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IP Video Market Info released a search engine designed specifically for the video surveillance professional.
John Honovich, founder of IP Video Market Info and frequent commenter to this blog, describes the new optimized search engine in this press release.
Let’s hope that word spreads and the search engine is successful!
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Phil Wainewright has an interesting post on the progress being made with SaaS enterprise-grade ”mashups”.
For those who are unfamiliar with the term, in technology a mashup is a combination of data from several different sources provided to the user through one integrated tool. This is not a new concept. But its development in [...]
In a previous post, I stressed the importance that leaders act decisively, often with imperfect or incomplete information. This is an imperative, and is not going away.
Still, smart business people desire the best information available at the time, so as to help them formulate the optimal course of action. Operating on “hunches” or “gut” alone is not a recipe for [...]
Sandi Mays of Zayo has a series of recent posts on leadership (A leadership lesson from Dan Caruso, A paycheck player, and Identify a great leader with this tool). There are important lessons and reminders in the posts, so it is well worth the read.
Another slant on the topic of leadership is the recognition of [...]
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My colleagues will attest to the fact that I do not have a green thumb. My recent performance in caring for an orchid that was sent to us by our banking partner, Square 1 Bank, leaves no doubt. The flower passed shortly after the July 4th weekend. My public stance was to blame [...]
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If you sample lists of numbers from many real-life sources of data, what is the probability that the leading non-zero digit from any of the numbers is 1?
Logic would suggest that the answer to be 1 divided by 9, or 11.1%. But it’s not.
Rather it is an astonishing 30.1%!
This doesn’t sound right, but it is. Based on [...]
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In a recent study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), venture capitalists invested over $7.4 billion in the second quarter. This is on par with the $7.5 billion invested during the first quarter, and continues a general and steady upward trend since 2002.
“The relatively stable level of venture investment this [...]
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Entropy is the measure of disorder in an isolated system. Scientists have theorized that there is a natural tendency in the universe for systems to move from order to disorder, but not vice versa.
The theory is common to our human experience. Time and again we are able to validate the tenants of the theorem through empirical observations. Things don’t [...]
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SaasBlogs has an interesting question on pricing for SaaS companies – When should software be sold pay per use?
Why did I find the post, and related comments, so interesting? Specifically because the question is central to almost every business, and answering it requires thoughtful consideration.
The author postulates that there are two primary pricing options for SaaS applications – [...]
How have you dealt with your limiting constraints? Were you successful?
In Scott Beck’s address to the team at Envysion, he shared two specific strategies that he has utilized at the companies he has founded and led. Thanks again, Scott, for sharing your insights!
Alignment
The alignment of a company is of utmost importance. And it does take long [...]
