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On Valuations And That “Bubble” Word

July 3, 2014

Business

Business, Capital Access - Financing, Development Stage, Financial services, Initial public offering, London, Sam Altman, Venture capital

There has been lots of discussions of late on whether or not we’re in the midst of a bubble that could result in another DotCom burst. Much of the discussion has been front-footed by those with vested interests –…

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Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

March 4, 2014

Business

box, dropbox, Facebook, Initial public offering, ipo, Silicon Valley, twitter, US Securities and Exchange Commission

Anonymous application Secret is an awesome tool. It allows people who would never be able to put their name to a statement to tell others something they know. It enables whistle blowers to tell the world of injustices that…

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SOASTA Builds an IPO War Chest

August 8, 2013

Business

CloudTest, Information technology operations, Initial public offering, Netflix, SOASTA, Tom Lounibos, TouchTest, Velocity

I’ve observed, commentated upon and helped out a number of startup companies over the years and have always been interested in the apparently random differences between companies that ride the rocket ship into commercial success and those who.. don’t.…

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Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates

January 17, 2012

Business

Dan Druker, Initial public offering, intacct, intuit, netsuite, quickbooks

Now this is an interesting piece of scuttlebutt that I was alerted to via a private message. It seems that Intuit have quietly begun pushing QuickBooks users who have “outgrown” their own solutions on to Intacct. This is particularly…

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Blog Archives

On Valuations And That “Bubble” Word

Did Box Just Cancel Its IPO? Or Did We Just See How Bad Anonymity Can Be?

SOASTA Builds an IPO War Chest

Intuit Pushing Intacct for QuickBooks Graduates