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Milestone Group Quarterly

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July, 2009

Featuring Brian Lent (Medio Systems), David Aslin (Nexit Ventures), Chetan Sharma (Chetan Sharma Consulting), and Milestone PoV: Evolve or Commoditize - Telecoms in the Advent of Cloud Computing.

Archives

April, 2009

Featuring Patrick Grady (Rearden Commerce), Jason Green (Emergence Capital), Chunka Mui and Paul B. Carroll, Co-Authors, "Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years" and Milestone PoV: Enterprise Software is Dead - Long Live the Enterprise!

January, 2009

Featuring Bertrand Diard (Talend), Rob Hayes (First Round Capital), Peter Cochrane (former BT CTO) and Milestone PoV: A Different Perspective on the Venture Industry.

October, 2008

Featuring Chetan Venkatesh (Atlantis Computing), Michael Kim (Rustic Canyon Partners) Michael Butler (Cascadia Capital) and Milestone PoV: We Will Remember the Titans.

July, 2008

Featuring Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia.org), Evangelos Simoudis (Trident Capital) Jonathan Zittrain, Author of "The Web's Dark Energy, Community policing can help make the Web safe" and Milestone PoV: The Ecosystem Wars and the Zero-Sum Game.

April, 2008

Featuring Ted Griggs (Ribbit), Mary Coleman (Walden International) Chetan Sharma, Author of "Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market" and Milestone PoV: It's a Groovy Time for the Wireless Sector.

January, 2008

Featuring Heather Harde (TechCrunch), Sonja Hoel Perkins (Menlo Ventures) Nicholas Carr, Author of "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google" and Milestone PoV: What Facebook and Muhammad Have in Common.

October, 2007

Featuring Nova Spivack (Radar Networks), Eric Benhamou (Palm, 3Com and VC), Jessica Lipnack, (Author and Co-founder, Virtual Teams) and Milestone PoV: Doing the Deal - or - Why Nine Men Can’t Make a Baby in a Month.

July, 2007

Featuring Naren Gupta (Nexus India), Dinesh Wadhawan (Indiatimes), Satish Nambisan and Mohan Sawhney (Authors of "Harnessing the Global Brain for Innovation and Growth: The Execution Challenge") and Milestone PoV: The Challenges Facing IT Capital Investors.

April 2007

Featuring Mike Stonebraker (Streambase and Vertica), Jean-Louis Gassee (Allegis Capital), Don Tapscott (Co-author of "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything") and Milestone POV: Synchronizing Time Frequencies Between the Large Enterprise and the Innovative Firm.

January 2007

Featuring Vivek Khuller (DiVitas), David Skok (Matrix Partners), Chip Heath (Author of "Made to Stick") and Milestone PoV: Monetizing Web 2.0.

October 2006

Featuring Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tim Draper (Draper, Fisher and Jurvetson), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media) and Milestone POV: Web 2.0: Is it Real or Just a Pretender?

July 2006

Featuring Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com), Promod Haque (Norwest Venture Partners), Professor Yves Doz (INSEAD) and Milestone POV: Fixing What’s Broken.

April 2006

Featuring Woody Hobbs (Intellisync), Michael Skok (North Bridge Venture Partners), David Yoffie (Harvard Business School) and Milestone PoV: Building Effective Partnerships.

January 2006

Featuring Dr. Anand Deshpande (Persistent Systems), Pete Solvik (Sigma Partners), Geoffrey Moore (TCG Advisors) and Milestone PoV: Evaluating Sales People.

October 2005

Featuring K.B. Chandrasekhar (Jamcracker), Brad Feld (Mobius Venture Capital), Ron Ricci (Cisco) and Milestone PoV: Missing Your Numbers?

July 2005

Featuring Bill Coleman (Cassatt), Dixon Doll (Doll Capital Management), Howard Anderson (MIT), Jeff Karan (Woodside Capital Partners) and Milestone PoV: International Expansion.

April 2005

Featuring Kim Polese (SpikeSource), Stephen J. Harrick (IVP), John Seely Brown and John Hagel on IT Plaforms for Business Innovation and Milestone PoV: Aligning Sales Vision and Process.

January 2005

Featuring Halsey Minor (Grand Central), Robin Vasan (Mayfield), Jeff Rayport (Marketspace, LLC), and Milestone PoV: Integrating Marketing and Sales Processes. SPECIAL OFFER: Attend Software 2005 Conference.

October 2004

Featuring Jeff Rodek (Hyperion), Stewart Alsop (NEA), Rob Adams (Tejas Venture Partners) and Milestone PoV: The ROI of ROI.

July 2004

Featuring John Street (MX Logic), Brad Silverberg (Ignition Partners), Ben Gomes-Casseres (Brandeis University) and Milestone PoV: Driving Revenues Via Relationship Management.

April 2004

Featuring Julie Hanna Farris (Scalix), Warren Weiss (Foundation Capital), Thomas W. Malone (MIT Sloane School of Management) and Milestone PoV: Jim Hogan on Successfully Selling to SME's.

January 2004

Featuring John Laing (Inxight Software), Ray Lane (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Tom Davenport (Babson College) and Milestone PoV: Building Better Products.

October 2003

Featuring Phil 'Dunk' Dunkelberger (PGP Corporation), Sam Jadallah (Mohr Davidow Ventures), John Hagel (Management Consultant and Author), Martin Pichinson (Sherwood Partners).

July 2003

Featuring Steve Larsen (BigFix), Martin Gagen (3i), Ben Andersen (Renoir Partners) and Milestone PoV: Lead Gen For Lean Times.

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Dear Reader:

When not having a mobile phone glued to my ear, I've spent considerable time in/around the mobile space over the past quarter so it's only fitting this edition of the Milestone Group Quarterly is focused on all things mobile. The past few months, I've been causing mobile mischief on a global scale by poking around several operators worldwide, pondering the logic of insanely long lines outside our local Palo Alto Apple store as poseurs await the new 3 GS, genuflecting at the Ericcson altar in Kista, debating the merits of mobile app stores and if a developer can make enough to buy a sandwich, lighting a proverbial fire inside the board room of major mobile trade associations and trying to figure out which operator will first openly declare a software tsunami is soon about to be hit and the best course of action is an operator-turned-software-developer approach. (Face the wind baby!)

We kick off this edition interviewing Brian Lent of Medio Systems. It's an interesting story about competing on mobile analytics and how operators globally are leveraging mobile transaction data.

Next, David Aslin takes us through life at Nexit Ventures, being one of the very few pure mobile VC plays around.

Chetan Sharma is our first two-time contributor and has penned a thoughtful read regarding the coming Yottabyte Era and the impending data tsunami.

Rounding out this edition, Anselm Magel has provided perspectives on cloud computing and how operators ought to be thinking about this coming disruption.

We're delighted to bring you this Silver Anniversary 25th edition of the Milestone Group Quarterly, first published in July 2003. Thanks for your continued readership.

Up and right,

Mark Zawacki

Publisher

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