In early May, at Startup Camp in San Francisco, I had the chance to talk to two startups about their open source projects and how community plays a role in these projects. I have been thinking about the best kind of community we could create on the Microsoft...
Yesterday I met with Mary Holmes from Seattle's Zino Society, an interesting group whose mission, among hosting a high degree of wine-oriented social events, includes supporting the growth and success of entrepreneurial ventures. The Society's history...
Several weeks ago I read a short profile in the Wall Street Journal about Charles Wolf, a man who, while suffering left-brain damage from multiple bouts with cancer, has managed to build an investment portfolio that has beaten the DJIA and doubled its...
Microsoft announced yesterday the acquisition of Powerset, a natural language search engine. Techmeme has lots of stories about the acquisition. Today the stories are all a bout Microsoft/Yahoo potential deals . But lets take a step back and look at how...
Interesting rule of thumb based on military operational research performed by Frederick Lanchester during World War I: If you’re trying to enter an existing market where the dominant player has greater than 40% market share, you will need to spend at...
The news today was Marc Andreessen's joining the board of Facebook. From Netscape to Facebook, some interesting ironies along the way. Marc is also a founder of Ning, a social networking application. So why is this important to startups? It's because...
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen an uptick in news articles citing the lack of tech IPOs (my colleague Don Dodge wrote on this just days ago). Don mentioned some of the macro-economic factors driving the dearth of tech IPOs. But there is another...
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Powerset, a Natural Language search engine, founded by Barney Pell. Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Search, Portal, and Advertising said on his blog ; Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact...
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by Dan'l Lewin
Last week I sat down with Deborah Gage of the San Francisco Chronicle. We talked about how I came to work at Microsoft and what my mission here is, as well as how Microsoft works with software startup companies, how we acquire and integrate them into our businesses. You can read the entire article, Vice... read more