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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Brian Magierski - Latest Comments</title><link>http://bkm.disqus.com/</link><description>Entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, debt, mergers &amp; acquisitions, and more - brian.magierski.com</description><atom:link href="https://bkm.disqus.com/comments.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:07:24 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Riding Giants &amp;#8211; On to the next big enterprise wave</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2010/12/15/riding-giants-on-to-the-next-big-enterprise-wave/#comment-122135825</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Exciting times, Brian! Congratulations on your new venture--I noticed you've always been savvy about mobile media while I've been tracking you on Twitter and in our conversations. It's been a pleasure working with you at Moxie/nGenera and I'm sure our paths will cross again.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Lauren Hall-Stigerts</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:07:24 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Riding Giants &amp;#8211; On to the next big enterprise wave</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2010/12/15/riding-giants-on-to-the-next-big-enterprise-wave/#comment-112451820</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Congrats bud.  Good things ahead fo sho. &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Susan Scrupski</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:15:30 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Riding Giants &amp;#8211; On to the next big enterprise wave</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2010/12/15/riding-giants-on-to-the-next-big-enterprise-wave/#comment-112391925</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Congrats Brian!  Hopefully the new company brings you out to the Bay Area so we can see each other regularly.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Chris Yeh</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:35:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/05/03/social-enterprise-software-discussion-buzzing-last-week/#comment-67657159</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So, I'm interested in the effect you think Drupal Commons (&lt;a href="http://drupal.org/project/commons)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://drupal.org/project/commons)"&gt;http://drupal.org/project/c...&lt;/a&gt; will have. I agree that the issue is not technology - it's making sure the enterprises understand the business benefits of using the technology.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But when the technology itself becomes free (as in both libertas and beer), what changes about how fast enterprises try, and find the benefits? What will this do to both the businesses, and the proprietary social business software market?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jay Batson</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:38:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/05/03/social-enterprise-software-discussion-buzzing-last-week/#comment-25298625</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Discussing of Enterprise Social Software is very amazing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.staffingpower.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.staffingpower.com"&gt;staffing power&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">staffpower</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:11:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Stop obsessing about Enterprise 2.0 ROI!</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/21/stop-obsessing-about-enterprise-2-0-roi/#comment-23772783</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Amen.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Collaboration is the new black. (or in this case, the new email)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We need it. Get on with it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dan Pontefract</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:06:13 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-01-31</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/01/31/links-for-2008-01-31/#comment-16531930</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Swing Trading</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:50:30 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: For love or for money?</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2009/08/20/for-love-or-for-money/#comment-15126317</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Money, while important, is only part of the score-keeping formula.  Big ideas with passionate leaders *always* win out.  See my latest post about "Getting excited..." and how it leads to "high scoring," so to speak: &lt;a href="http://budurl.com/l3tz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://budurl.com/l3tz"&gt;http://budurl.com/l3tz&lt;/a&gt;.  Thanks for the video, Brian.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SteveG</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:30:00 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2009-05-13</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2009/05/13/links-for-2009-05-13/#comment-12326640</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Brian, I'm interested in your take on M&amp;amp;A.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brandon</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:36:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Residential real estate dynamics</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2006/09/05/residential-real-estate-dynamics/#comment-12066565</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well what more can we expect Because of continuous economic downturn, many realtors and business establishment were engaged in financial issues, they tend to get big loans in order for their business to survive in this time of depression. &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Real Estate Internet Marketing</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:33:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Residential real estate dynamics</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2006/09/05/residential-real-estate-dynamics/#comment-10156718</link><description>&lt;p&gt;honestly, i don't think the price of real estate will drop that much. cause there's no much for them to drop&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">costa_rica_real_estate</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 12:56:50 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Social Media Marketing - what is it good for?</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/02/13/social-media-marketing-what-is-it-good-for/#comment-5093916</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Brian - interesting article.  My experience has been that Social Media does provide targeted information, but it's dependent on relationships.  In order to market through Social Media, you have to build relationships with readers by providing good, non-sales based content.  I suspect that the Social Media users of today can smell a sales pitch a mile away, so you have to break those barriers to establish trust and credibility.  Of course, this is easier said then done as I don't really think I've done a very good job of it myself. In my humble opinion, this is the key to marketing via Social Media.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brian</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:11:35 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-12-29</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/12/29/links-for-2008-12-29/#comment-4810721</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Great to see you both here commenting on my lazy blogging .... &lt;a href="http://del.icio.us" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="del.icio.us"&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; auto posts of my links!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indeed it's deja vu all over again with Wall St.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brian Magierski</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:26:00 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-12-29</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/12/29/links-for-2008-12-29/#comment-4810302</link><description>&lt;p&gt;And Gordon Gekko.  Le plus ca change...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Susan Scrupski</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:31:31 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-12-29</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/12/29/links-for-2008-12-29/#comment-4735510</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Really disturbing when you think about it. Was just lamenting to my dad about how much the "Wall Street" moniker has fallen in its regard. Right down there with used car salesmen, auto execs and Congress.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Steve Elmore</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:49:02 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-11-24</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/11/24/links-for-2008-11-24/#comment-3998306</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Doh! Thanks, didn't notice that ... popped up on Google Alerts...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brian Magierski</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:47:07 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: links for 2008-11-24</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/11/24/links-for-2008-11-24/#comment-3995816</link><description>&lt;p&gt;hey.  you bookmarked a splog.  (don't encourage them!) the "uncertain times" piece is from Jevon's blog. &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/3hvfgj" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://tinyurl.com/3hvfgj"&gt;http://tinyurl.com/3hvfgj&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;:-)&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">susan scrupski</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:30:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Model to enable Information Arbitrage?</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2006/07/29/model-to-enable-information-arbitrage/#comment-3743724</link><description>&lt;p&gt;first step in successfully implementing Information Arbitrage to power an investment strategy. The topic modeling would need to monitor for&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Artificial</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:35:34 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Residential real estate dynamics</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2006/09/05/residential-real-estate-dynamics/#comment-3564275</link><description>&lt;p&gt;heard this description so many times, you’d think the&lt;br&gt; adjustment would be quicker each time around, &lt;br&gt;yet it always seems to play out this &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">REAL ESTATE</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:08:15 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Plaxo and the Art of Successful Service Recovery</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2006/10/26/plaxo-and-the-art-of-successful-service-recovery/#comment-3281142</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I am glad you had your problem resolved efficientley, I have been trying to solve a problem with them for more than 3 months. I sent them another email today, to add to my file on their lack of response. I really like their service, when it works for me. Initially AFTER emailing several times, they told me the problem was that I had too many contacts in my contact folder so they had disabled my account. I worked with a rep to remove most of the contacts and it worked for about a week. Now I am still getting the error message that says they are experiencing problems and I can't sign in or look at profiles or anything. I am wondering if I am the only on getting this message or if other people are experiencing problems. They tell me I can sign on to vip services to get the number to call, however, when I try to sign into the service I get the error message!!! &lt;br&gt;Not a Happy Camper! &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">AngieT</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:57:29 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Rackspace Prices IPO</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/08/08/rackspace-prices-ipo/#comment-2245169</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Brian - as my profs at HBS, Lerner &amp;amp; Hardymon taught me a few years ago - value creation through innovation and unfair advantage are the ultimate determinant of market value.  Recently, I've seen very few deals go through, even on the High-tech M&amp;amp;A side, because they lacked a clear vision.  Kudos to you and the nGenera SMT for picking ones that will drive growth and enhance shareholder value.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We'll see if the recent pattern of IPOs above $100M will trickle down to smaller offerings, though.  I've yet to see it.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Hooks</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:11:24 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: How Enterprises are using Twitter</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/07/08/how-enterprises-are-using-twitter/#comment-1099319</link><description>&lt;p&gt;These are clearly emerging case studies of how enterprises are making use of Social Media, but are certainly harbingers of great things to come. Many of the highlighted use cases are for customer engagement, which means the enterprises are recognizing the growing voice and power of their customer base due to the Web 2.0 technology revolution.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;shabby&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.treatmentcenters.org/massachusetts" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.treatmentcenters.org/massachusetts"&gt;Massachusetts Treatment Centers&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">papput</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:21:50 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Forstmann&amp;#8217;s view on the credit crisis</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/07/07/forstmanns-view-on-the-credit-crisis/#comment-828303</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Frightening! This also extends to the Federal Government and how they have allowed the dollar to devalue. It certainly makes our debt cheaper over time. You may recall that OPEC had a fit when we went off the gold standard and then decided to peg oil to gold. The problem is, there's not enough gold to match even what is in circulation in the U.S. (around $4 trillion). Gold would have to double in price, just as oil has. There is a lot going on here.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">SteveElmore</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:15:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/05/03/social-enterprise-software-discussion-buzzing-last-week/#comment-515361</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Well said&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jeff Dachis</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 23:45:22 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: Social Enterprise Software discussion buzzing last week</title><link>http://brian.magierski.com/2008/05/03/social-enterprise-software-discussion-buzzing-last-week/#comment-418613</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks Oliver - great comment. I agree that IBM page is not impressive in&lt;br&gt;the least, and the timeframe question for the big players is the real&lt;br&gt;question. All have a placeholder for sure because they have to, but many&lt;br&gt;lack commitment - in the ham &amp;amp; eggs analogy, they are the eggs. This&lt;br&gt;includes Sharepoint despite the civil defense force you mention. The&lt;br&gt;Sharepoint story seems to their typical play - rather than just have a&lt;br&gt;placeholder, they deliberately seed something inside their customers into&lt;br&gt;which will grow whatever needs to grow to dominate that part of the customer&lt;br&gt;infrastructure over whatever timeframe it takes them to figure it out.&lt;br&gt;I agree with your comment - we are seeing the natural evolution in market&lt;br&gt;development in play here - from Education to Custom Solution development to&lt;br&gt;more packaged Applications / Solutions. We're probably in between the&lt;br&gt;Education and Custom Solution development stage, with collaborative&lt;br&gt;processes now being defined in some enterprises / industries, and custom&lt;br&gt;solutions being developed on these infrastructure toolsets - wikis, blogs,&lt;br&gt;forums, social nets, Sharepoint : ) - and single sign-on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dennis is probably right, these infrastructure players get consolidated into&lt;br&gt;the infrastructure. Alongside that, new application / social enterprise apps&lt;br&gt;providers will emerge building the next generation apps leveraging this web&lt;br&gt;middleware. All in all, a fun time to be in the market.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brian Magierski</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:34:04 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>