Envault Signs On Board New CEO And Clientele, Fueled By New Products
Envault has a lot to announce this January. They've signed a contract with a new CEO, brought on board new clients and also plan to fuel growth more in 2011 with an array of new products. Envault's new CEO is Jörgen Jansson, who has built an extensive career in Progress Software, CA and IBM. He has started his work at Envault and plans to extensively grow the reach of their products in the coming years.
IBM And Startups?
Editorial note: This is a guest post by Ville Peltola the Innovation Director of IBM Finland. They are developing a lot of interesting things that startups and entrepreneurs should know. This post has not been paid for.
Not many people think about IBM and startups in the same sentence. We want to change this and that is why we launched the IBM Global Entrepreneur program earlier this year. IBM has also several internal startups operating inside IBM. We'll explain this later in the post.
So Who's Doing The Shopping In The US? The Big Eleven
In our last post in the Nexit Ventures supported series we covered "why being sold to the US is a big deal". This time round we cover the companis and the M&A activity in more detail. Basically, there are eleven large companies who do the majority of the buying. These companies are Apple, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and Qualcomm.
The big eleven are called the big eleven for the reason that their size and cash reserves enable them to do the majority of the acquisition activity in the States. There are a few key things that entrepreneurs should understand when looking at the M&A activity in the states.
Events You Don't Want To Miss
On the face of it startup events might look like bunch of geeks listening to talks that provide little or no value over what can be obtained with an Internet connection and an ability to read.
Wrong! It's not what happens on-stage but off-stage that matters. This is where grown men talk tech, drink imported beer and meet the most important people of their startup lives. This is where you get to know the people. And its the people you know that will make the difference between a success and a failure.
Yes, your product's traction may play a role, but a few emails to the right people do wonders when you are running out of money, haven't slept for days and are fighting windmills to close the one deal that means the difference between life and death. This is while at the same time Facebook is busy stealing your CTO right when your servers can't cope with the increased traffic. That's when knowing the right people come handy.
Ravensoft Green Snapper Rides The Wave Of Green IT
During this economic cycle, energy efficiency is the name of the game. 2009 Green IT Report released last week by Symantec shows that even 45 % of firms globally are adopting green budgets. The companies, which can offer energy efficiency solutions with quick paybacks in terms of cost-savings attract customers (and investors) right now. Last Friday, only 18 month energy and environmental management software startup Hara raised USD 6 million from Kleiner Perkins. Energy efficiency technologies can reduce both costs and carbon emissions and also, these technologies are less capital intensive and can be brought to market quite rapidly. ICT and internet industry like Intel, IBM, Cisco and Google has seized the energy as a significant revenue opportunity for some time. For instance, Google's three step approach to being carbon neutral includes in-house efficiency programs, the actions for producing electricity (cheaper than coal) through renewable energy ( RE<C ) and finally, investments in Carbon Offset projects. As a part of efficient computing, Google introduces CO2 emissions of some everyday activities and compared them to Google searches (a link).
