Money for (Almost) Nothing
Money for (Almost) Nothing – Many start-ups are sitting on valuable data. We think there is an opportunity for companies, such as Accounting Software makers to earn a healthy side income monetizing that data.
Category Archives: Analyst Decoder Ring
Financial models – This is the Way
Financial models – This is the Way. Build simple, cash models. Models do not give answers, they show constraints and trade-offs, and are a tool for making informed decisions. We have a few suggestions on the right way to build them.
Why settle for 1,000 chip companies when you can have 10,000?
Why settle for 1,000 chip companies when you can have 10,000? – The overwhelming majority of these companies will fade away, but a few will end up mattering a lot.
Who benefits from Huawei’s predicament?
Who benefits from Huawei’s predicament? – Foreign and domestics competitors win, foreign suppliers see little change, customers lose a supplier, but the biggest losers are China’s aspiring component vendors.
What will happen to Huawei?
What will happen to Huawei? Huawei now has very few options, and no good ones, for obtaining most of its key components.
Quest for Fire
Quest for Fire – It is natural for companies to seek to acquire new technologies and IP, but in China, the State has taken an ever heavier hand in making this an organized, coordinated process.
Trouble at Intel
Trouble at Intel – Intel’s delay of 7nm chips is a near-term financial problem, a boon to its data center competitor, a geopolitical problem and not least a major identity crisis for the company.
5 chip companies revisited
5 chip companies revisited – With elevated stock prices and cheap debt the large companies have the means to further consolidate the industry. But this time even the biggest companies may be targets.
Org Chart as a Service
Org Chart as an Service- Amazon’s growth is built on an incredibly flexible organizational structure
5G and the Bandit
5G and the Bandit – The CBRS auction could be the start of a new chapter in wireless networking. We are watching to see if the cable MSOs and the Internet giants, or other new entrants, emerge as winners of some of that spectrum.
