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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. If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Co-founder Seelig told me that they realized that they had gotten to that rare point where “the opportunity presented itself to go big” at the same time as the capital markets provided capital at a good valuation to support going big.