New business must be built on real market needs, ... not just college students hoping for a home-run IPO.
"Chris Shipley" is a writer, analyst, commentator, and strategist, and has tracked the technology industry for more than 25 years.
She is co-founder and CEO of [http://www.guidewiregroup.com Guidewire Group], a technology services firm focusing exclusively on early-stage technology ventures. Shipley consults with emerging technology companies around the world to identify market opportunities and accelerate business growth. At Guidewire Group, Shipley was instrumental in creating the first social media conference, BlogOn, held at University of California at Berkeley in 2005. She is widely acknowledged for popularizing the term social media.
As executive producer of the DEMO Conference from 1996–2009, Shipley was responsible for helping more than 1,500 companies launch their products to the audience of 700+ industry insiders, investors, early adopters, and journalists who attend DEMO events twice each year to hear her analysis of the state of the industry and see the technologies that she vetted on their behalf. During her tenure as executive producer, Shipley introduced companies including TiVO, VMWare, salesforce.com, GrandCentral, and Ribbit (telecommunications company)/Ribbit to the audiences at her conferences.
More Chris Shipley on Wikipedia.I think I'm fortunate that so many people talk to me about the products they're developing, the technologies they are working on, the ideas they have.
The bottleneck of PC computing is the laborious nature of hierarchical command structures. It limits the user experience and leads to feature underutilization. The 205PRO can dramatically change this. In commercial applications, the productivity improvement is direct and measurable. For the rest of us, it makes software more interactive and engaging.
Small businesses are moving onto the Internet at a phenomenal rate, ... A number of hardware and software companies are offering turnkey packages for catalog-building and e-commerce that will allow just about anybody to get on the Net.
I wanted to find some products that had broader implications than just our ability to send e-mail faster or share photographs.
I think it will be awhile before we have casual conversations like this with our computers, ... but I think we're getting there much faster than we might have thought.
It takes time for old industries to reinvent themselves. I think we are seeing that in the music industry.
What impresses me more than anything when we look at the economy and we say, 'Things aren't going so well' is to see what great technology is really happening here.
The benefits of IM are undeniable for businesses, yet the security risks and challenges are paramount for many organizations that are considering widespread IM implementation for their networks. The Barracuda IM Firewall is the first complete solution to allow organizations to harness the power of IM while eliminating the security risks.
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