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		<title>Party at Larry's Crib: NetSuite's 10th Anniversary Dinner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BoomTown has been lagging in getting up this lovely video I did from a dinner party last Thursday, thrown for NetSuite's tenth anniversary, which was held at one of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison's many houses--this one in the tony Pacific Heights section of San Francisco.

NetSuite is one of the pioneers in the broadly termed software-as-a-service space, selling an "integrated web-based business software suite." Sounds dull? Yep!

But the party was not and, actually, this is an important topic, as businesses actually do begin to embrace the idea of putting themselves increasingly in the so-called cloud.]]></description>
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<p>BoomTown has been lagging in getting up this lovely video I did from a dinner party last Thursday, thrown for NetSuite&#8217;s tenth anniversary, which was held at one of billionaire Oracle founder Larry Ellison&#8217;s many houses&#8211;this one in the tony Pacific Heights section of San Francisco.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.netsuite.com">NetSuite</a> (N) is one of the pioneers in the broadly termed software-as-a-service space, selling an &#8220;integrated web-based business software suite, including Accounting software/ERP software, CRM software, and Ecommerce software.&#8221; Essentially, that&#8217;s hosted software solutions for medium-sized businesses or divisions of larger companies.</p>
<p><em>Zzzzzzzzzz</em>, right?</p>
<p>Actually, it is an important topic, as businesses actually do begin to embrace the idea of putting themselves increasingly in the so-called cloud, which is Silicon Valley&#8217;s trendiest term du jour.</p>
<p>It is a topic, in fact, that Microsoft is going to be blabbing about all week, starting today. The SaaS space, including its cloud computing efforts, will be Topic A at its <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081024/whats-up-at-microsofts-professional-developers-conference-hint-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-amazon-pain/">Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles</a>. </p>
<p>In any case, after a lovely tour of Ellison&#8217;s house&#8211;Ellison co-founded the company with former Oracle (ORCL) exec Evan Goldberg and has been a major NetSuite investor&#8211;by NetSuite&#8217;s PR guru Brooke Hammerling, and some dinner chatter, I did an interesting video interview with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson about the direction of the sector.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video:</p>
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		<title>Meet the VC: Hummer Winblad's Mitchell Kertzman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been remiss in posting our meet-the-VCs-of-Silicon-Valley-if-you-dare video feature, what with all the Yahoo goings-on to keep track of. But we are back with another riveting episode, with guest star Mitchell Kertzman of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. 
A longtime tech exec, Kertzman is one of the funniest players in the tech sector, and was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have been remiss in posting our meet-the-VCs-of-Silicon-Valley-if-you-dare video feature, what with all the Yahoo goings-on to keep track of. But we are back with another riveting episode, with guest star Mitchell Kertzman of <a href="http://www.humwin.com">Hummer Winblad Venture Partners</a>. </p>
<p>A longtime tech exec, Kertzman is one of the funniest players in the tech sector, and was once the font for all the best jokes about Microsoft, back in the day when no one made jokes about Microsoft for fear of digital defenestration.</p>
<p>Today, Kertzman is actually much more serious, focused on the business-to-business part of the Web 2.0 world, rather than the more popular consumer-facing areas into which most VCs have been pumping oodles of money. </p>
<p>While Kertzman was early into the widget trend&#8211;in fact, he was the first to say the word to me at a Demo conference where he was showing off the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com">Widgetbox</a>, the widget directory startup, a moment for which I shall never forgive him</a>&#8211;his new focus is on companies like <a href="http://www.sliderocket.com">SlideRocket</a>, the online presentation application, and other Web-based productivity products like it.</p>
<p>Yes, I swear, SaaS&#8211;Software as Service&#8211;can be interesting! Really!</p>
<p>We also liven things up with some chatting about too-high valuations and thoughts on the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover battle, as well as the recession.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video of Kertzman:</p>
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