Many of today’s hottest new enterprise technologies are centered around free, “open-source” technology. As a result, many big companies—from financial…
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Another Open-Source IPO Shows the Market Power of “Free” Software
Last week brought more evidence that open-source software has gone mainstream—and that the IPO market for business-focused tech companies is back. Ope…
AI Startups: Here’s Your Guide to Get Beyond the Hype and Drive a Commercially Successful Business
My LinkedIn and Twitter feeds are flooded with AI news these days, as are most popular news media outlets. And with good reason: McKinsey claimed in a…
So You’re A European, B2B Startup Hoping To ‘Hop The Pond’ And Grow? Here’s How
Some of the most prominent—and valuable—European technology companies right now are consumer-tech names: Think of Skype, Spotify, Supercell, Yandex an…
Radical Approaches to the Cybersecurity Skills Shortage
Every time a major security breach strikes, people are outraged by what they feel is the negligence and carelessness of the company responsible. “How …
Swipe Right For A Cloud Instance: How To Build Successful Software In A Low-Commitment World
In cities from San Francisco to New York, and Houston to Atlanta for that matter, we hear the buzz of easy, quick lifestyle choices these days. Just h…
How to Build a Business-Focused ‘Cloud-Commerce’ Marketplace for the Less-Sexy Economy
For consumers, huge new internet marketplaces have upended industries ranging from taxis (Uber) to hotels (Airbnb) and even some types of consumer loa…
Enterprise-IT Predictions for 2018: More Cloudy Skies, AI-Powered Chatbots and (Finally!) More IPOs
Many of us will remember 2017 for big, global events—huge hurricanes, continuing wars and, of course, the ascension of a certain orange-haired, former…
Is Your Data Lake Like the Library of Babel?
In 1941, renowned Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges published a short story entitled “The Library of Babel.” The story tells the tale of a universe c…
What Washing Dishes, Driving a Truck, and Working in a Cemetery Taught Me About the Power of “Blue-Collar” Software
These days, I work as a venture capitalist in a glass-walled office and wear dress shirts to work. But it wasn’t so long ago that I wore an orange neo…
Forget the Firewall: Better Application Security Could Have Prevented the Equifax Breach
Security breaches at big companies and government agencies, including the recent disaster at Equifax, continue to dominate the headlines. One importan…