Andrew Bellay
on July 29, 2010 
What's going on with the infamous cloud? Is it actually catching on or it held up for security reasons? We start this great panel off with a debate about how secure the cloud is and get to the other key issues that have slowed the projected adoption of the cloud. Are the barriers psychological or technical? Is Amazon's AWS dead?
Andrew Bellay is the VC & Money editor of AlwaysOn. Feel free to send me cool content, new products you'd like reviewed, or any crazy idea and I'll check it out: andrew@aonetwork.com.
Andrew Bellay
on July 28, 2010 
The Anatomy of a Successful Startup in 2010. This awesome panel, moderated by Guy Kawasaki, was all about the AlwaysOn Global 250 for 2010. We kicked things off by talking about how 2008-09 treated these start-ups. Generally, these CEOs saw only the upside and opportunities of the past 18 months. The panel moved on to discuss some of the details of how they got to be the best start-ups in their respective industries.
Andrew Bellay is the VC & Money editor of AlwaysOn. Feel free to send me cool content, new products you'd like reviewed, or any crazy idea and I'll check it out: andrew@aonetwork.com. 
Greg Gretsch
on July 09, 2010 
As I mentioned in my response to his comment, I am a huge fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books - The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness. In Fooled by Randomness, NNT expounds at great length on how often times people confuse the fact that they have been lucky with a belief that they are really just smarter than everyone else. As he says, randomness plays a much bigger role in how successful you can be at some professions than others. For example, the degree of success of a nurse or a doctor has much less to do with randomness than say that of a venture capitalist (his example). It's difficult to argue with luck playing a part in the magnitude of any win. Anyone who was a part of the startup scene during the bubble knows well that there were many >$1B exits that in any other market may not have been able to make any money at all.
Greg Gretsch is a Managing Director at Sigma Partners, in Menlo Park, CA. He was an three-time entrepreneur before moving over to the dark side in 2000. He's also an active blogger at Dispatches From The Darkside. 
