Chris Shipley Quotations

We're seeing a lot more activity, a lot more energy, a lot more companies.

New business must be built on real market needs, ... not just college students hoping for a home-run IPO.

What impresses me more than anything when we look at the economy and we say, 'Things aren't going so well' is to see what great technology is really happening here.

Kaboodle.com is a great example of people-powered search, allowing the work of one to be leveraged for the benefits of others.

Location based services use the mobile medium to the fullest, allowing a person to experience the world around them as never before. Smarter Agent gives new importance to the phrase: location, location, location.

I think I'm fortunate that so many people talk to me about the products they're developing, the technologies they are working on, the ideas they have,

I think it will be awhile before we have casual conversations like this with our computers, ... but I think we're getting there much faster than we might have thought.

I wanted to find some products that had broader implications than just our ability to send e-mail faster or share photographs,

DEMO continues to be a successful platform because it is focused on new products -- and who isn't a product geek at heart? DEMO 2006 has launched into the marketplace a stunning and varied collection of compelling business efficiency tools, consumer services, network optimizers, and enabling technologies that are designed to make life and work easier, more enjoyable, richer. This is an exciting moment in our industry, as the DEMO 2006 demonstrators prove: the innovations are first class and investor interest is overwhelming. The technology market is on the rise again.

You no longer have to miss the action because you ran to the restroom.

Don't confuse simplistic with simple. It takes great technology to make a product simple.

The bottleneck of PC computing is the laborious nature of hierarchical command structures. It limits the user experience and leads to feature underutilization. The 205PRO can dramatically change this. In commercial applications, the productivity improvement is direct and measurable. For the rest of us, it makes software more interactive and engaging.

The benefits of IM are undeniable for businesses, yet the security risks and challenges are paramount for many organizations that are considering widespread IM implementation for their networks. The Barracuda IM Firewall is the first complete solution to allow organizations to harness the power of IM while eliminating the security risks.

It takes time for old industries to reinvent themselves. I think we are seeing that in the music industry.

Small businesses are moving onto the Internet at a phenomenal rate, ... A number of hardware and software companies are offering turnkey packages for catalog-building and e-commerce that will allow just about anybody to get on the Net.

There's a belief that whatever it is I'm looking for is out there, but I have a really difficult time finding it. Search algorithms alone are falling short in being able to provide real context around information.

A key part of helping startups is providing them with a G/SCORE that measures a company on the path to sustainability. We score companies from around the world and use Knoodle so they can easily sync video and presentations together for a more effective pitch. We send these pitches to judges all around the world and it's critical that we have a flexible tool that is easy to create, easy to deliver, and effective at letting audiences understand the entrepreneur and their innovation.

System uptime, data protection, and identity theft are weighty issues. It takes real ingenuity to out-think the fraudsters who are trying to steal identities and hack into enterprise systems. The 12 smart companies that debuted security solutions today at DEMO have designed serious, and seriously clever, innovations.

The market is emerging from a long nap. While some were sleeping, others were working to establish a market position, and now they are ready to claim what they have earned. I suspect we're in for a velocity change, spurred on by Web 2.0.