October 2009

Amazon High Memory Instances Will Enable More EDA Apps to Move to the Cloud

Sometimes paradigms do shift. Amazon announced today that its Elastic Cloud Computing now supports high memory instances: High-Memory Instances Instances of this family offer large memory sizes for high throughput applications, including database and memory caching applications. High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 …

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Feedback from Sat-Oct-24 “Getting More Customers”

We had a good “Getting More Customers” workshop today, here is the feedback that we gathered and a heads-up on some plans for 2010. We added three numeric ratings to our feedback form this time (which shrank the space for comments). Numeric Ratings (1 Poor to 5 Excellent) Importance of Topic: 4.75 Content: 4.75 Quality …

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4 Steps to Prepare for a Startup While You are Still Employed

Someone with the label selfemploy posted the following question (note the fact that he is in Bangalore appears later in the thread, I have included it in the body of the question) on Hacker News earlier this month. As the recession continues to affect not only in Silicon Valley but  many engineers around the world …

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8 Tips for Evaluating Funding Alternatives

Many entrepreneurs planning their first software startup get stuck on funding and ownership issues. Here are some simple rules of thumb that may help you reframe an issue: Revenue, especially break even revenue, is never dilutive of your ownership. The right co-founders, while dilutive, substantially increase your chances of success: they give you a smaller …

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Time is the Limiting Resource for Bootstrappers, Not Money

I think a bootstrapper’s true scarce resource is time. Determining how to be most effective with how you spend your time is more important than spending too many cycles on trying to save nickels. As a side effect of cutting out ineffective activities you will tend to cut unnecessary expenses. “Lost wealth may be replaced …

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Last Day for Early Bird Rates for Oct-24 Getting More Customers

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for early bird rates on our “Getting More Customers – A 90 Day Plan” workshop that is Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) at the Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to …

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Nanette Collins: Startup Culture is Critical

I am happy to be able to offer another guest blog by Nanette Collins, her first was on “Volunteering, Lessons Learned from the Trenches.”  Nanette is an entrepreneur in her own right, she is the principal at Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR with offices in Boston and San Francisco and one the web at …

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Growing The Pie in EDA, Part 2: As Revenue Shrinks So Does Analyst Interest

Ed Lee and I have continued our conversation about the changing media landscape for EDA and addressed some issues that are relevant to getting back to growing the pie in EDA. What follows is an excerpts from Ed’s blog “What’s PR Got To Do With It?” with some hyperlinks added to provide more context, the …

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Getting Back to “Growing the Pie” in EDA

From the EDAC website “EDA Consortium News” page the last six quarters of EDA Industry Revenue announcements (all numbers in millions): Jul-3-08: Q1/08 declined 1.2% to 1350.7 vs. $1366.8 in Q1/07. Oct-9-08: Q2/08 declined 3.7% to $1357.4 vs. $1408.8 in Q2/07 Jan-12-09: Q3/08 declined 10.9% to $1258.6 vs. $1412.1 in Q3/07. Apr-7-09: Q4/08 declined 17.7% …

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