(San Bruno, CA Nov. 16, 2016) Technology market research specialist Merrill Research today announced an alliance with the Chasm Group, Silicon Valley’s leading management consultancy co-founded by and based on the works of Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm.…
The concept of a strategic pivot was first popularized five years or so ago in Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup and subsequently by Steve Blank and other entrepreneurs and academics. Since then, it’s become another abused term for entrepreneurs,…
Vital Lessons on Hyper-Growth from Splunk’s former CEO At a recent session in San Francisco for a dozen CEOs of young tech companies in the investment portfolio of UK and New York based Octopus Ventures, Godfrey Sullivan, chairman and former…
By Paul Wiefels Part Two It’s summer time and I am devoting some of my “beach reading” to topics that personally intrigue me but are a bit off the beaten path from subjects I typically write about. My previous post…
Don’t fight it. Don’t try to brazen it out. Remember Intel’s PR disaster around the Pentium in the mid-90s? And what about the Exxon-Valdez oil disaster in 1989? And BP’s catastrophic oil spill in 2010? Closer to Tesla’s home industry,…
By Paul Wiefels Part One Researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimate that as many as 160,000 patients each year suffer permanent damage or death as a result of diagnostic mistakes. Not surprisingly, they are also the leading cause of malpractice…
Strategic Business Development specialist Clarify, today announced a partnership with Chasm Group, the go-to-market consultancy and advisory firm founded by and based on the works of Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm. By combining their individual specialties, the partnership…
Silicon Valley needs to dump its revenge-of-the-nerds culture and engage with the world Summary Since the results of the Brexit vote came out on June 24th, commentators everywhere have emphasized the growing popular anger in the UK and elsewhere against…
Summary: In 2010 Oracle sued Google over patent infringement regarding the use of 37 Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to accelerate the development of its Android OS for smartphones and other mobile devices, and thus compete with Apple’s highly successful…
Author: Hakan Jakobsson * * Editor’s note: From time to time we shall feature guest columnists in this forum. In this article, Hakan Jakobsson presents some provocative arguments and counter-arguments on the intriguing question of whether Google has left it…