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Sequoia 1.7 (Mac)

Sequoia is a reinvention of Tetris. As seen in Mac Fan magazine Japan and Mac100% magazine Japan. Maneuver shapes to create coherent squares of four by four blocks without touching the screen's border!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Japan, Magazine, Julian Meinold, Sequoia, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-05-13

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

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud

Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloudA Future On-DemandGreat description of our philosophy and approach. As you noted and we expand on in our blog we are just as excited about what doesn't change -our core business model- as we are about what does - being even more...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Groupware, Google Gmail, Sequoia, enterprise app, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

SequoiaView 1.3 (Windows)

SequoiaView is a disk browsing tool based on the principle of treemaps, with one unique feature added, namely Cushion Treemaps, invented by Jack van Wijk. The principle is simple: each time a rectangle is subdivided, ridges are added. The result is a pattern of hierarchical cushions that show the structure...

Tags: Cushion, Sequoia, SequoiaView, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-06-15

Additional Resources

Green shoots in Silicon Valley and the PowerPoint recovery

Rarely has a PowerPoint presentation had as much destructive effect as Sequoia's "RIP" deck . . . by Tom Foremski

Tags: Tom Foremski, Recovery, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-17

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

News to know: Microsoft; Amazon, AT&T-iPhone; PayPal; Yahoo's board

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Board, Yahoo! Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Smart Phones, Data Centers, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-24

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

2009 Toyota Venza AWD V-6

Photo gallery:2009 Toyota Venza AWD V-6Automakers really love their genre-bending new form factors. Our current example, the Toyota Venza, combines the commanding view of the road and interior volume of the Lexus RX SUV with the low step-in height and drivability of the Toyota Camry sedan. The result is something...

Tags: Toyota Venza, Toyota Motor Corp.

Product reviews 2009-03-06

Petaflops, Megawatts, and data files

Petaflops, Megawatts, and data filesWell..As far as I can read from the article you are quoting then Sequoia will be a 'Blue Gene' type system, which is something very different from the Blade based Roadrunner.Have a look at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_GeneIt's basically based around the PPC440, I think they use a quad core...

Tags: Processors, Blue Gene, Petaflop

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Energy, IBM working on 20 petaflop computer

If if weren't for nuclear weapons, we wouldn't have superfast supercomputers, would we? Now, thanks to the Energy Dept. and IBM, the latest supercomputer will run at an astounding 20 petaflops. This machine, Sequoia, is slated to boot up in 2012 at Lawrence Livermore. With that much...

Tags: Computer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, IBM Corp., Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-02-02

Sequoia Retail Systems Achieves PCI 6.6 Compliance Using Breach Security's WebDefend

Sequoia Retail Systems. Inc. is the leading independent provider of comprehensive point-of-sale, inventory control, ecommerce and textbook management systems to colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Prestigious educational institutions, including Duke University, University of Texas, Syracuse University and the Naval Academy, use Sequoia's products and services. Hosting e-commerce systems and...

Tags: PCI, E-business, Breach Security, Inc., Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

Case studies 2009-01-13

VC: "Wait Until Next Year"

If you want to get money for your startup, you might as well stop now, enjoy -- if you can -- the Thanksgiving Day holiday there must be something to be thankful for,  Christmas or Hanukkah and then just wait for the bell to ring in the New Year before...

Tags: Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-29

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

Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked

Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked"when an optical reader and paper ballot solve everything?? "It doesn't solve the problem of how to allow elections to be manipulated, which is what this is all about.The ability to produce a desired election result without having any way to challenge it is a...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, ballot, paper ballot

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

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

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09