I am somewhat of a twitter user. I have an account, I tweat once in a blue moon. Personally, I find facebook status updates to be much more compelling than twitter. Dennis Stevenson has an interesting blog entry about how twitter helped him get customer service issue resolved. The facinating thing about his story is [...]
The Envysion team recently hosted a Texas Hold’em tournament. All employees were invited, along with a couple of special guests. Congraulations are in order for Dan Caruso, who took first. Dan got to the final two with a commanding lead, and he never let up. Perhaps his blogging on the Telecom Texas Hold’em paid off. Second [...]
As I was about to deliver a SaaS overview to a large partner sales force, the SVP used this quote during his introduction of Envysion’s MVaaS technology to the team. It has stuck with me ever since and as Enysion continues to evolve, the impact of this statement gets stronger and stronger. I’ve had the [...]
Business data (meta-data) needs to be constantly scanned and reported onto to maximize it’s value. It’s important that there are many ways to scan, slice and dice this data because each business is different and the information sought also frequently changes. Storing video and business intelligence separately allows Envysion to have more flexibility as well [...]
Taking a cue from Brad Feld’s blog about daily data, we’ve come up with our own daily data template. For those of you who didn’t take the bait and click thru the previous link, the idea of daily data is a short email based summary of significant metrics about a service business. It is meant [...]
A colleague and friend of mine, John Honovich, just asked me a couple of questions on what I thought about the retail market given that is a big target market for Envysion. First of all, if you haven’t already signed up for John’s ipVideoMarket.info site you should right away. John has more connections and better [...]
If you are an investor, you likely have had a tough year. After closing at 1,427 on May 19, 2008, the S&P 500 Index has generally gone one way – down. The closing mark for the Index on March 9th was 677. This is a stunning 53% drop! If you foresaw this and moved appropriately, hats off to you. [...]
In 2008, nobody escaped the traumatic effect of the corn-bubble. The ill-conceived and panic-driven notion of putting food in our gas tanks caused not a ripple, but a disastrous avalanche of food inflation unseen in nearly thirty years. I’ll guide readers to my July 2008 post for the details around this. In the end, our country [...]
Perhaps expansion of broadband into rural areas will help bring managed services to locations where they were previously not possible due to lack of high speed Internet. Controversy over stimulus for rural broadband as covered by NPR Some data on broadband penetration in rural areas from 2007. Clearwire and Open Range Communications are a couple [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Tomorrow will mark the 1 year anniversary of the government brokered sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan for $2/share and of course $30 Billion of our (taxpayer) money. If you haven’t seen Frontline‘s 1 hour news report on the wall street meltdown, here’s a link to watch it [...]