Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan
Peter S. Cohan is an American businessman, author, venture capitalist, and financier...
competing forms managers mind product share
Product managers are in two forms of competition. They're competing with other vendors, but they're also often competing for share of mind with other product managers.
excited people
Mainframes just don't get people excited any more.
boxes chairs deck hiring large move moving saw seems
It seems like they are moving deck chairs around on the Titanic. When I saw the announcement, it sounded like some large bureaucratic organization hiring McKinsey to move boxes around.
blind instead serious trust
If he was really serious about being independent, he would have had a real blind trust -- instead of a seeing-eye-dog trust.
demos god help longer minutes
Most demos take 20 minutes or 40 minutes or -- God help you -- longer to get to the point.
apple attractive digital drives flash footprints form hard higher introduce lower memory music performance price quicker smaller storage trends
As Apple and its competitors introduce ever-smaller form factors, flash memory will need to have a higher storage capacity, quicker retrieval speeds, smaller footprints and lower prices. These performance and price trends will make it more economically attractive for manufacturers to swap flash for miniature hard drives in cars, digital music players, and laptops.