Like Kickstarter-for-Companies, There’s Fundry

I’ve gotten hooked on Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site for creative projects (art, movies, etc). It’s awesome that a community of people with shared vision can quickly & easily come together, dollar-by-dollar, to collectively “kickstart” the project of a perfect stranger.  To me, Kickstarter says a lot about human nature and goodwill, non-monetary rewards, and the desire to [...]

Digital Samba Earns Top Spot in VC Contest

Woot woot! Huge congrats to Digital Samba EU on a Top 5 finish out of 900+ companies at the 2010 Eurecan European Venture Contest.  If you’re in the market for enterprise web conferencing server software, or just need something small to host a few online meetings, visit our site.  You can even try the latest [...]

Naval R on Entrepreneurs & Investors

Lots of good stuff in this interview, like when he discusses how the emotional temperament of entrepreneurs is different from that of an investor.  Sorry, I’d embed the video here, but WordPress won’t let you do that from this site.

Pennsylvania High-Tech Tax Incentives

Today, the Wall Street Journal published an article highlighting key takeaways from ”Growing Pennsylvania’s High Tech Economy: Choosing Effective Investments” (click here to get the full 104-page report).  I won’t paraphrase it; just click the WSJ link above… or, of course, skim the report itself.  Not sure there are many surprises here, although I think the report [...]

Overcoming Common Pitfalls of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption

We recently read “14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail”, by ZDNet’s Dion Hinchcliffe. Excellent reminder of common pitfalls associated with technology projects in modern organizations. As the makers of OnSync, clearly an Enterprise 2.0 platform for web conferencing & communications, it seems counterintuitive that we’d discuss the prospect of failure related to a technology [...]

The Netflix Recipe for Business Success

Netflix is more than a convenient and timely service – it’s a business with incredible economics and a track record of solid financial fundamentals.  Warren Buffet believes that companies with great economics essentially run themselves*, but I have to believe that the Netflix culture has helped. Here’s an overview of what Netflix believes about their [...]

SharesPost Marketplace for Private Equity

Startup execs and entrepreneurs, & even ground-floor employees, know what it’s like to have net worth trapped in private equity. Regardless of the value of the enterprise in which you hold shares, the market for them is often limited or non-existent, and that’s really frustrating when you want or need to unload them. Liquidity is, [...]

IRS Boss Doug Shulman Speaks

I read an interview with IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman in USA Today this week. Couple of takeaways that I thought were interesting: a) He, along with 80% of Americans, uses a paid tax preparer to file his taxes. This, he admits, speaks volumes about the complexity of our tax code – one in which 2000+ [...]

The Start of a New and Exciting Chapter

If you haven’t already heard the news, last month marked the start of a new chapter for me, my Partners, & our entire team.  The PR is copy/pasted below, since most of the ones I’ve seen on the web are running in Spanish. Contact: PR & Media Relations Digital Samba USA +1 570 956 …. [...]