“It’s like YouTube for ___” For a non-investor, I end up hearing a lot of pitches. I even make pitches of my own (not for companies, but for product ideas — same basic idea). Around Mozilla, we tend to say that things are “like the web” or “very Mozilla”. Those are equally fuzzy analogies, which [...]
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SaaS as a Service?
If you haven’t been paying attention (and really, most people shouldn’t), there’s what feels like a real trend where startups are breaking down common tasks for web & app development, and solving them through a software-as-a-service model. So, in no particular order, you can see stripe doing payments disqus doing commenting firebase, pusher doing lightweight [...]
Thunderbird in 2010
2010 will be a big year for Thunderbird. Last year, we launched Thunderbird 3, which is a huge milestone for us. In this post, I’d like to give people a heads-up as to what the coming year will look like. I’ll focus on three topics: our plans for innovation through add-ons, Thunderbird 3.1, and our [...]
Business and open source…
Ashlee Vance wrote a story in today’s nytimes.com (I presume it’s in the print edition too about the business world’s supposed disappointment in the shareholder value of open source based businesses. I suppose if you ignore all of the companies listed in the article who were sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, and you [...]
I'm sorry I missed the local Launch Party…
Sounds like it was fun. I’ll have to try and make a note of the next one…
I’m sorry I missed the local Launch Party…
Sounds like it was fun. I’ll have to try and make a note of the next one…
