Technology Trends
Given that IT security is a $60 billion market, you might think that we have robust solutions for keeping enterprise networks and data protected. But you’d be wrong...
The imminent departure of Google Reader on July 1st of this year has created a rift in the future of online content curation. Competition among companies vying to fill the void...
The days of an enterprise feeling good about mobility leadership by piloting a mobile app or two are behind us. Survey findings show that the new norm for enterprise mobile...
There a bold piece by Marc Andreessen in PandoDaily announcing the "death of retail". As an extension to the theme of "software will eat the world" it's smart...
Introduction - Ever since Gartner released its projection that the cloud management market is expected to reach $3.3 billion in 2012, it has become increasingly hard to...
I’ve been enjoying my iPad Mini for a couple months month now. I thought seriously about getting a Nexus 7 (in fact gave one to my sister as a gift recently), but because...
2012 was a huge year for the content marketing space, and 2013 is likely to follow suit. A growing marketing tactic in both popularity and success, content marketing is being...
In our healthcare practice, we look to identify and invest in the biggest trends in the marketplace. So what is the largest healthcare trend today? If you ask healthcare...
Six billion SMS messages are sent per day, according to data from Forrester Research, most of them between friends or family members. But Stuart Levinson, formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence...
I did a NEDMA talk recently on how companies can focus marketing efforts through their mobile plans. The thesis of the talk was that in a world where everyone is accessing...
With Windows 8’s official release last week, many were shocked by the degree to which the new operating system departed from many longstanding Windows conventions...
On the heels of Google’s “disappointing” earnings announcement last Friday – they generated a whopping $10.8 billion in advertising revenues in Q3 2012, up 5% from...
In the world of Big Data, there has been a flurry of investments in the infrastructure layer. But activity on the analytic application layer -- i.e. using Big Data tools to solve...
Apple TV is an aberration from every other Apple product. Rather than being an all-in-one device, Apple TV is a component that plugs into televisions manufactured...
When I use the phrase ‘cool startup,’ what comes to your mind? Facebook? Instagram? Twitter? For me, one of the coolest startups in the world is Recorded Future...
In the wake of the Pinterest round valuing the company at $1.5B from the Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten, it is hard not to notice that social and ecommerce have...
Last week the National Venture Capital Association (where I am on the Executive Committee) and Thomson Reuters announced the 2Q12 fundraising data for venture firms...
Last week I wrote about some of the common factors that have led great VC firms to stumble or even fade from existence entirely. I wanted to follow-up with some...
If you use Google search (and who doesn’t), you may have noticed that sponsored results (pay-per-click, or PPC, ads) have been taking over more and more of the search...
I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great...
Kickstarter and sites like it use the power of the internet to bring groups of people together to fund a wide variety of artistic endeavors, products, causes, and initiatives. These sites...
If you haven’t read my friend Tom Davenport’s book Competing on Analytics (Harvard University Press, 2007), you should. If you have read it, it’s a really good time to read it...
At Xconomy’s very successful Mobile Madness event a couple of weeks ago, I was struck by the vibrant mobile startup scene in Boston. Its not that mobile focused startups are new to...
Pinterest is the hot new thing. The new kid on the blog. The new story in town. On hearing about it from multiple people, I decided to give it a shot. I actually had to wait to be let in...
One of the paradoxes in building a large internet services or software company is the challenge of building a platform. That is, creating a technology base upon which your own...
At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good...
The stories at CES this week were many, but the biggest one was our friend, the TV. The magnitude of the CES show is stunning: 150k attendees striding through the bright lights...
On the heels of Google’s “disappointing” earnings announcement last Thursday – they generated a whopping $37.9 billion in revenues in 2011 – we conducted our own analysis to...
Recently, I’ve been putting my strategist hat on with regards to tablet ecosystems, both as a management consultant for CSMG, and in deciding where to devote energy as a...
I used to think that, as with Linux and web services in the early part of last decade, Android was going to be the mortar for the Internet of post PC devices— an essential ingredient...