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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot). Since then and over the last 10 years, everything has gotten better. Much better.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Customer Center. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively.