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Re: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Email

bmagierski — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:06:21 -0000

Andy - great post and I mostly agree with you, but also agree with Susan (itsinsider above) that we should not just bow to email b/c the existing leadership defaults to it.

I agree with Daniel P above that email needs to be embraced as part of e2.0. In fact, taking it a step further, those that figure out how to effectively embrace email will enable e2.0 to flourish.

I see two important uses for email - (1) It can be a UI into e2.0 (for some it will be THE UI), and again agree with Daniel that embedded links and media will be critical; being the UI means support for post and reply functionality via email. and (2) it should be an effective notification vehicle (which it is in any viable e2.0 technology today already).

BTW - took you up on connecting on Google Wave ... looking forward to Wave's promise.

Re: Venture capitalists hammer entrepreneurs: Valuations lowest in five years

bmagierski — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:29:44 -0000

@inforarbitrage and @max ... great points. Yes, it is about getting the right amount of capital to grow the business and ensuring the team that is charged with growing it is incentivized properly. The structuring of the round takes this into account while establishing pricing and terms to attract the investor to put in the right amount of capital. Complex, but necessary.

Re: links for 2008-12-29

bmagierski — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:26:00 -0000

Great to see you both here commenting on my lazy blogging .... del.icio.us auto posts of my links!

Indeed it's deja vu all over again with Wall St.

Re: links for 2008-11-24

bmagierski — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:47:07 -0000

Doh! Thanks, didn't notice that ... popped up on Google Alerts...

Re: Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week

bmagierski — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:34:04 -0000

Thanks Oliver - great comment. I agree that IBM page is not impressive in
the least, and the timeframe question for the big players is the real
question. All have a placeholder for sure because they have to, but many
lack commitment - in the ham & eggs analogy, they are the eggs. This
includes Sharepoint despite the civil defense force you mention. The
Sharepoint story seems to their typical play - rather than just have a
placeholder, they deliberately seed something inside their customers into
which will grow whatever needs to grow to dominate that part of the customer
infrastructure over whatever timeframe it takes them to figure it out.
I agree with your comment - we are seeing the natural evolution in market
development in play here - from Education to Custom Solution development to
more packaged Applications / Solutions. We're probably in between the
Education and Custom Solution development stage, with collaborative
processes now being defined in some enterprises / industries, and custom
solutions being developed on these infrastructure toolsets - wikis, blogs,
forums, social nets, Sharepoint : ) - and single sign-on.

Dennis is probably right, these infrastructure players get consolidated into
the infrastructure. Alongside that, new application / social enterprise apps
providers will emerge building the next generation apps leveraging this web
middleware. All in all, a fun time to be in the market.

Re: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

bmagierski — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:14:35 -0000

Fred - who are jon & ross, and what firm did they start?

Jeff - interesting thought. The acquisition corp would seem to need to have an underlying platform for simplifying the connective tissue between the various services it buys (single sign on, etc) but maybe not much more than that to start. The earn-outs are key for sure, or some other dividend paying ownership structure in the service purchased.