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Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

Big-hitting VC firm Sequoia Capital has invested in SaaS pureplay integrator Appirio, making a bet that bringing cloud applications to the enterprise will prove to be a disruptive opportunity. by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Professional Services, Sequoia Capital, Appirio, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Sequoia Capital partner to leave Google's board

Sequoia Capital partner to leave Google's boardSequoia Capital partner to leave Google's boardAt least one person on the Google board gets it. He jumping the sinking ship. Expect more to follow, especially with all the bad news Google has been getting lately.

Tags: Corporate governance, Business structures, Sequoia Capital partner, Google Inc., Sequoia Capital, board, partnership

Discussion threads 2007-03-23

Additional Resources

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Churchill Club: Breakfast with California State Controller John Chiang, in conversation with Michael Moritz

In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, California State Controller John Chiang talks with legendary venture capitalist Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital about the state's financial crisis and the implications for venture capital, business and technology in Silicon Valley. by Larry Dignan

Tags: Podcasts, Venture Capital, Investment, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-15

All that Jive: Putting the 'social' into business software

Jive Software announced the latest iteration of their Clearspace product today, and it has expanded significantly in size and scope. From origins as a forums and instant messenger vendor, Jive in 2006 launched 'Clearspace', a single application with wikis, blogs, discussions, instant messaging,...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Collaboration, Business Software, SBS 3.0, Jive SBS 3.0, Tools & Techniques, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-03-09

There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley

It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...

Tags: Capital Efficiency, Chip, Corporate Communications, Financial, Financial Crisis, Hardware, Internet, Marketing, Public Relations, Recession, Semiconductors, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, VC, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Security will suffer in the financial crisis

As many of you already know, the anti-Midas touch of the financial crisis is spreading to the technology sector. Sequoia Capital, one of the largest VC funds in Silicon Valley, gave a presentation that pretty much said become profitable now or pack up and go home. Security seemed...

Tags: Financial, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-10-19

How will Silicon Valley startups be affected by a downturn?

Things were tough enough for startups in Silicon Valley before the credit crunch financial crisis because of extremely few exit strategies. There are almost no IPOs, and the M&A market has slowed to a trickle. The latest Wall Street crisis isn't helping. Here is a some...

Tags: Silicon Valley, IPO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Financing Startups, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says soSequoia Capital Meeting: Our take on the economy and on-demand adoptionAs a Sequoia portfolio company, we actually had a slightly different take on this meeting. Read more here: http://www.appirio.com/blog/2008/10/chris-barbin-theres-lot-of-talk-today.php

Tags: cloud computing, Sequoia

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Times are officially tough: Sequoia says so

Talk about the insulated bubble that is Silicon Valley. Sequoia, one of the best venture capital firms out there, emails a bunch of portfolio companies and tells them to hunker down. And now everyone notices that things may not be so peachy in Web 2.0-ville. GigaOm has...

Tags: Web, Sequoia, E-mail, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Government, Channel Management, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-10-08

LinkedIn raises $53 million

LinkedIn has raised another $53 million in venture capital to give the company a rough valuation of $1 billion. The social networking company said in a post that its latest round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, which joins...

Tags: LinkedIn, Social Networking, Venture Capital, Investment, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Financing Startups, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Build your own Google

In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price. Kickfire sounds compelling for utility...

Tags: Google Inc., Worker, Aster, Aster Beehives, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-05

More publishers seeing green, especially Olive green

The folks who produce text that traditionally became ink printed onto paper are having tough times. We've all seen the reports of newspaper lay-offs. One financial problem they face: big daily papers have lost their stranglehold on lucrative classified ads to services like craigslist. ...

Tags: Nashville, Advertisement, Software Company, Printing, Olive Software, Spielvogel, Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-18

Why Joost landed the big funding dollars

Joosts position as a potential YouTube killer has been cemented by $45 million from a bunch of venture capitalists and CBS and Viacom. Joost, currently in beta, says its funding will "accelerate product development, global expansion, localization, and service offerings."...

Tags: Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, Google, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-05-10

Photo: Funny or Die scores laughs with Sequoia investor

Mark Kvamme, a partner at Sequoia Capital, laughs during a presentation at the OnHollywood conference.

Tags: investor, photograph, conference, partnership

Image galleries 2007-05-04

CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?

IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...

Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Google Local Search: $31 billion risky business

Last month I underscored the local advertising opportunity is currently wide open, putting forth “Google: $31 billion local dilemma”: High-profile, venture capital backed, locally-focused, online start-ups that launched with much fanfare and support are in critical condition—Judy’s Book, Backfence, InsiderPages—, unable to gain sufficient traction within local communities or...

Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, ROI, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Amateur Content, Venture Capital, VC, Google, Yellow Pages, Search, Local

Blog posts 2007-02-23

LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon Valley

The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...

Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks

Blog posts 2007-02-16

Google and YouTube: Pig in a poke?

In yet another example of absurd valuations, Google ponied up $1.65 billion today for YouTube. Co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were understandably excited. "We now have the resources to take our service to the next level," said Chen, who serves as YouTubes chief technology officer. The "next level", apparently,...

Tags: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim

Blog posts 2006-10-09

Gillmor's gesture to Mr. Mike

TechCrunch ignited fireworks all weekend, from TechMeme to the Wall Street Journal and from Washington DC to the United Kingdom.How does the master TechCruncher do it? Should he be emulated? The Michael Arrington show started last Friday or late Thursday night when he posted a “story” at TechCrunch that ought...

Tags: YouTube Inc., TechCrunch, YouTube

Blog posts 2006-10-09