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Facebook and business software

February 26, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

This week, TechCrunch gave some PR space to Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce and what does he do? Asks the question: ‘Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?‘ If you’ve spent any number of years in business software you’d know this is an uncomfortable question. Benioff claims that he starts his day in Facebook. Sheesh – [...]

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Weekend musing: sponsor success

June 27, 2009 General

As we come towards the end of June it’s good to see some of this site’s sponsors doing really well or introducing new ideas to the market. I make no apology for pimping what they’re doing because they are pointing the way to where we’re all going to be: FreeAgent Central nominated for a gong [...]

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FreeAgent raises angel round

March 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Image via CrunchBase Times may be tough but FreeAgentCentral has raised an angel round that values the company at a tidy sum. As a former shareholder I’ve known about this for quite some period as Ed needed to speak with me as he closed out the deal. Although I am no longer associated with the [...]

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Microsoft's payroll blooper

February 22, 2009 General

msletter Publish at Scribd or explore others: The Microsoft haters were predictably out in force on TechCrunch, following apparent errors in calculating severance pay for at least some former employees culled in its recent cutback of 1,400 staff. Microsoft has acknowledged that errors have been made but has not quantified the extent. Much of the [...]

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Excessive internal linking is narcissistic

August 19, 2008 General

One of the problems I see with professionals is the extent to which they navel gaze in the deluded belief they are the fount of all accounting wisdom. It simply isn’t true. There’s always someone smarter than you and they probably work somewhere else. So it was with some sadness that I read Tim O’Reilly‘s [...]

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