During this summer’s Canada Day long weekend, Ryan Sharp needed pictures of some beer coolers in Quebec convenience stores – so he turned to an army of iPhone-wielding shoppers to deliver the goods.By
By Francis Moran For a pre-revenue startup that is bootstrapping its way to market, incurring the cost to travel to another city to attend an industry trade conference with an admission price of
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette Last month, BlueArc Corp., a 13-year-old maker of network storage systems based in California, was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems for a reported $600 million. BlueArc’s business was
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette Siblings Katie and Luke Hrycak are in that category of entrepreneurs who could be called reluctant innovators. They found themselves in the midst of a problem they
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette In a recent post, we introduced BlueArc, a maker of networked attached storage (NAS) systems for managing unstructured data in high-performance computing applications, and Ken Rosen, a corporate strategy
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette A couple of moons ago, we talked about how “entrepreneur” is often a four-letter word on the university campus. Too many schools fail to appreciate how Web 2.0 has
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette Recently, tech heavyweights from around the world lined up to bid for Nortel Network’s portfolio of more than 6,000 telecommunications and web-related patents. When the dust settled, the
By Francis Moran and Leo Valiquette In the context of getting technology to market, “champion” can mean a lot of different things. Early in this series we defined it as individuals within established enterprises
You didn't actually read through the Facebook Terms of Use webpage when you signed up for a Facebook account, did you? By my count, it's more than 3,700 words of legal mumbo jumbo
The executive who just plunked down $50,000 for a new European sedan, the senior couple that spent $5,000 on a cross-country Canadian tour, the worker, stowing away $10,000 in an RRSP contribution yearly
On the Web site of mega research firm Gartner Inc. lives a section titled IT Budget Optimization , which, among other things, offers for sale 20 research papers on strategies for cutting IT
