Forget the Apps, Now the bots take over… Techcrunch

I was intrigued by this article in Techcrunch this morning: Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over A similar paradigm is emerging from IoT devices. The complexity of so many apps and so many devices is becoming mind-boggling. In order to deal with it I have started to use a number of automations to […]

Software Development in Disruption – The New Paradigm of Software

In this series of blogs I will talk about the changes in software development over the last 10 years that have revolutionized our industry. I will also talk about what I see as the important trends and technologies. You can find at the end of this blog a list of the articles in this series […]

Basics of VC Investing from the VC’s and Entrepreneurial point of view

In my last article that talked of the merits of the Silicon Valley miracle and how it is unique and unstoppable more than one comment interpreted my article as an endorsement of VC’s in particular. Today VC’s are a shrinking importance to the Silicon Valley story. Part of this article will discuss the traditional VC […]

Security and Privacy – Not the staid and boring business of the past 20 years

Normally I consider security as something that is tedious but a necessary evil. Privacy is something lawyers mainly deal with, yuck. This has been a staid industry for some time with a number of fairly well known players. I started a security company in the DLP and eDiscovery space. We have to deal […]

Why is Silicon Valley so important? Why does it continue to prosper?

The beginning Silicon Valley located in the hilly northern part of California, one of the warmer climates in the United States is a treasure on many levels. Within a few hours drive from the Valley and San Francisco to the west is spectacular rocky James Bond type coastline, full of marine treasures and cute beach towns […]