Monthly Archives December 2008

Near Field Communications (NFC): Enabling Adoption

Sarah Clark, the editor of Near Field Communications World has posted a question: Is NFC ripe for adoption, or has it missed the boat? This is prompted by a recent report by ABI Research: “Once, NFC (Near Field Communication) was the leading contender among technologies that could enable mobile payments.” says an ABI Research press [...]

Maximizing Captial Efficiency: Is global R&D one of the solutions?

I attended the SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC yesterday and there was a lot of talk about capital efficiency from the VC panel. Capital efficiency is nothing new, but under the current economic scenario all the VCs seem to be chanting the same mantra all of a sudden. There was a recent popular blog [...]

The (in)famous RIP ppt from Sequoia Capital on startups & economic downturn

Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives. read the story at GigaOM. The now infamous ppt: Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturn View SlideShare presentation [...]