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FirstRain is growing: New VP Marketing and New India GM

19 Apr 2011 /in

I am excited to announce today that Ryan Warren joined FirstRain as Vice President of Marketing and that Aparna Gupta has been promoted to Managing Director of FirstRain India. Recruiting an executive with Ryan’s experience, history of success, and track record of innovative thinking in B2B information solutions is another critical step on our exciting [...]

Ben Horowitz: CEO Psychology

07 Apr 2011 /in ,

Terrific article in TechCrunch last week by Ben Horowitz – What’s the Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing your own psychology. Managing inside my own head is by far the most difficult thing I do as a CEO and I appreciate Ben being so out and candid about what’s going on inside. As he says “Over [...]

Twitter feed on Japan economic impact added

25 Mar 2011 /in

In addition to creating a monitor to put an Eye on Japan’s Economy™ (which you can subscribe to here) we have also added a twitter feed of highlights on the same subject. You can follow @EOJE_FirstRain. @FirstRain_Japan. Like Eye on Japan’s Economy™, the Twitter feed will select highlights of articles on disruptive market developments in [...]

Monitoring the business and economic impact of Japan’s earthquake

23 Mar 2011 /in

We are all shocked and saddened by the terrible events in Japan over the last two weeks, and our thoughts are with the people of Northern Japan impacted by the tsunami. We have also been watching the impact of this disaster on the world’s markets and the potential disruption to products and supply chains and [...]

Create, Aggregate and … Interrelate?

17 Mar 2011 /in , ,

With all this focus on the schism between the forces that ‘Create’ and ‘Aggregate’ content, there’s another critical element out there that’s just as powerful but sometimes is overlooked: let’s call it ‘Interrelate’.

Misreading the seismic shift HuffPo represents

15 Mar 2011 /in ,

There is a seismic shift going on that is continuing to shake the foundations of journalism. The intellectual view was well captured in an editorial by NYT executive editor Bill Keller – while the commercial reality is impossible to avoid as you can see in this chart from Business Insider on the drop in ad [...]

International Women’s Day in our India office

09 Mar 2011 /in ,

It was International Women’s Day yesterday and our Gurgaon team celebrated the day by giving roses to each of our female employees in the Gurgaon office and taking them out to lunch. You can see a picture of most of our our female team members below. FirstRain is an unusual company in that so many [...]

The End of Do-It-Yourself

08 Mar 2011 /in ,

Do you remember those futuristic articles or stories we’d read in the 80’s that talked about how with technology we would work less and have more time to recreate? Technology was going to free us from the shackles of our desk… Well, that is possible, if you actually wanted to change it; a change in the way we gather information, analyze it, make decisions, and translate strategy into tactics.

RIM has some new, unwelcome, partners

03 Mar 2011 /in ,

It’s interesting to look at the smartphone choice our users have made across different markets. We conducted a survey a couple of weeks ago and found, to not too much surprise, that a blackberry is still a necessity in the corporate environment but often not enough.

If Video Killed the Radio Star…Who Killed Borders?

01 Mar 2011 /in

I was so very sad to see the news that Borders is failing and has not being able to keep up with the digital era. I saw it with Tower Records — falling to iTunes and other downloadable music; Blockbuster  –falling to Netflix, and now Borders falling to…Amazon’s Kindle? Barnes and Noble’s Nook?

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