John Gannon

So true…the original post by @cdixon is also great… msuster wrote: Chris, I’m so glad you wrote this. Everybody asks the question and now I’ll just send them the link ;-) We recently hired an associated. I got > 700 resumes and I didn’t even post that widely. 65 of them were of unreal quality in terms of education and job experience. Undergrad: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Princeton, Yale & MBA: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton. Many had near perfect SATs and GMATs. Many worked for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey or had worked in P/E or VC before. It was UNREAL. Not that you need these qualifications to be successful. But when you’re staring at 700 resumes (and we VCs don’t have an HR department!) you need some way of filtering quickly. In my process I also gave high... (more)

Social Networking Tip For Programmers – and Everyone Else

Set aside one hour daily for active marketing: Software developers love to spend days and nights coding great stuff. Focusing on marketing, sales and customer activities is not quite as exciting. Put some discipline in place. A good starting point is to devote one hour per day of your time to work exclusively on marketing. And I don’t mean read the Web to learn about SEO. Spend one full, ... (more)

My New Company – VMTurbo

We just launched a very simple website for my new company, VMTurbo.  If you’re interested in VMware, virtualization, or cloud, drop in and register so we can keep you up to date with what we’re doing. We also just grabbed the VMTurbo twitter account, although we’re not using it yet.  Feel free to follow us and eventually I promise we will be tweeting some good virtualization-related nugge... (more)

3Par Has A Tough Objection To Overcome

3Par, a Fremont, Calif.-based maker of storage arrays for data centers, pre-announced lowered earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2009 yesterday, blaming, among other things, the fact that customers don’t have access to the electricity needed to add 3Par gear to their data centers. via Constrained Power Grids Zap Sales at 3Par. I definitely feel bad for the 3PAR sales guys, t... (more)

Cloud Computing Cash Cow

Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has announced the Cloud Strategic Planning Service to provide cloud know-how to companies of various sizes that want to implement a form of cloud computing. The planning service will be provided through Sun's consulting arm, Sun Professional Services. It will evaluate a customer for cloud-readiness, determine whether a public or private cloud is appropriate, ... (more)