If you’re a major league baseball fan, you’ve probably read “Moneyball,” the best-selling book by journalist Michael Lewis chronicling the successful statistics-driven management of Oakland Athletics General Manager, Billy Beane. Baseball has long been a game of stats, but Beane’s philosophy gave the… Read More »
Tech
GigaOM’s Structure 08 event offered a terrific opportunity to survey the changing landscape of computing infrastructure. But as with all technology shifts, innovation won’t just belong to the big established players like VMWare, Amazon, Google, Sun Microsystems, Salesforce.com and
Data center and hosting provider RackSpace Inc., has filed to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering. Its financials seem generally sound (unlike many tech companies it’s actually profitable), although profits did drop by 10 percent in the last year. However, rapid expansion… Read More »
I had separate lunches this week with two serial founders, both of whom happened to cut their teeth working at the foot of that tyrannical, yet irrepressibly successful, nearly-but-never-richest-man-in-the-world software mogul whom everyone loves to hate only slightly less respectfully than Bill Gates:
NetSuite went public Thursday in a Dutch auction, meaning its shares were priced through an auction of would-be buyers, not by a handful of investment bankers, as is the process in a traditional IPOs. (NYSE: N) Bankers tend to under price IPOs by… Read More »
Larry Ellison is about to get richer. He owns a big chunk of NetSuite, a San Mateo, Calif.-based software-on-demand company looking to go public and raise as much as $114 million by selling over 7 million shares for $13-to-$16 a share, giving the company a… Read More »
