Public Company – The Long Tail (Tale) of Litigation

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Life vs. Reality

Friends (and others) often ask Mary and me how much of what I’ve written in my novel hackoff.com is true and how much is fiction.More...

Public Company – The Beauty Contest

So you and your Board have decided to take your company public.  The market window is open; you don’t want your competitors to beat you to the money; you’ve always wanted to run More...

The First Rungs of the Ladder - Continued

There have been some excellent comments on my previous post about the lack of ent More...

The First Rungs of the Ladder

It’s tempting to blame the recent problems in France on some combination of disguised Gallic racism and Muslim militancy; tempting and probably partly right but not very useful and way too smug.More...

Bubble 2.0 – Why Not APIs?

Why wouldn’t a web service include an API (Application Program Interface)?  In my More...

Bubble 2.0 – It’s The APIs

API stands for Application Program Interface; you knew that, of course.  APIs are not new but they are crucial in knitting together the services and technologies of Web 2.0 (aka More...

Public Company – Deciding To Do It

How do you know when to go public?  When’s the right time for your IPO (initial Public Offering)?  The truth is it depends on whatever More...

Learning From Katrina (comment)

Any time that you’re writing about telephony, it’s good to listen to Aswath.& More...

hackoff.com down

UPDATE:  With a lot of help from our friends at Signal Advertising, we've moved to a new hosting site.  Most of you will now be able to read Friday's episode of hackoff.com and see how Larry and Donna got back from Boston to New Yor More...