Forbes Column 08: The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing

My most recent Forbes Column, The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing, discusses companies like ADP and their “nearshoring” moves.

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Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you closed the fund? Did the thesis check out? What was happening in the marketplace, and how did you get your positioning and your thesis out there to solicit deals? BJ: SalesForce.com went public as we were closing our first fund, and that proved to be a home run for Emergence.

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Broadcom: Valuation

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author The last month has been a great revelation for me. I have ventured beyond my comfort zone to research and understand the nuances of various other related segments like WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, set-top boxes, broadband modems, DVD players, and Ethernet. Such is the depth of Broadcom’s business. Before I go

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Entrepreneurial Executives?

I wrote this post on February 11, and have received a large stream of deals that are looking for financing. As I am working through these, it is becoming obvious to me that in most cases, the ventures need a couple of more key people in specific functions.

Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 4)

SM: Can you give some examples of companies using these subscription or transaction models? BJ: EBay and Travelocity are two. These are companies providing a service over the net to consumers but they are getting paid for the service. That was critical to us. SM: You had a bias towards subscription service versus advertising, which

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Broadcom: Wireless Revenue

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the last few articles, I dealt extensively with the Mobile and Wireless business of Broadcom. It is time we take a look at what this means from a revenue point of view for the company.

Building a New Venture Firm: Brian Jacobs of Emergence Capital (Part 3)

SM: There was a piece of the services industry that is well known, which is consulting services. That is not what you have in mind when you say services. BJ: Correct. We are talking about technology companies that use their technology to provide a service and usually they are using a network to deliver that

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Broadcom: Time for Stellar Execution

By Vijay Nagarajan, Guest Author In the last part of this series, I talked about Broadcom’s aggressive campaign to become a leading vendor in the cellular IC market. In this piece, I will talk about the plan, the challenges and the need to execute these plans in style.