmodo To Sphero Marble Madness

Feld Thoughts

Toss in a BigDoor board meeting early in the week in Las Vegas and I’ll be getting my annual allotment of sin city in the first week of the new year. As Paul Berberian, the CEO of Orbotix said to me in email, “it doesn’t get much more fun that this.&#.

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

Why homepages becomes a Las Vegas visual experience Incrementally-developed UIs that are never refactored often turn into a Las Vegas visual experience over time. Ya know, something that looks like this: Why does Vegas look this way? You could have named it “User Experience Debt&#. what a coincidence.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

… and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. These people like the guy behind I will teach you to be rich, I forgot his name.

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The Right Way to Cancel a Meeting

Both Sides of the Table

It was a big industry luminary and he needed to see whether he could meet with this advisor.&# I can’t name who this advisor was or it would give the company away. In this case it warrants a personal email (or better yet a phone call) from you and a Herculean effort to reschedule the meeting. But it is a very big bigwig indeed.

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