BladeLogic Interview

November 28, 2008

I had the pleasure of recently speaking with fellow Rutgers alum Dev Ittycheria. Dev is President of the $1.2B Enterprise Service Management business and a member of the executive management team at BMC Software. He was formerly CEO and co-founder of BladeLogic, a data center automation software company acquired by BMC Software for $800M earlier [...]

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SaaS Earnings Update

October 11, 2008

Update : I’ve reposted some of my findings in the spreadsheet below. Let’s just say Google Finance isn’t the most reliable.

How are public SaaS companies faring in this economic environment?
Here are some stats that I put together based on Q2 ‘08 earnings data from ten SaaS companies, including SalesForce.com, DealerTrack, NetSuite, Taleo, Omniture, Vocus, [...]

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Sequoia Capital’s Survival Advice

October 10, 2008

Sequoia Capital recently made a presentation to its portfolio companies about how to try to survive an economic downturn. Definitely worth a read.

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: depression recession)

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SaaS & IT Spending

September 27, 2008

Research firm Datamonitor released its annual survey of IT spending this week and predicted that 50% of organizations will be freezing their 2009 IT budgets with another 13% anticipating cuts. Given the turmoil with the nation’s economy and troubled financial markets this didn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
So, how does this affect SaaS companies [...]

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Virtualization Management

July 19, 2008

I’ve been thinking about Virtualization Management for a while so I thought it would be a good time for a blog post, especially since my blogging pace has steadily declined to a crawl.
Virtualization has been all the buzz these days in the enterprise. Gartner expects the number of virtual machines to grow from less [...]

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Passion and Your Career

March 30, 2008

I’ve been reflecting on a few recent conversations with some former colleagues lately. Inevitably, the conversations always turn to career goals. This is a common theme in mid-career professionals and roughly those in their late 20’s/early 30’s. Why? Most mid-career types have been in the workforce for a few years, say 5 to 10, and [...]

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Bringing Down the House

March 8, 2008

One of my favorite books, Bringing Down the House, is finally getting released on the silver screen. For those who don’t know, it’s based on the true story of some MIT card counters that took on the casinos. Exciting read. Definitely check it out.
Here’s info on the movie at IMDB.

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NY Giants Win!!!

February 3, 2008

The Giants just won the Super Bowl. Wow, what a game! The whole team played great – the entire defense, Eli, David Tyree, Steve Smith, the list goes on and on. Overall a great win. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while.

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Teams vs. Markets

December 27, 2007

Would you rather invest in or build a startup around a great team or a great market? Obviously, it would be advantageous to have both, but that’s usually the exception. It’s a question that’s been debated for quite some time in the Startup / VC world, and doesn’t have a clearcut answer. For this post, [...]

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On-Demand Business Intelligence

December 23, 2007

One of the most exciting developments within Business Intelligence (BI) software is the emergence of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or On-Demand solutions. More and more vendors are offering their software via an on-demand model. SaaS has touched virtually every category of BI, including but not limited to analytics, dashboards, data mining and data warehousing. Customers want shorter [...]

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