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Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

Enterprise May Be Sexy, But….

By Zoli Erdos on June 4, 2013

Snapshot from today’s TechMeme.  Crazy gamers (OMGPOP) dropped by even crazier gamers (Zynga) as they fall out of favor by even crazier gamers (the whole World). So what. On the very same day Salesforce.com acquires Exact Target in their largest ever transaction valued at $2.5B and it does not even make TechMeme.  Heck, even ActiveState’s acquisition […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged acquisitions, ActiveState, Appsecute, M&A, OMGPOP, salesforce.com, TechMeme, zynga

Trends: 5 Engagement Factors For Gamification And The Enterprise

Trends: 5 Engagement Factors For Gamification And The Enterprise

By R "Ray" Wang on January 20, 2011

Gamification Will Drive Future Enterprise Software User Experiences The Gamification Summit kicks off in San Francisco today.  Gamification represents another consumer tech innovation entering the enterprise.  Game-like mechanisms can improve engagement and participation in the enterprise for all stakeholders (i.e. employees, customers, partners, and suppliers).  A few key areas with immediate potential for enterprises considering […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Consumer Tech, disruptive, disruptive technologies, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, enterprise software, gamification, gsummit, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, zynga | 3 Responses

Keeping Score: Exit Activity for Venture Backed Companies in 2010

Keeping Score: Exit Activity for Venture Backed Companies in 2010

By Michael Fauscette on January 5, 2011

Not surprisingly in 2008 and 2009 exit activity for venture backed tech companies was very slow. Last year that activity seemed to have picked up, mirroring the overall improved business environment. I try to keep track of most of the…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged AdMob, Facebook, google, ibm, IPO, M&A, mobile, Social, vc, venture, Venture Capital, venture funding, Wall Street Journal, zynga | 2 Responses

Secondary Markets Bring Liquidity

Secondary Markets Bring Liquidity

By Jeff Nolan on December 20, 2010

This quote in an article about Zynga blocking sales of stock through secondary markets caught my attention: As we have been consistently reporting on SecondShares, we believe we are now witnessing the emergence of a more liquid marketplace akin to how markets like the high yield market got started in earnest in the early 1990’s, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Facebook, google, liquidity, secondary market, secondmarket, zynga | 1 Response

Distributed Talent, Beyond Silicon Valley

Distributed Talent, Beyond Silicon Valley

By Ross Mayfield on October 14, 2010

Om has a great post on Silicon Valley and the Talent Crunch. With angel funding booming and companies like Facebook, Twitter, Zynga growing like bad good talent and real estate are growing scarce again in the Valley. Yes, we cycle through boom and bust — but what I don’t understand is why we don’t learn […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, distributed team, Facebook, global team, Silicon Valley, socialtext, Twitter, zynga

Virtual Nonsense All the Way Down the Drain. A Twisted (?) View of US vs China

Virtual Nonsense All the Way Down the Drain. A Twisted (?) View of US vs China

By Zoli Erdos on September 28, 2010

I don’t often recycle older posts in full – but sometimes I get all worked up, want to “blog it out of my system” only to discover I’ve already said it all. That’s how I feel about the explosion of virtual goods.  So there it is, vintage July 2009, still valid, except this time I’d […]

Posted in Business | Tagged China, Facebook, virtual goods, Virtual reality, World of Warcraft, zynga

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