Why 2011 May Be The Year For a Sustainable IPO Market
The IPO market may seem like a dim and distant picture for most entrepreneurs in the hardscrabble world of an early stage start-up…
Articles by Bernard Lunn
Wed, 29 December 2010
Tue, 16 November 2010
10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups
I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back…
Wed, 3 March 2010
Is XBRL The Key To Escaping Small Cap Hell?
Small cap hell is where you end up in about six months after your IPO, when all the high fives and champagne have receded into a distant…
Fri, 19 February 2010
Yammer: The Story Behind Their SaaS Traction
It looks like the joke may have been on me. When Yammer debuted from TC50 in 2008 I posted a very negative story. That is unusual. I am an…
Fri, 12 February 2010
How Much Venture Capital Should You Raise For Your SaaS Venture?
The short answer is "as much as you need". The more tactical answer is "as much as you can raise cheaply". The latter is a pragmatic view…
Wed, 20 January 2010
Study: SaaS Pricing Is Still Opaque And Freemium Is Rare
If you are building a SaaS (Software as a Service) venture, you should be thinking hard about your pricing strategy. It may be the single…
Sat, 5 December 2009
Technical Q&A With FAROO Founder
About 18 months ago, we wrote about an obscure search startup from Germany called FAROO. We believed that its radical alternative, using…
Sat, 28 November 2009
XBRL: Accounting Geeks Get Radical
It is not often that something as deeply geeky as XBRL gets onto the front page of Wired magazine. Daniel Roth's superb article about…
Thu, 26 November 2009
Creathor Venture: European VC Moving to Federated Model for Global Expansion (RWS Interview)
Creathor Venture is a 25-year-old venture capital firm based in Germany and Switzerland. That makes it unusual. In 1984, when it started…
Mon, 2 November 2009
Microsoft Embraces Open Source (in the Online Ad Business)
It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has…
Wed, 28 October 2009
Email + CRM + LinkedIn + Twitter = Hustler's Power Drill
Those of us who make a living by making things happen (i.e. who hustle) know that it is a people game. All of the tools in the world won't…
Tue, 27 October 2009
Calendaring, Scheduling Meetings: Timebridge CEO Interview Reveals Strategic Importance of This Space
We have looked at Calendaring many times (such as in our round-up of 10 players). In our own work, we have started working with both…
Wed, 14 October 2009
Google Should Stop Playing Around With Wave and Focus on Spreadsheet
Disclosure: I didn't get an early invitation, so this is not a first-hand review of Google Wave. But from what I know now, I don't want an…
Fri, 2 October 2009
Morpheus: Y Combinator-Like Incubator in India (RWS Interview)
Morpheus describes itself as "a gang of serial entrepreneurs and around 40 startup founders" who are "trying to make a small contribution…
Mon, 28 September 2009
Twitter and Facebook Investment Terms and Game Plans
There is a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about the recent $100 million investment in Twitter at a $1 billion valuation, but most of it…
Tue, 22 September 2009
Trading Scarcity: Is This the Killer App for the Real-Time Web?
Most platforms gain traction through a killer app. In the second generation of real time, that killer app was market data for financial…
Fri, 18 September 2009
T-Mobile's Effective and Quietly Disruptive Wi-Fi Phone
There are those old-fashioned folks who still prefer to talk by phone, believing that "synchronous audio communication" is sometimes…
Where Is the Real-Time Web Message Bus?
Real-time computing is not new. This is the third generation of real-time: • First generation: was done on a single processor…
Tue, 15 September 2009
VC Series A Web Tech Deals in August
Today is the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, which triggered the financial meltdown. That was when ReadWriteWeb started…
Fri, 11 September 2009
Swiss Precision Meets Messy Innovation
The Swiss love precision. You can see it in their watches and reliable trains. You can see it in their founding myth, the story of William…
Thu, 10 September 2009
Do You Speak Global Innovation?
We at ReadWriteWeb believe that innovation is a global business (as we noted in an earlier post on the Global Innovation Graph). The…
Wed, 2 September 2009
Congratulations! What's Next?
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. You did it…
Tue, 25 August 2009
When and How Founders Should Hire a Professional CEO
This is one post/chapter in a serialized book called Startup 101. For the introduction and table of contents, please click here. There…
Mon, 17 August 2009
Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 4
In this fourth part of our investigation into the ongoing changes in the book publishing business, we look at the author's point of view…
