Two software businesses once known as leading examples of the NoSQL tech theme made the news over the last couple of weeks -- MapR & NewRelic. HPE announced they had purchased the intellectual assets of MapR on August 5th. The treasure enticing HPE? "...artificial intelligence and machine learnin...

"Bulk up really big and really fast" is a widely understood underlying objective of venture capital investing. VCs invest in lots of early stage businesses, but really they are after the handful (or even one or two) with the promise to magnetize enormous numbers of customers in the shortest possi...

Uber, Airbnb, and, I would argue, Yelp and Groupon can each be categorized as a disruptive technology startup. But the importance of the adjective appended to the business type for this category of early stage business should not be over-emphasized. Here's why: For each of the businesses mentione...

On February 28, 2014, Mia Saini of Bloomberg TV briefly interviewed John Thompson, Microsoft's new Chairman. Saini includes some questions about Mr. Thompson's other significant current venture, Virtual Instruments. But this post will only speak to a few of the discussion topics specific to Micro...