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06:43 PM Thursday, May 31, 2007
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As I mentioned in some of my previous blogs, a high interest area of mine currently is Health care. As I mentioned in my previous blogs, there is currently a lot of thinking internally at Microsoft about how we can use technology to empower consumers
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02:14 PM Saturday, May 19, 2007
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There has been a lot of buzz over the last couple of days about Microsoft's $6 Billion of AQuantive as it tries to capture a larger role in the web video market. The frenzy is intense because this follows the high profile Google acquisitions of advertising
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01:12 AM Friday, May 18, 2007
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Over the last few months, I have been working with an exciting new startup based in Ireland - NitroSell , a Microsoft ISV operating in the Microsoft Dynamics™ and e-commerce spaces. It is a venture-capital (VC) backed Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company
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02:51 AM Thursday, May 17, 2007
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Today, enterprises know that 3D digital design information exists in their organization that can vastly improve processes from manufacturing to product support to customer service to marketing and sales. But enterprises have been unable to liberate this
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02:31 AM Wednesday, May 16, 2007
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Another emerging company that has been a hit with our sales teams is Canadian company Cactus Commerce ( http://www.cactuscommerce.com ) . Cactus Commerce offers a suite of industry-focused solutions built on the Microsoft platform. They have a several
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02:29 AM Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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Scenario #5 I am going to review is a Denver based company IPCommerce , that enables open payments and allows banks and service providers to deliver payment services to any business. The company has built a network called the IP Payments Framework , entirely
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12:35 AM Monday, May 14, 2007
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Car dealers typically run a high risk, low margin business and are typically very reserved to upfront investments into IT solutions (as this is not their core competency). This industry moves particularly slowly in the adoption of new technologies which
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11:01 PM Saturday, May 12, 2007
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The third company I will review in the current series of blogs on Startups for the enterprise is a venture backed startup based out of Denmark called Interse http://www.interse.com . Enterprise Search and Document Management is a top customer campaign
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06:17 PM Friday, May 11, 2007
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Follow up to my previous blog, another company in the EMI space that sales teams have liked are Informance ( http://www.informance.com ). One reason may be the healthy list of customers they have on their resume that are now reaping huge benefits with
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06:59 PM Thursday, May 10, 2007
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Following my previous two blogs on the Enterprise segment, in which I give some basic guidance on sales partnership with Microsoft, I would like to now focus the next several blog entries featuring companies I have been working with over the last months
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05:33 PM Wednesday, May 09, 2007
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Follow up to my previous blog , its time to elaborate on some key criteria VCs and startups should be thinking about. I have already discussed the importance of an ISV pulling a significant amount of Microsoft revenue in the previous blog. There is nothing
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12:39 AM Wednesday, May 09, 2007
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Over the last several months, I have been involved in an initiative aimed at defining a more predictable process to introduce new companies into a Microsoft ecosystem. For the last five years I have been at Microsoft, the number one wish of most companies
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