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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Maybe that was the right thing to do to get the business, but the key point is that we didn’t test how much they would have been willing to pay. we began by building chat servers.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. The business model. Keep core development in-house.