InfoChachkie
APRIL 1, 2013
How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems , knows the answer and he delights in telling the story of how MySQL ate Oracle's lunch and dinner. In my humble opinion, this is advice young entrepreneurs cannot hear often enough.
socalTECH
APRIL 18, 2014
Todd Davis: Today, communications between manufacturing, suppliers, contractors, and end users is disjointed, lacks context, and requires lots of telephone calls, messages, and emails. Todd Davis: I''m a veteran of Oracle, and had been CEO of an equipment finance company for the construction industry globally. READ MORE>>.
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socalTECH
JULY 23, 2009
How much competition is there in this space with people like Oracle, SAP, etc? You'd think that SAP would have a module, or surely Oracle has a module. So, we've build a task manager module which tracks thigns that need to be done, to make sure multiple people sign off on documents, validate when they're done, send an email alert, etc.--all
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 3, 2010
I know because many entrepreneurs I spend time with I can tell are in their own brains when we’re meeting rather than trying to understand what my position is. You’re in sales mode. They don’t handle Twitter feedback, emails or IM. That stuck with me long before I was ever a CEO (aka chief salesman).
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2009
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 14, 2016
If you look at the marketing cloud, at companies like Salesforce, Oracle, and Adobe, they are providing the consumer marketing cloud. Of course, there are follow up emails, but during an event is the next big chunk. It's stupid to say you don't have competitors. But, none of them have event management.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.
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