I’m not as smitten with Mozilla Firefox as I should be, perhaps, but today marks an interesting anniversary: four years ago today, AOL killed Netscape and that spawned Mozilla. Mozilla Firefox has become the leading challenger to MSFT’s Internet Explorer, and while only some 13% of the world is on it, apparently, in some areas of Europe it has grown to become quite a ferocious foe of Redmond’s near-monopolistic browser.
In four years time, what will Mozilla Firefox’s market share be in 2011? continue reading...
I always like to remind my brethren online that everything web professionals say should be taken with a grain of salt (yes, myself included).
Here’s one more example: continue reading...
How much is too much money? If you’re running a business in SF, NY, London, you need a lot of money. It’s not just fixed costs that are killer, naturally labor costs are also much higher than they would in a smaller market.
Yesterday Marc Andreessen announced that his latest company Ning raised a massive $44M for a post money valuation of over $200M. That’s a lot of money for a company in a space that has yet to prove it can generate substantial revenues. In other words, the only successful companies yield exits that come in the shape of an M&A, and these are scarce despite the big headlines. continue reading...
