The last 60 days have been eventful at Black Mesa Ventures and for our new GEOINTELIS online service. I haven’t had much time to blog. We are in the middle of an industry-wide revolution in the delivery of software, moving from desktop and client/server delivery
Coming back to blogging after a little holiday break, I ran across this great post by Matt Bell of Azaleos: $0 to $20 Million: Ten Hand-to-Hand Sales Tactics There’s a lot of good stuff here and I’d encourage anyone developing a sales and marketing strategy
Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets
I haven’t posted anything about Tools We Use in awhile, so I thought I’d drop you a post about a recent upgrade. Like many companies, basically all of the Black Mesa Ventures companies use VOIP phone systems. I think the last company using a local,
In addition to my previous post about software company valuations, EBITDA multiples and Martin Wolf Securities, I also like to read the Software Equity Group’s industry reports in order to align my thinking about rates of return, growth segments and future investment. They’ve recently released
Great post about the changes in print media by David Carr, media commentator for the NY Times: The Media Equation – For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise – NYTimes.com
The short story is that a prominent start up financial services firm allegedly faked their audits and raised about $90MM in funding from VC firms over a couple of years: Canopy Financial Accused Of Serious Financial Fraud, Investors Burned Canopy Financial Turns Into Sad, Comical
If you’re an entrepreneur like me, this is the kind of innovation you want to help commercialize: ‘Fish technology’ draws renewable energy from slow water currents | Michigan Today
There’s a lot of discussion in small business and start up literature about creating a “system” that runs your business. You document your processes and hand those documents off to your people. You script your back office. You script your sales process. You script customer
Time management is worthless. It really is. I’ve spent plenty of “time” trying to get things done, solve problems and create value. But often, the most productivity comes from a few hours here and there during which I am energetic and focused. So, don’t think