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Posted Capital Markets, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Startupsin
03 Sunday Aug 2014
Capital Markets, Dow, E-Trade, entrepreneur, Fidelity, Internet Bubble, Investing, Market Corrections, risk, S&P, Schwab, Stock Market
Since the start of the bull market in March 2009, the S&P has gained a whopping 225%, including dividends. Impressive indeed.
This past week the S&P experienced a healthy whacking. The market was looking for an excuse to sell off. Argentina's default, Middle East conflicts, Ukraine, disappointing corporate earnings, all good excuses.
Bull markets need to pause and correct from time to time. Retracements are constructive.
I will not bore you with my take on current fundamentals or technicals as to why the market is where it is or where it is heading.
Rather, I will share two simple thoughts as to why I think the market is still in the early stages of an enormous bull run taking the Dow to unimaginable heights.
#1 The retail investor has yet to participate in any meaningful way.
Until the market gets widespread retail distribution of equities we are far from any top. When your cab driver gives you investment advice, cocktail party talk reverts to hot stock tips and SEO specialists become Day Traders, this bull market is intact.
The individual investor will return in due course providing the fuel for much higher markets. Good news for E-trade, Fidelity, Schwab. (Most of these online trading platforms allow you to set up an account in which you can trade with "play money" so you can get a feel for how the markets work.)
#2 The market will go higher because most expect it won't.
Most Wall Street pundits did not foresee nor call the crash of 2008.
Most Wall Street pundits did not foresee nor call the remarkable S&P recovery since 2009.
Most Wall Street pundits are looking for the market to sell off considerably, stabilize at current levels or have a very moderate increase over the next year or two. A clear sign to me the markets are going much higher.
One of the best known sayings on Wall Street is: "The Trend Is Your Friend". The trend is upwards. Dow 25,000 here we come.
P.S. There is much talk about an "internet bubble". Although I do agree valuations for many of these startups and grownups are beyond remarkable, it is difficult for any bubble to be pricked when control of the asset class is held by few. I'd relish the opportunity to short into some of these funding rounds but no such vehicle exists – yet.
06 Sunday Jul 2014
barber, Business, Education, entrepreneurship, hard work, Integrity, persistence, Small Business, success
By Jeff Robinson
Bi-weekly I like to visit a barber. I like my hair to be short and tidy. A good barber can buzz cut me in 5-7 minutes. Tack on a shave and you are good to go in 15 minutes.
When I first arrived in Barcelona a friend introduced me to a "stylist" who charged me E27 for 15 minutes work, 5 minutes of cutting and 10 minutes of him talking – about himself. The cut was good, (difficult really, to mess up a buzz cut) but E27 was outrageous. Walking about my neighbourhood I stumbled upon the chain Marco Aldany. Very nice facilities and E12 for the cut. Price/Value getting better but still not where I thought it ought to be. One day I cycled down to the El Born district. Eureka! Barber shops everywhere: "Haircut E5″. Then I spotted one at E4. Is it possible? How could you earn a decent living charging E4 a cut?
12 years ago Umair Qamar M.Sc.(Eng) arrived in Barcelona from his hometown state of Gujarat, India. Like so many, Umair came to Barcelona with high hopes and dreams. He wanted badly to be an engineer. For 2 years he pounded the pavement in search of a job. He took on odd jobs to earn enough income to survive, not once ever depending on any government handouts. His tireless search for employment was fruitless. He came to the realization that he would not be able to use his professional engineering skills. So what to do?
Umair's father has owned and operated a small 1 seat barber shop in Gujarat for 57 years. His dad has cut over 500,000 heads of hair in his career. His dad charges 1E equivalent per cut and the seat in his shop is always filled. He does about 30 cuts a day earning E40 – E50 equivalent a day with tips – a very good income for the area.
Umair had a thought. If my dad can earn a good wage, support his family, have disposable income for the occasional holiday and be liked by everybody – why not give it a try.
Umair had saved enough money to rent out a small shop in the El Born. He painted the premises, cleaned and made it spotless. He bought a used chair in good condition. He had only one question before opening his doors for business. What do I charge? Umair spent the next couple of days scoping out the competition. He concluded that all the shops were basically the same. So how could he differentiate himself from the others? A call to his dad and he had the answers.
(His dad's answers, slightly adapted)
#1 "Dress for success! Wear a nicely pressed pair of pants and a clean shirt. Make sure to be well coiffed, after all you are a barber. Be clean-shaven. Smell clean and fresh."
#2 "Keep the store not just clean, but extra clean. Show your customers you care."
#3 "Keep your price just below the competition and offer more. Finish each cut with a 2 minute Indian head massage. The customers will leave with a big smile. They will tell their friends to come. You will earn extra income from tips."
#4 "Cut with intensity and precision. Make sure every line is straight and never ever miss a hair. Triple check your work."
#5 "Have interesting wisdom to share with your clients. Read a lot. Be a good listener."
#6 "Work hard long hours each and every day. 7 days a week. 9am till 9pm. One hour for lunch to regain your strength and focus."
#7 "Be courteous to all in your neighbourhood, they will become your customers."
#8 "Remember your customer's names. Greet them with a big smile and hello. Thank them for coming when they leave. They will feel special."
#9 "Exercise daily. Your mind and body will need it."
#10 "Invest in a comfortable pair of dress shoes."
Fast forward to the present. Umair owns 3 barber shops. He is married with 4 children. He takes 2 weeks holiday per year. He cuts on average 40 heads a day. His overhead is negligible. Do the math, he's earning a very good living. In his spare time he uses his engineering expertise to fix electronic equipment for others.
"My goal is to cut 500,000 heads just like my father. I will have earned a very good honest living through hard work." Umair said. He added:" Make your customers happy, they will always return and bring friends."
Simple sage advice…
01 Tuesday Jul 2014
Posted Education, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior and Motivationin
Communication, confidence, critical thinking, decision process, Education, ego, Emotional intelligence, Human Behavior, prejudices, scepticism
For about thirteen years after they first start school, most Western children engage in their life's most intense period of knowledge gathering. Yet many finish their secondary education without the ability to objectively analyse that vast trove of knowledge. That's because the emphasis of most formal education systems is on teaching children how to acquire knowledge, rather than how to evaluate it. That skill, essential for making informed judgements, is called "critical thinking."
Not all schools are the same, of course. Some do build critical thinking into the curriculum, and their students benefit from it while studying and throughout their lives. But, if we're not lucky enough to have attended one of those schools, can we learn critical thinking later in life? There's no doubt that we can. We just need to learn and practice the following five basic techniques:
#1 Be sceptical.
Intelligent scepticism means not blindly accepting other people's opinions. We respect those views because we assume that they're based on objective evaluation and analysis. Yet we allow for the possibility that they're methods were not sufficiently thorough. In any case, we know that, even with the same data, we may well come to different conclusions
#2 Examine ourselves.
Our first response to solving a new problem is to rely on knowledge we already have. Unless the issue is very simple, however, that existing knowledge is unlikely to be adequate, objective, and specific to the new problem simply because the problem is new. Relying on our existing knowledge is partly an evolutionary reflex response and it is vital in a crisis, especially when further information is not readily available. In non-crisis situations, however, we seldom have to rely solely on our existing knowledge. Yet people attempt to solve problems every day with just that knowledge. Not surprisingly, it rarely produces satisfactory results. Critical thinkers solve new problems by examining the accuracy and objectivity of their existing information, and then obtain whatever new data they need to make a final judgement.
#3 Examine our audience.
This is an extension of examining ourselves because we sometimes let our audience affect our thinking. We may tweak the information to match what the audience likes to hear in order to massage our egos, or to elicit a specific response that benefits us. This may be dishonest, but it doesn't mean it lacks critical thinking. The lack of critical thinking happens when we do this unconsciously, when we're not aware that the audience is influencing the way we think.
#4 Examine our own prejudices.
Related to the second technique above, we must have the unbiased information in order to make informed decisions. Yet some of our sincere beliefs may be flawed or even wrong. It's confronting to challenge those beliefs, but it's crucial for critical thinking.
#5 We should not be afraid of not knowing.
Few things get in the way of critical thinking more effectively than ego. Ego stops us saying, "I don't know," sometimes even to ourselves. Ego tells us that such admissions are signs of weakness. In reality, they're merely telling the truth. (See my blog "Pitch and Toss – business Presentations and Preparedness.") The truth is a great mind cleanser; it eliminates confusing mental garbage. The biblical advice "the truth will set you free" is spot on. Unless we are honest with ourselves, we will never be free to think critically.
To sum up:
When we have to make important decisions, we must never rush the process regardless of the time pressure. We should put our egos aside and examine the arguments, both for and against, with healthy scepticism. If necessary, we should gather relevant additional information to help in our decision process. Finally, we need to pause, stand back, and carefully reflect on the overall issue, whatever it may be, before reaching our conclusion. That is the basis of critical thinking. It takes time, but by taking our time, we avoid wasting our time and that of others.
P.S. Happy Canada Day!
19 Thursday Jun 2014
Posted Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior and Motivation, Startupsin
By Jeff Robinson
At the World Cup in Brazil, the top football superstars are demonstrating their rare mental and physical abilities. But it is the strikers' skills that stand out and excite our imaginations. These brilliant athletes constantly compute every other player's location on the field and the ball's trajectory like master chess players, but with the speed of a supercomputer. Each striker is primed, waiting to deliver a deadly shot at goal when the moment presents itself. When it does, he blocks out all other thoughts and focuses solely on his body, the ball, and the goal. You have to feel sorry for the goalkeeper.
Analogies with team sports are common in business. Successful companies, like successful football squads, are blends of magical teamwork, inspiring leadership, and individual brilliance. In business, entrepreneurs are the strikers. They're the ones who deliver the goals and do it by focusing on one task at a time. They may appear to multitask because they are always clearly aware of all the jobs in their schedules. But they process each one separately, and, when they do, they give each one their full and undivided attention. That's a form of strategic, operational focus.
Strategic operational focus doesn't happen merely by deciding to focus on a particular task instead of on others. Most of us have many potential work-related tasks that we could perform at any given time. The problem is that all those tasks create a confusing drone of "background noise" in our minds while we're trying to deal with any one of them. Too much of our attention is taken up with worries about the other tasks we need to carry out, and often we're not even clear which tasks really have to be done. Not surprisingly, we have difficulty deciding which task we should do first, so we usually take the easy way out and pick the least demanding one. Our minds are like an untidy house where finding anything is a time-consuming, daunting chore. (See my blog "Clutter – The Invisible Chains That Impede Our Success.") In that inefficient scenario, it's impossible to fully focus on any one task, so each one takes longer to complete and rarely turns out as well as it could. Luckily, there's a simple solution.
We need to adopt a strategy similar to that of the great football strikers. They're acutely aware of everything happening around them, yet become instantly laser focused when called on to perform their primary task – shooting at goal. For business people, it's a straightforward three-step strategy that each of us can easily implement. First, we must make a list of all the tasks that need to be carried out. Second, with an erasable felt-tip marker, we must write the most urgent of those tasks – preferably no more than six – on a small white board positioned near our desk. This board and its urgent list of tasks should be permanently and easily visible to us as we work. A computer or other electronic device is not suitable for this purpose.
Those first two steps have near magical properties because they clarify our entire task schedule and eliminate the confusing background noise. With that mental clarity, we can take the final crucial step, namely, fully focusing on whichever single task we decide to tackle. That's how smart entrepreneurs build successful businesses and great football players reach the World Cup.
P.S. I just finished reading two great books I highly recommend:
#1 The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
#2 Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
P.S.S. I'm super excited to be moving into our new offices in Barcelona. If you are a local or visiting from out-of-town, shoot me a note – it would be pleasure to show you what we are up to. And yes, whiteboards are everywhere in the office.
02 Monday Jun 2014
Posted Education, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior and Motivation, Startupsin
Business Presentations, Communication, confidence, entrepreneurship, persistence, Pitching, Preparedness, skill
A business presentation is a powerful tool. When it's delivered by a top-class presenter to an important audience, it can motivate staff, encourage partners, excite customers, and reassure investors. But a presentation is a double-edged sword, as dangerous as it is valuable. In the wrong hands it can frighten off investors and customers, demoralize partners, and demotivate staff.
The game of pitch-and-toss is a good metaphor for a business presentation because it combines skill and luck. The player who pitches a coin nearest to a mark earns the right to toss the other players' coins into the air and wins the ones that land heads up. In business presentations, pitching the message close to the mark is vital. It means the message is clear and clicks with the audience. That never happens by chance. What happens by chance is the audience response. A good presenter anticipates much of that response through thorough preparation. Continue reading »
19 Monday May 2014
Posted Education, Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior and Motivation, Startupsin
Business, confidence, Emotional intelligence, entrepreneur, extraverts, failure, introverts, management, psychological makeup, recession, success
By Jeff Robinson
I have a friend who ran his own business for eleven years. Each year, the company's profits grew, and in the tenth year, it employed over a hundred people. In the eleventh year, its two biggest customers went out of business because of the recession. A year later, the company went bust. What struck me most at the time was that, despite the fact that my friend had created the business from nothing, built it into a successful company, and that its collapse had nothing to do with him, he regarded himself as a failure.
I know other people whose businesses failed due to circumstances similarly outside their control, but who never felt like failures. I also know a few who failed because of their own bad management, but who believed they were in no way to blame. Continue reading »
17 Saturday May 2014
By Jeff Robinson
Barcelona is a beautiful city. The citizens, weather, cuisine, arts and culture and beaches are just some of the ingredients that make it so special. Barcelona is on most everybody's travel destination bucket list.
I moved to Barcelona in late 2010. The economy was indeed suffering. You couldn't have a conversation with a local without hearing the word "crisis". My contrarian mind began to machinate. Where are the opportunities?
Why do I think real estate prices are ready to rise, dramatically? Continue reading »
05 Monday May 2014
Posted Entrepreneurship, Human Behavior and Motivation, Internet, Startupsin
aniti-malware, Dashlane, Eric Snowden, Heartbleed, Internet security, John Wanamaker, Microsoft IE, NSA, Symantec
When we leave our house, we lock the doors and turn on the alarm. If we wander into a rundown neighborhood in a strange city, we become wary, especially after dark. Yet, when we go online, many of us throw caution to the wind and act as if the worst thing that could happen to us is boredom.
With its estimated ten billion networked computers and other devices, the Internet forms an environment so vast and complex that, even if humans were able to adequately police it and prevent malicious activity (which seems highly unlikely), we could never be certain no vulnerabilities remained. The system's constant growth coupled with smarter criminals makes the Internet simultaneously more useful and more dangerous. Continue reading »

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Two years, 24 candidates, over 30 debates, 54 primaries and caucuses and one election night later, we have a new president. On Tuesday, January 20, Sen. Barack Obama will take the oath-of-office, becoming the 44th president in our nation's history.
For those of us who covered the election — reporters, producers, editors, bloggers, web developers, engineers, and more — the moment represents the end of a journey, perhaps not as long or as arduous as the candidate's path to the White House but it's been an enormous and gratifying challenge nonetheless.
It seems an appropriate time to launch our new blog — ABCNews.com Behind-the-Scenes — in advance of this historic day when the nation looks forward to talk about what we here on ABC News' digital team will be doing in and for the future of our business.
Over the next few days, there will be no more anticipated event than Barack Obama's oath of office and inaugural address. In recognition of that moment, we here at ABCNews.com have a simple goal: provide the best, highest quality video of the moment in the easiest way for the user.
To that end, for the first time, we're put a live, 16:9 widescreen feed of the Inauguration embedded right at the top of our home page. No clicks, no video players, just the live event delivered straight to the user on http://abcnews.com. And we tip our collective hats to the leader of our web development team Marc Rullo for tackling this project (despite post-election exhaustion).
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Check our "Guide to the Inauguration" where you can find out all about ABC News' coverage both online and on-air throughout the weekend — from Barack Obama and Joe Biden's train ride into Washington on Saturday, the star-studded "We Are One" celebration on Sunday, to the volunteer activities in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday.
On inauguration day itself, ABCNews reporters will be out in force to bring the very latest reporting and analysis on the official events and the historic crowds expected to descend on our nation's capital (and endure the cold).
ABC's Juju Chang will be looking at it all from a slightly different perspective, as she roams the city, attempting to experience the inauguration from multiple vantage points – armed with a Flip video camera, an i-Phone, a Blackberry and a laptop. She'll be blogging on her new blog, Juju Jugles, Twittering and updating her Facebook page all day – sign up and follow Juju and find out what the experience is like in the thick of it and who she meets along the way.
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SLUSH Conference, HELSINKI Finland, November 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Blaast offers for the first time in the world tailored app data packages to smartphone users within XL Axiata's network in Indonesia
- The leading cloud-based mobile app platform, Blaast, expands to Android with collaboration with Sony Mobile on their new Xperia™ J
Blaast, the leading cloud-based mobile app platform, expands its offering from feature phones to entry-level Android devices and launches its Android service in collaboration with Sony Mobile and XL Axiata.
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Operators are looking for new monetization models to address consumers who are increasingly shifting to data heavy smartphones. Consumers state mobile apps as the primary reason for their shift to smartphones. At the same time smartphone data plans powering their app usage are expensive and inflexible especially in emerging markets. In relation to gross-national income, consumers in emerging markets pay 5-10 times more for data than in the US (based on data from the International Monetary Fund).
Tailored smartphone data packages for the first time in the world
Blaast introduces tailored data packages as a solution to match consumers need to use apps in an affordable and safe way with operator's business model requirements.
"The idea with tailored data packages is that users can buy data for their favourite apps in a flexible way. For example, a user might want to use a music streaming service for a day at a time, but browse Facebook and Whatsapp on a monthly basis. We can enable users to hand pick data for their apps for any given time," says JoonasHjelt, CEO and cofounder, Blaast.
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Blaast's cloud-based app store will launch in Indonesia pre-installed on Sony's new device Xperia™ J, an Android Smartphone with 4-inch display, beefy battery, 1GHz processor and 5-megapixel camera.
The service will make its debut in Indonesia in collaboration with the key operator partner XL Axiata, the second biggest mobile operator in Indonesia who will offer an inexpensive unlimited Blaast Apps data plan for 5 USD / month with 20 locally popular apps.
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Blaast has built its cloud-based app platform especially for emerging markets, where networks are extremely busy and data is inaccessibly expensive for end-users. The service has its roots in the same cloud technology that already powers millions of users using Blaast feature phone service in Southeast Asia. Its key features are the ability to build a la carte data packages for smartphone apps, reduce data consumption through caching and compression and recognise real time usage patterns to introduce safe data controls for end-users and instantaneous on-device upselling opportunities for operators.
"Blaast aims to be the consumer's champion for using mobile apps. We want to offer people's favourite apps for less data and less money around the world. The pre-installation of Blaast on Sony Xperia™ J and first availability through XL Axiata is a great milestone for us in reaching our vision," says JoonasHjelt.
Slush, Northern Europe's leading startup conference takes place yearly in Helsinki, Finland. Slush brings together the early-stage startup scene from Northern Europe and Russia with top-tier angel investors and venture capitalists. Slush is organised by Helsinki-based accelerator Startup Sauna. For more information about Slush contact Charlotta Liukas, [email protected].
About Blaast
Blaast brings mobile apps to the next billion people. By using the revolutionary approach of running mobile apps in the cloud, and not on the device, Blaast brings rich, always-on apps to feature phones. The Blaast ecosystem consists of a vibrant 3rd party developer community, mobile operators and handset manufacturers whose goal is to provide high quality apps and user experience to mobile subscribers. Blaast's investors include the founding engineers of Skype (Ambient Sound Investment), Veturi Venture Accelerator, Steve Blank, and ex-Nokia SVP Pekka Vartiainen. Blaast has headquarters in Finland and presence in emerging Internet markets.
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For more information contact Joonas Hjelt, CEO, Co-founder, Blaast on +358-405-610-201 or [email protected].
SYS-CON Events announced today that robomq.io will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. robomq.io is an interoperable and composable platform that connects any device to any application. It helps systems integrators and the solution providers build new and innovative products and service for industries requiring monitoring or intelligence from devices and sensors.
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The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding bu...
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Today, IT is not just a cost center. IT is an enabler and driver of business. With the emergence of the hybrid cloud paradigm, IT now has increasingly more capabilities to create new strategic opportunities for a business. Hybrid cloud allows an organization to utilize multi-tenant public clouds, dedicated private clouds, bare metal hosting, and the associated support and services for the right use cases through an on-demand, XaaS model. This model of IT creates tremendous opportunities for busi...
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Business as usual for IT is evolving into a "Make or Buy" decision on a service-by-service conversation with input from the LOBs. How does your organization move forward with cloud? In his general session at 16th Cloud Expo, Paul Maravei, Regional Sales Manager, Hybrid Cloud and Managed Services at Cisco, discusses how Cisco and its partners offer a market-leading portfolio and ecosystem of cloud infrastructure and application services that allow you to uniquely and securely combine cloud busi...
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Businesses are looking to empower employees and departments to do more, go faster, and streamline their processes. For all workers – but mobile workers especially – utilizing the cloud to reconnect documents and improve processes without destructing existing workflows can have a dramatic impact on productivity. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Mark Grilli, vice president of Acrobat Solutions marketing at Adobe Systems Incorporated, will outline new ways that the cloud is changing the way peo...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Litmus Automation will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Litmus Automation's vision is to provide a solution for companies that are in a rush to embrace the disruptive Internet of Things technology and leverage it for real business challenges. Litmus Automation simplifies the complexity of connected devices applications with Loop, a secure and scalable clou...
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As Marc Andreessen says software is eating the world. Everything is rapidly moving toward being software-defined – from our phones and cars through our washing machines to the datacenter. However, there are larger challenges when implementing software defined on a larger scale - when building software defined infrastructure. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Boyan Ivanov, CEO of StorPool, will provide some practical insights on what, how and why when implementing "software-defined" in the dat...
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With the arrival of the Big Data revolution, a data professional is expected to master a broad spectrum of complex domains including data processing, mathematics, programming languages, machine learning techniques, and business knowledge. While this mastery is undoubtedly important, this narrow focus on tool usage has divorced many from the imagination required to solve real-world problems. As the demand for analysis increases, the data science community must transform from tool experts to "data...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Solgenia will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Solgenia is the global market leader in Cloud Collaboration and Cloud Infrastructure software solutions. Designed to "Bridge the Gap" between Personal and Professional S...
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WSM International has launched a DevOps services division that offers assessment, consulting and implementation to large enterprises and organizations with complex infrastructures. The concept of DevOps is to blend information technology (IT) software development with operations to optimize the computing infrastructure according to the specific needs of the organization. According to a recent press release from Gartner, "By 2016, DevOps will evolve from a niche strategy employed by large cloud ...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that QTS Realty Trust, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing providers of data center facilities and cloud services and a leader in security and compliance, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) is a leading national provider of data center solutions and fully managed services, and a leader in security and compliance...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that WSM International (WSM), the world's leading cloud and server migration services provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. WSM is a solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation and DevOps services.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MangoApps will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY., and the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. MangoApps provides private all-in-one social intranets allowing workers to securely collaborate from anywhere in the world and from any device. Social, mobile, and eas...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Emcien will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Emcien's vision is to let anyone use data to know the future. Emcien has built an automated, predictive analysis product that improves the lives of real people. Emcien allows people to automate their data analysis so they can build a better future.
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The speed of software changes in growing and large scale rapid-paced DevOps environments presents a challenge for continuous testing. Many organizations struggle to get this right. Practices that work for small scale continuous testing may not be sufficient as the requirements grow. In his session at DevOps Summit, Marc Hornbeek, Sr. Solutions Architect of DevOps continuous test solutions at Spirent Communications, will explain the best practices of continuous testing at high scale, which is r...
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, will discuss how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at...
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One of the hottest areas in cloud right now is DRaaS and related offerings. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Dale Levesque, Disaster Recovery Product Manager with Windstream's Cloud and Data Center Marketing team, will discuss the benefits of the cloud model, which far outweigh the traditional approach, and how enterprises need to ensure that their needs are properly being met.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that the DevOps Institute has been named "Association Sponsor" of SYS-CON's DevOps Summit, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. The DevOps Institute provides enterprise level training and certification. Working with thought leaders from the DevOps community, the IT Service Management field and the IT training market, the DevOps Institute is setting the standard in quality for DevOps education and training.
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Even though it's now Microservices Journal, long-time fans of SOA World Magazine can take comfort in the fact that the URL – soa.sys-con.com – remains unchanged. And that's no mistake, as microservices are really nothing more than a new and improved take on the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices we struggled to hammer out over the last decade. Skeptics, however, might say that this change is nothing more than an exercise in buzzword-hopping. SOA is passé, and now that people are ...
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In an homage to the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's passing on August 5, 1962, Drybar and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment are offering a limited-time Old Fashioned hairstyle through the month of August. The retro-inspired blowout-only salon features super-feminine finishes, such as oversized antique mirrors, yellow blow-dryer chandeliers, and black-and-whites of screen sirens (Monroe included), making it the perfect spot to pay tribute to the late legend.
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A method of fabricating a dielectrically-isolated structure is disclosed rein the structure includes a layer of silicide which is selectively doped, preferably using an ion implantation process. The doped silicide is then used as the diffusion source for the subsequent formation (through a heat treatment) of various active portions (collector, emitter, drain, source, for example) of a variety of high-voltage, high-speed active devices. The non-doped silicide is advantageously utilized as a low-resistance contact between the buried diffusion region and the surface electrode. In an alternative embodiment, bottom portions of the silicide contiguous to the tub are removed, leaving only vertical silicide portions adjacent to the sidewalls of the dielectrically isolated tub.
1. A method of forming a semiconductor device within a dielectrically isolated tub region of a silicon substrate, the method comprising the steps of:
a. forming a metal silicide layer within said tub so as to be contiguous with the dielectric isolation;
b. doping said silicide layer in a selective manner with an impurity of a predetermined conductivity type; and
c. heating said substrate to a temperature sufficient to diffuse the implanted impurities into the adjacent tub region, wherein said diffusion region is defined as an active portion of the semiconductor device structure.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein in performing step (a), the silicide layer is formed by directly depositing a layer of silicide material from the group consisting of Group IVB, VB, VIB or VIIB silicides.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein in performing step (a), the silicide layer is formed by depositing a layer of metal form the group consisting of Group IVB, VB, VIB or VIIB metals, and heating the substrate in a manner so that the silicon underlying the metal will react therewith so as to form the silicide.
4. The method according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein in performing step (a), the silicide layer is formed so as to completely cover the sidewalls and bottom of the tub.
5. The method according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein performing step (a), the silicide layer is selectively etched to remove predetermined portions thereof.
6. The method according to claim 5 wherein the etching is performed to remove the silicide adjacent to the bottom of the tub, so that the remaining silicide is adjacent only to the sidewalls of the tub.
7. The method according to claim 6 wherein reactive ion etching (RIE) is used to remove the bottom portion of the silicide layer.
8. The method according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein in performing step b), the doping is performed by an ion implantation process.
9. The method according to claim 8 wherein phosphorus is utilized as the dopant so as to create selected regions of n-type silicide.
10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the phosphorus comprises a dosage of approximately 1�1015 cm-2 and is implant with an energy of approximately 30 keV so as to create a silicide region with a dopant concentration of approximately 2�1019 cm-3.
11. The method according to claim 8 wherein boron is utilizes as the dopant so as to create selected regions of p-type silicide.
12. The method according to claims 1, 2 or 3 wherein in performing step (c), the substrate is heated to a temperature greater than 700� C.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the general field of dielectrically-isolated (DI) high-voltage devices and, more particularly, to a new class of devices which include selective areas of doped silicide used to fabricate high-speed, high-frequency devices.
2. Description of the Prior Art
For many high voltage applications, dielectric isolation is utilized to prevent interaction between adjacent integrated circuit devices formed on a common semiconductor substrate. Basically, dielectric isolation refers to the use of a layer of dielectric material (silicon dioxide, for example) to surround a region, or tub, containing a high-voltage device structure. As long as the reverse breakdown voltage of the dielectric is not surpassed, the high voltage devices will operate properly. One exemplary DI structure is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,593,458 issued to M S. Adler on June 10, 1986.
In the past, these DI device structures were often limited in the speed of their performance, primarily as a function of the sheet resistance of the material forming the tub region. One solution is to this problem is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,381,182 issued to C. G. Thornton on Apr. 30, 1968. Thornton teaches a DI structure which includes a silicide layer (MoSi2, for example) which is disposed to completely surround the dielectric (see FIG. 1c). As proposed by Thornton, this silicide layer thus makes a wide area contact between a buried low resistivity region (the bottom of the tub) and a higher resistivity collector region, thus significantly reducing the collector resistance and increasing the device speed.
Although this silicide layer is adequate in performing this function, there exist many other high-voltage device structures, both bipolar and MOS, which cannot enjoy the same benefits of this silicide wrap-around layer.
Thus, a need remains in the prior art for some means of providing improved speed performance to various devices formed in the high-voltage DI structure.
The need remaining in the prior art is addressed by the present invention which relates to a high-speed dielectrically isolated (DI) structure and, more particularly, to such a structure which utilizes buried sections of doped silicide to improve the speed of a variety of integrated device structures.
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, the conventional DI fabrication process is modified to allow for the inclusion of a silicide region or regions within the tub, adjacent to the isolation layer. An ion implant process is performed to selectively dope (either n-type or p-type, as required) the silicide. The structure is subsequently heated to diffuse the implanted impurities into the surrounding silicon substrate. The combination of the remaining undoped silicide with the diffused silicon regions is then used as one active region (i.e., collector, emitter, drain, source, etc.) of a variety of integrated circuit device structures.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the silicide layer is formed so as to completely surround the bottom and sidewalls of the DI tub, with the lower portion of the silicide region being ion implanted so as to subsequently form a diffusion region across the bottom of the tub (see FIG. 5).
In another embodiment of the present invention, the doped silicide is subject to a reactive ion etch (RIE) to remove all horizontal portions of the silicide. The types of devices formed from this structure thus include, in final form, silicide sidewalls with selected portions of the sidewalls containing an ion implanted impurity region (see FIG. 11).
A thorough understanding of the fabrication process of the present invention, as well as a description of some of the various devices which may be formed to include the doped silicide regions of the present invention will become apparent during the course of the following discussion and by reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring now to the drawings, where like numerals represent like elements in several views:
FIGS. 1-5 illustrate an exemplary process for fabricating a first generic DI structure to include a doped silicide region around the bottom of a DI tub;
FIGS. 6-8 illustrate three different integrated circuit devices (bipolar transistor, depletion-mode junction FET, and a dual-gate FET) which may be formed from the generic structure of FIG. 5;
FIGS. 9-11 are illustrative of an alternative fabrication process of the present invention which results in the formation of an alternative generic DI structure which includes doped silicide sidewalls within the tub region; and
FIGS. 12-14 are illustrative of three different devices (bipolar transistor, MOS field effect transistor, and junction field effect transistor, respectively) which may be formed in the generic structure illustrated in FIG. 11.
An exemplary process for fabricating a dielectrically isolated (DI) structure which includes a doped silicide region is illustrated in FIGS. 1-5. FIG. 1 illustrates the starting point for the fabrication process, where a substrate 10, here illustrated as being an n-type substrate, is covered with a masking layer 12. Masking layer 12 may simply be an oxide layer which is either grown or deposited over top surface 11 of substrate 12. A pair of windows 14 and 16 are opened in mask layer 12, where these windows serve to define the vertical walls of the final DI tub structure. The structure of FIG. 1 is then etched to remove a selected amount of the substrate material exposed by windows 14 and 16, as shown in FIG. 2. This etching results in the formation of a central substrate region 18 which will eventually form an exemplary tub region of the final DI structure. Subsequent to this etch, a silicide layer 20 is deposited to completely cover the exposed top surface of the silicon substrate. This silicide may be formed either by depositing an appropriate metal (for example, Ti, Ta, Mo, W, or any other silicide formed from Groups IVB, VB, VIB or VIIB) over the surface and reacting the metal with the silicon to form the silicide, or a silicide material may be directly deposited.
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, selected areas of the silicide are then doped so that they may be the source of impurities for a subsequent diffusion operation. An ion implantation process may be utilized for this purpose, with the energy and dosage of the implantation being controlled such that the ions are driven as close to the silicide/silicon interface as possible. In one exemplary arrangement, an n-type ion implant, using phosphorus, may be performed at an energy of 30 keV, with a dosage greater than 1�1015 cm-2, yielding a dopant concentration in the silicide region of greater than 2�1019 cm-3. The result of such a process is illustrated in FIG. 3, where the shaded portions of silicide layer 20 have been converted to n-type silicide. As shown, the energy and dose of the implant have been chosen so that the impurities will reach a depth D into the substrate. Since a ion implant process has been utilized, the sidewall regions of silicide layer 20 beyond this depth will contain little, if any, impurities.
An oxide layer 22, as shown in FIG. 4, is then deposited so as to completely cover silicide layer 20. Since any type of high temperature operation would result in unwanted (and uncontrolled) impurity migration, this oxide must be deposited (not grown) using any type of well-known low temperature technique. For example, this oxide could be deposited using a low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) technique. Following the oxide deposition, a polysilicon layer 24 is formed over oxide layer 22, where polysilicon layer 24 will form the support of the final DI device structure. Polysilicon layer 24 is then planarized, using well-known grinding techniques, so as to form an essentially flat top surface 26. As described below, surface 26 is utilized as a reference surface in forming the DI tubs, so it is important that surface 26 be as flat as possible. FIG. 5 illustrates the DI structure subsequent to the formation of the isolated tub structure. In order to form this structure, the arrangement as shown in FIG. 4 is inverted so that surface 26 becomes the bottom support surface. The top surface of silicon substrate 10 is then ground and polished, using surface 26 as a guide, until the portion of monocrystalline silicon 10 in tub region 18 is exposed, as shown in FIG. 5.
In accordance with the present invention, the impurities implanted into silicide 20 must be migrated into the silicon region of tub 18. This process may be accomplished by heating the structure to a temperature sufficient (>700� C., for example) to diffuse the impurities into the tub region. For the particular structure illustrated in FIG. 5, the impurities will migrate into the bottom of tub 18, forming an n-type region 28. It is to be understood that this particular heat treatment, or anneal, may be performed at any point in time after the ion implantation. In fact, the polysilicon deposition process may be performed at a temperature sufficient to also provide the impurity migration. However, by performing the anneal subsequent to the various grinding and polishing steps, any surface damage created by these steps may be eliminated by the high temperature treatment.
The structure as illustrated in FIG. 5 may serve as the generic structure for a variety of different high-speed integrated devices. One such device, a high-speed lateral NPN bipolar transistor is illustrated in FIG. 6. As shown, this particular device includes a p-type region 30 formed in tub 18. For the purposes of constructing this particular device, n-doped silicon 10 was utilized to form tub 18. An n+diffusion region 32, forming the emitter diffusion of the structure is subsequently formed within p-type region 30. A metal electrode 33 is subsequently formed to contact emitter region 32. Similarly, a p+ diffusion region 34 is formed in p-type region 30, where p+ diffusion region 34 forms the base diffusion of the final transistor structure. A metal electrode 35 is subsequently contacted to emitter region 34. The collector region of the transistor structure comprises the n-type diffusion region 28 formed as described above. In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, silicide layer 20 functions as the collector contact area, where a metal electrode 37, located as shown in FIG. 6, is disposed to contact the portion of silicide layer 20 which is exposed at the top surface of the device. Since the silicide exhibits a sheet resistance significantly less than monocrystalline silicon material forming tub 18 (2-4 ohm/square versus 100 ohm/square for a 1000Å thick film), collector series resistance of the structure of the present invention will likewise decrease by at least an order of magnitude. Since this resistance is directly related to the RC time constant of the transistor structure, the utilization of silicide layer 20 as disclosed in the present invention, will significantly increase the speed of this transistor structure.
It is to be understood that a complementary type of high-speed bipolar transistor (that is, a high-speed PNP transistor), may also be formed using the techniques of the present invention. In order to form the PNP structure, the ion implant process associated with silicide layer 20 is merely altered to utilize as an impurity source a p-type donor, boron, for example. It is to be recognized that both the energy and dosage of an ion implant with boron, as compared with phosphorus, may need to be modified to obtain the required dopant concentration. In a similar fashion, the remaining diffusion regions utilized to form the transistor structure are formed with a dopant of the opposite conductivity type.
The particular generic DI structure illustrated in FIG. 5 may be used to form devices other than the high speed bipolar transistor illustrated in FIG. 6. For example, a depletion-mode junction FET may be formed within this structure, as illustrated in FIG. 7. As shown, this structure utilizes a p-type tub region 39, with a p+ source diffusion region 40 and a p+drain diffusion region 42 formed in a spaced-apart manner within tub 39. A source electrode 41 is positioned to contact source diffusion 40 and a drain electrode 43 is used to contact drain diffusion 42. The gate region of this particular structure comprises n-type diffusion region 28, formed as described above in association with FIG. 5. Advantageously, silicide layer 20 is utilized as the gate contact layer, with a gate electrode 44 formed on the top surface to contact silicide layer 20.
FIG. 8 illustrates yet another device which may be formed from the basic DI structure of FIG. 5. The device illustrated in FIG. 8 comprises an nchannel FET, where the gate threshold voltage is controlled/regulated by the utilization of an additional voltage applied to n-type diffusion region 28. In particular, this structure comprises an n+ source diffusion region 46, and an n+ drain diffusion region 48, separated in a p-type tub region 45 so as to form the channel of the transistor. A gate oxide 50 is disposed on the device surface above this channel region. A source electrode 47, a drain electrode 49, and a gate electrode 51 are disposed to contact the various regions described above. Additionally, as previously mentioned, a control electrode 52 is disposed to contact silicide layer 20. If no voltage were applied to control electrode 52, the FET would operate in a conventional fashion, with the gate threshold voltage being controlled by the material forming tub region 45. Alternatively, this gate threshold voltage may be modified by applying a voltage to control electrode 52, which by interacting with diffusion region 28, will modify the electric field present in the channel region. This modification will result in the requirement of a different gate threshold voltage (either higher or lower, as a function of the polarity of the applied control voltage) in order to activate the transistor action.
It is to be noted at this point that the three different devices illustrated in FIGS. 6-8 are merely examples of the type of device which may be formed in the DI structure of FIG. 5. Various other devices may also be formed in this particular inventive generic DI structure illustrated in FIG. 5.
As stated above, silicide layer 20 may be selectively etched in order to form yet another variety of DI integrated circuit structures which derive benefits from the utilization of doped silicide regions, in this particular case, doped silicide sidewalls. An exemplary fabrication process for forming a generic DI structure which contains doped silicide sidewalls is illustrated in FIGS. 9-11. Referring in particular to FIG. 9, the first step in obtaining this structure is to perform a reactive ion etch (RIE) upon the previously-described structure illustrated in FIG. 3. That is, a reactive ion etch is performed subsequent to the ion implant of silicide layer 20 and prior to the formation of the covering oxide layer. As is well-known in the art, a reactive ion etch will remove all horizontal portions of the exposed material, in this case leaving silicide sidewalls 60 and 62 as illustrated in FIG. 9. The remainder of the fabrication process is similar to that described above. In particular, as illustrated in FIG. 9, a heat treatment (anneal) step is performed which causes the n-tye impurities present in sidewalls 60 and 62 to migrate into tub region 18, forming a pair of n-type diffusion regions 64 and 66 within tub 18. Subsequent to this heat treatment, an oxide layer 68 is formed, using a low temperature process, so as to completely cover the top surface of the device; both the exposed single crystal silicon 10 and silicide sidewalls 60,62, as illustrated in FIG. 10. A thick polysilicon layer 70 is subsequently deposited and planarized so as to have an essentially flat top surface 72. As with the fabrication process described above in association with FIGS. 3-5, surface 72 will serve as the reference surface during the subsequent grinding and polishing operations used to expose tub region 18. It is to be understood that as with the above-described process of FIGS. 3-5, the heat treatment which provides the ion migration into tub region 18 may also be performed at the end of the tub formation process, subsequent to the exposure of tub region 18.
The generic DI structure including silicide sidewalls 60,62 is illustrated in FIG. 11. As with the generic DI structure of FIG. 5, a wide variety of integrated circuit devices may be formed from the structure illustrated in FIG. 11. One exemplary structure, a lateral NPN bipolar transistor, is illustrated in FIG. 12. As shown, this structure includes a p+ base diffusion region 80 formed in the top surface of p-type tub region 81. The emitter of this structure comprises the n-type diffusion region 66 formed during the silicide anneal, and the collector region similarly comprises the n-type diffusion region 64 formed during the same process. The connection to emitter diffusion region 66 is provided by silicide sidewall 62 and a corresponding surface electrode 82. The connection to collector diffusion region 64 is provided by silicide sidewall 60 and a surface electrode 80. It is obvious from the structure of this particular device that the transistor action will occur in the bottom area of tub 81, in the vicinity of emitter region 66 and collector region 64. Since this particular DI structure may be made to be as shallow as desired, this particular device can essentially be considered as a lateral surface device, with the speed improvement attributed to the utilization of the silicide emitter and collector connections. Additionally, it is to be remembered that this device, as well as all other discussed devices, also enjoys the isolation benefits of the DI structure and may thus be operated not only at high speeds, but also at substrate voltages well exceeding 300 V.
FIG. 13 illustrates a conventional field effect transistor which may be formed from the generic DI structure with silicide sidewalls as illustrated in FIG. 11. In particular, the FET of FIG. 13 utilizes n-type diffusion region 66 as the source diffusion region, and n-type diffusion region 64 as the drain diffusion region. The channel of the transistor is defined as the region of p-tub 81 located between these regions. A gate oxide 90 is disposed on the top surface of the structure above the channel region. As shown, a source electrode 92, a gate electrode 94 and a drain electrode 96 complete the device structure. Silicide sidewall 62 serves as the connection between source diffusion 66 and electrode 92 and, in a similar fashion, silicide sidewall 60 provides the connection between drain diffusion 64 and electrode 96. As with the bipolar device of FIG. 12, the transistor action of the FET of FIG. 13 will take place in the bottom of tub 81, where this tub may be made as shallow as desired.
A junction FET, formed from the generic DI structure of FIG. 11, is illustrated in FIG. 14. As with the FET of FIG. 13, n-type diffusion region 66 is utilized as the source diffusion and n-type region 64 is used as the drain diffusion. For this particular device to function properly, it is necessary to utilize an n- type tub 101. A p+ gate diffusion region 100 is formed in the top surface of tub 101. A source electrode 102 is connected via silicide sidewall 62 to the source diffusion region 66, with a drain electrode 104 coupled to drain diffusion region 64 by silicide sidewall 60. A gate electrode 106 is disposed to contact gate diffusion region 100. In the absence of a voltage applied to gate electrode 106, conduction will occur along the bottom of tub 101 between source diffusion 66 and drain diffusion 64. With the application of a voltage to gate electrode 106, p+ region 100 will expand in size and eventually pinch-off the conduction path between the diffusions, thus turning the transistor off.
it is to be noted that the particular devices illustrated in FIGS. 12-14 are merely illustrative of the types of devices which may be formed int he generic structure of FIG. 11. Further, the scope of the present invention is considered to encompass into only the exemplary generic structures of FIGS. 5 and 11, but to include any type of dielectrically isolated structure which include doped silicide sections used as the diffusion source for any active portion of the device formed within the DI structure.
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