Another Texas VC

While talking to a friend I was asked who the major players in enterprise software are. I couldn’t really find any decent web pages to answer that question, so here is my weak attempt to put together a list. Suggestions on improving this list are welcome! ·         System Integrators ($53B) o   Accenture ($6.3B)o   IBM ($6B)o   [...]

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Forrester put out a report today highlighting the potential of Web 2.0 technologies in the enterprise. I have been excited about this potential since meeting Drew Larsen, whose product SAVO does just that in the Sales space. I have always been a bit skeptical about Forrester because of their dismal track record at predicting trends [...]

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I had the pleasure of grabbing coffee with Eric Olson yesterday in Evanston. Eric recently joined the team at DFJ Portage specializing in consumer web plays after a successful run at Feedburner. Eric is also the cofounder of Tech cocktail, a meetup for technology enthusiasts, bloggers and anyone else in traditionally underserved technology markets (think [...]

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I have experimenting for the past few weeks with the OpenID platform. I love the concept in theory, one secure set of credentials to use on the web to avoid having 50 different log ins and passwords. OpenID avoids the typical holdup problems associated with these efforts by not centrally administering the credentials, but rather [...]

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Sorry for the delay in posting. My MS keyboard’s “m” key stopped working, making it very difficult for me to write anything from home while my laptop was in dock mode. I performed minor surgery on it this evening and fixed the issue. Last week I had the pleasure of chairing the Web 2.0 panel [...]

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