Our Investment in Boundary July 10, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Infrastructure, Portfolio In every investment we make at ScaleVP, we look for two things, broad market trends and great execution. Boundary has both. Read more
Will Box and Dropbox Tackle the Giants? June 18, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends In the next ten years, consumers and businesses will move much of their file storage to the cloud... Read more
You Want to be a Founder? Don’t Do it May 31, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends Every ambitious self-respecting 20-something suddenly wants to do a start-up. That's the road to ruin. Read more
The Ultimatum: Go Global or Go Home April 10, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends What to do when your biggest customer tells you that, essentially, your company is too small for them. Read more
Why Would The Senate Vote No on JOBS? March 19, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends The Senate is considering the JOBS bill this week. The bill looks to make it easier for companies to go public by reducing some of the cost... Read more
Why Everyone Lies About Pricing March 14, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends It's hard enough to find the right price for your product or service — without everyone lying to you about it. Read more
Mining the Gap – DST and the IPO Gap February 2, 2012 Rory O'Driscoll Trends The time to buy is when everyone else is selling. The dearth of venture backed IPO's in the last decade, with almost none in 2009... Read more
Scooping the Big Pot – Venture Capital Since 2007 November 15, 2011 Rory O'Driscoll Trends When Facebook goes public, the Russian venture capital firm DST, will be one of the largest investors in the most significant technology... Read more
SaaS and the Cloud Ten Years In August 15, 2011 Rory O'Driscoll Trends I recently had to give a talk on trends in SaaS and the cloud. Attached is the full Powerpoint. Read more
The Next Ten Years in SaaS July 6, 2011 Rory O'Driscoll Trends The SaaS business has now hit early middle age and the best way to think about it is to compare it to the client server revolution... Read more