Now What?
I Am blogging again, but on a new platform | Mark As Read |
I started blogging again a few months back.? My new Scott Maxwell Blog is here.? I expect that I will post again on this blog as well, but my new blogging platform is an OpenView Venture Partners firmwide platform and is integrated into the OpenView Website.? As with this blog, my new blog is mostly
Pruning keeps the plant Healthy | Mark As Read |
I wrote a post on how to get things Undone. Matt just undid something with WordPress and I like the metaphor that he used relating to pruning: "Pruning is an important and necessary step in growing roses. Pruning keeps the plant healthy. It promotes new growth, removes dead, broken or diseased canes and trains roses
A great Video on some significant shifts in the economy! | Mark As Read |
My aunt sent me a link to this video which contains a very powerful set of facts around the shift in economic power over time (nothing new here, but the facts are very powerful). Clearly, the current hot topics are around China and India given the size of their populations and the rate of
Announcing George Roberts! | Mark As Read |
We announced this morning that George Roberts has joined OpenView Venture Partners. I have been working with George for about 3 years on the Board of Scriptlogic Corporation where George has been a great advisor to both the board and management team. Over time, we have found that we are extremely well aligned
What do you make if you don?t understand your customer needs? | Mark As Read |
one result is here
Startling VC Statistics! | Mark As Read |
Don Dodge has done some great analysis in his post Venture Capitalists and Angels invest $40 Billion per year but see only $18B in exits. The bottom line is that it appears that the relationship between investments made by VCs vs. the exits that have been generated suggest pretty significant losses (unless the market
Is your UI intuitive enough? | Mark As Read |
This Video is a pretty funny reminder of the difficult time that users have as they try to learn how to use your product! It brings up some very good questions: Is your UI intuitive enough? Do you have "help" built into the product to reduce the need for manual support? Do you have easy approaches for
Employment 2.0 | Mark As Read |
WebWorker Daily has two recent posts about how the internet is leading to many new ways of making money (a living?) through your browser. I can't help but believe that they will have an endless stream of new pockets of opportunity to write about for years to come as the corporate value chain continues
The best video content delivery network on the planet! | Mark As Read |
With all of the new companies surrounding video these days, I felt compelled to point to a company that I haven't seen reviewed on TechCrunch (and ti is not in the product/company index). It is simply the best content delivery network on the planet! It is pretty amazing, and I can download songs,
How to get things UNdone! | Mark As Read |
We all have goals for thinks that we need to get done. When was the last time that you had a goal to undue something? If you are not careful (and even if you are) activities build up, particularly as your company grows and time moves on, which raises your level of complexity
How should Microsoft capitalize on its place in the food chain? | Mark As Read |
I read Don Dodge's post on Microsoft not suffering the innovator's dilemma and had a similar reaction to Robert Scoble's. I am a big fan of Microsoft and use their software every day on my Mac. It is great software from a great company full of great people. That said, the issue
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