They are showing a typical lack of creative market think. If only Linkedin would really take a close look at their out of whack subscription rates, and add some inspired services, as well as nurturing a more creative mobile app ecosystem, then they could leverage organic, rather than "brute force" market effects.

That is the strangest and most non-standard work contract I have ever seen, even the clauses are not in line with a standard coding job.

WEB SPHERE Division buys and puts to sleep like an evil Vetrinarian. Datapower

They just paid 1.4B for Sterling Commerce and 950 million for Cast Iron systems....hmmmm...not sure what to make of this.

The author is saying what has not been said in all of the later 20th and early 21st century "startup" hysteria. Large exists, feh. Swallowing innovators and putting them to sleep because the larger co could not operate them skillfully (Hello Google, Yahoo?). We need real businesses that grow and become medium sized or all sizes, but most important, long lived, commercial institutions. This is the formula that has been missing from the "Incubator Masturbator", 1st round 2M, up round 10M, 100M+ exit fire the founder or ship them off to be an 'entrepreneur in residence', G-d forbid they should run the company for awhile!

The author is saying what has not been said in all of the later 20th and early 21st century "startup" hysteria. Large exists, feh. Swallowing innovators and putting them to sleep because the larger co could not operate them skillfully (Hello Google, Yahoo?). We need real businesses that grow and become medium sized or all sizes, but most important, long lived, commercial institutions. This is the formula that has been missing from the "Incubator Masturbator", 1st round 2M, up round 10M, 100M+ exit fire the founder or ship them off to be an 'entrepreneur in residence', G-d forbid they should run the fucking company for awhile!

Serial entrepreneur? Why Serial, why not cereal? We need a high tech breakfast with chips.

Seriously folks, I just flew in from Kendall Square where sustainable tech was founded to be perverted by the Valley culture.

I now work for a small B2B ecommerce network, 20 years+ in business and poised to actually triple growth in 2010-11 - we cant get a fucking dime of equity - we can get debt from SBA, some banks, etc. We are busting our competition but are bound by our ability to hire fast from working cashflow.

And I swear, even if we find that partner telecom that wants to be the fastest highest tech company in API based EDI Networking, we will sell no more than 15 30% of convertible equity, and the harvest will be longer than most want to wait - because we have big plans and we can b/ack them up with real revenue, operations as a B2B commerce network with Marquee clients since 2000, and a vanishingly small debt carry (so small to be none, but we can't say none).

L-rd have mercy, has the fast large exit hurt this country or what, when a respected business, founded in '87, a recognized innovator since 2001, who is walking over their competition with ideas and execution - but who may lose the arms race for want of working capital for infra expansion and staff.....

I have never seen a blind-er or blinded industry like technology small capital funds - especially those at the "Tech Events 2.0" whose partners are as clueless about industrial verticals as a bunch of teenage girls...

Arghhhhhhh. Spit.

Everybody, sing the EDI Gy Song and I will Calm down: http://ecgridos.com/edi-guy-song/

The late 80's techboom (CD-ROM, interactive, etc.) say my transition from a tradesman to an entrepreneur - job runs of 4years or so turned into stints of 1-2 years, sometimes 90 to 180 day contracts. Occasionally I would nip back into the full time tech industry in the 90's, and be interviewed by an "adult", "why you no stay at jobs, and, all these companies you list on your CV are out of business...that's not good."

They did not get the new paradigm that was to be well established by the post 01 era, certainly.

All those companies that I worked at are gone, why you ask, "well, I am flattered that you saw ny contribution at these companies even more centrally important than the founders and execs."

My idea of a power users tablet. A 27 inch iMac with touch screen and a slip cover, self powered.