As SaaS companies start to mature and go public (there were several in 2007 and a flood expected in 2008 and 2009) there is starting to be some interesting discussion

Following on the "sales" theme I received the following question yesterday from a regular reader. Are you aware of any blogs that regularly deal with issues that arise when startups

You are an experienced software sales person.  You just drained your 2007 sales pipeline and are frustrated with the lack of growth of your existing company.  You want to join

I heard a great line recently.  Michael Price – one of the senior guys at Evercore and a long time friend (we were on the PeoplePC board together) was interviewed.

My last book of 2007 was Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, one of the CIA books recommended in the comments of my post History of the CIA.

Tom Evslin picked up my challenge to help invalidate the proposed patent in my post Have You Ever Coded a Progress Bar?  Tom has prior art going back to 1987

I didn’t listen to any voicemail in 2007.  I got plenty of them – but I didn’t listen to any of them.  Yet I got 100% of the information that

It appears that Vonage had something in its patent portfolio that Nortel didn’t like.  Several weeks ago Nortel sued Vonage for patent infringement.  They just settled for a limited cr

Facebook.  MySpace.  LinkedIn.  Plaxo.  Gmail.  Email Contacts.  Bebo.  Every individual social networking software product that I use (Dogster, Shelfari, …) O

Our friends at IBM are trying to patent the "progress bar."  EDN has an article about it titled U.S. patent office looking for prior art on IBM patent application.  As