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"I'm glad you had a good time, and it was nice hanging out on the Think Tank panel ;)" - Cote'

Apart from Apple, IBM remained in the business the longest (24 years). Compaq was second with 20 years before being bought by HP. HP and Dell are still operating after 15 years, having tied Atari and Commodore. After these ancients, the upstarts Nokia and RIM are struggling to remain relevant after 1 - Cote'

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I missed that OtherInbox got acquired last week #startups #exits - Cote'

I bet this @asymco conference would be awesome to go to - Cote'

A good example of Flipboard (for iPhone) spicing up the news. - Cote'

RT @HackerNewsYC: Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident - Cote'

Another anecdote concerns a ski resort in the Lebanon. The owner of the ski resort, deploring lack of snow, deposited at a shrine the Virgin Mary a $100 wishing for snow. Snow came, with such abundance, and avalanches, with people stuck in the cars, and the resort was forced to close, prompting the o - Cote'

(via IBM, Cisco, Red Hat, SAP Join Forces To Combat Amazon’s Cloud Success) - Cote'

‘The short end of the stick’ is by far the most commonly used form of the phrase. That is rather odd, in that the ends of sticks can be dirty or pointy, they can even be iridescent or hirsute, but it is difficult to see how they can be short. This has spawned the suggestion that ‘short’ is simply a e - Cote'

Nero Tulip became obsessed with trading after witnessing a strange scene one spring day as he was visiting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. A red convertible Porsche, driven at several times the city speed limit, abruptly stopped in front of the entrance, its tires emitting the sound of pigs being sl - Cote'

You can’t know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it’s ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they’re challenged? Why are they here? I ask everybody that: ‘Why are you here?’ The answers themselves are not what you’re looking for. It’s the - Cote'

"Change is hap­pen­ing all the time; our role is to iden­ti­fy use­ful change and ampli­fy it" - Cote'

Pretty amazing post from Backblaze putting their HW design - - Cote'

Meet Code 42, Accel’s first Big Data Fund investment - the CrashPlan people. #STaaS #cloud #consumertech - Cote'

I still contend that Apple’s policies and the design of the App Store itself initiated and even accelerated the race to the bottom - Cote'

What’s True SaaS And Why The Hell Should Customers Care? - Cote'

RT @EwanToo: @cote The backblaze manufacturers now sell the pods direct $5400, add your own disks - Cote'

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If we say ZTE started out as a contractor, like those building mass housing that are value for money, then we want to be a developer of luxury high-end estates. - Cote'

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you are competing against a lot of people. But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. - Cote'

Alienware X51 - Cote'

"submitted by reddit to blog." - Cote'

Another one of my endless attempts to track cloud momentum/growth vs. "traditional" IT: - Cote'

Based on some Gartner forecasts around SaaS, IaaS, and world-wide, enterprise software spend. PaaS is too small to really bother with relative to the others: $2.4B in 2015. - Cote'

RT @vambenepe: "Entertainers outnumbered sailors on doomed liner" Also true in some doomed companies. - Cote'

In-App Purchases Will Dominate the Smartphone App Business #freemium - Cote'

(Source: http://bit.ly/zDtHBn) - Cote'

Cow Management - basic software business model one - Cote'

A prescription for innovation - - Cote'