If you are an enterprise software entrepreneur, the Virsa story will definitely warm your heart. In addition, if you believe humility, hardwork and intelligence should pay off you would have enjoyed today’s presentation. The husband-wife team of Jasbir Gill and Kaval Kaur created and led the startup from start to acquisition by SAP. Virsa: The […]
Archives for July 2006
SAP misses Q2 forecast, organically!
SAP has been beating the drumbeat of organic growth as opposed to Oracle’s acquisition strategy. It is immaterial that SAP did make an unsuccessful bid for Retek and has acquired a few small companies. Bottomline is that SAP failed to deliver the revenue growth, growing a small 8%. I am waiting to see how SAP […]
Let’s play games! Open source generates lots of value but little revenue
Yes, it may sound counter-intuitive but many technologies over the last 100 years have successfully added a lot of value without being a profitable business. Airlines add a lot of value to both individuals and businesses allowing us to meet people, establish relationships, ship goods and deliver services. However, since flying is a highly competitive […]