Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

By 1997, the pop-up plague had spread to sites across the net, including Geocities, AOL, and The New York Times. Adware (software built primarily to advertise to users) like Gator began to appear. The pop-up ad was designed to dissociate the advertisement from the content on the page and protect the advertiser’s brand. .

Customer 96

Customer Lead Generation Flash Conversion 96

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. We did the software selling and support business at paloalto.com and gave people free content at bplans.com. Businessplan.com had already been registered, but bplans.com was, so I registered it.

CTO Hire 66

CTO Hire New York Software Web 66

YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

DuncanWierman : Duncan Wierman, software CEO, shares his insight into creative online marketing. eugenelee : Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee tweets about getting business value out of social software. These CEOs are in the business of helping other CEOs, filling employment needs, sales software, and Twitter streams.

Cofounder 239

Cofounder Technical Review Social Media PR 239

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. I’ve been married for 22 years now and when I had my first company I just assumed I would run that company for the rest of my life and keep doing software development.

Swaziland 137

Swaziland Entrepreneur IPO Netherlands 137

David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good. There are 1.4m-1.6m

America 144

America DC Startup Aggregator 144

Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Those of us who work in software live in a world of lean practices. We have seen software-based companies go from an idea in a kid’s brain to a billion dollar business in the time it would have taken him to get a college degree. Their software development process improved tremendously over the next decade. ” .

Developer 60

Developer Software Engineering Software Software Developers 60

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. While I understand.

SQL 282

SQL Naming Internet Software 282

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. We had just started an enterprise software company, Epiphany , and we were one of those disruptors. Christensen changed the trajectory of my career and was the guide star for my work on innovation. I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

Lean 428

Lean Business Model Government Agile 428

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She holds a Software Sourcing Buyer position at IBM where she is also involved with the Hispanic Affinity group.

Colombia 49

Colombia Texas Startup Arlington 49

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

deal architect

JUNE 8, 2012

I first met Larry Ellison, briefly, in 1997. I have watched him infuriate competitors, drive analysts to drink, generate more quips than all boring tech execs put together. Over those 15 years I have also learned to look beyond his.

Cloud 218

Cloud Software 218

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. In other words, there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.

Boston 55

Boston Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 55

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

The iPhone also launched with iOS – the software platform that makes all of the magic behind that touchscreen possible. For the first time, installing new software became easily accessible to all iPhone users. Lipitor (1997). In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg. Not the iPhone itself.

Small Business 65

Small Business Product Software Review Hungary 65

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ).

Pennsylvania 93

Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 93

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ).

Pennsylvania 90

Pennsylvania Search Acquisition Software Engineering 90

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Software development wasn’t giving me the satisfaction I craved from working, and I had recently been part of a startup that was now a smoking crater after the Dot Com crash. Rogue Wave Software loved their product too. Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. Photo by mpclemens. The Curse of Love.

Java 66

Java Product Software Developers Software Development 66

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I remember in the late 90′s trying to charge fair prices for software when my well-financed competitors were giving things away for free.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

www.readwriteweb.com

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I started using my first content management system around 1997, when things were crude and clumsy. These were gigantic software installations, requiring six figure PO's and a phalanx of consultants to care for and feed these beasts. I am still fearful that upgrading my main Wordpress software that will break something.

Development Team Review 50

Development Team Review Software Review HTML Social Media 50

Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4-

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Atlanta 116

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. CNET’s Download.com knows what software people are using. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. Amazon knows what people have bought.

Media 180

Media Artificial Inteligence Los Angeles Algorithm 180

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

I was reminded of the importance of starting with the customer experience while I was watching this brilliant video from WWDC 1997 of Steve Jobs. enterprise software companies). In the video, Jobs appears to be responding to attack by a troll , but is actually doing something much more interesting.

Customer 163

Customer Software Cloud Video 163

Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

When I first got there in 1997, I was taken aback by what I perceived as a display of wealth on campus. Going to CMU for my Masters in Software Engineering was one of the single best decisions I’ve ever made. With Carnegie Mellon, it’s a different story. Furthermore, their assets increased by 278M in 2011.

Argentina 55

Argentina Silicon Valley Software Engineering .Net 55

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

Or desperate measures like Wired’s campaign where they requested that readers turn off their ad-blocking software: Image Source. He admits that the highest click through rates occur as a result of misleading design that imitates system or software components: Image Source. With these in mind came the advent of native advertising.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Vertical Advertising 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C.

Developer 31

Developer Algorithm Search Web 31

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Human Resources (HR).

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. The cliche goes, “you get what you pay for,” and in the field of computer software, Jobs believed this was absolutely true when it came to who he hired and kept on at his companies. That trauma? Pay your employees.

China 250

China Cofounder Audience Reputation 250

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

1980-1997), you are now part of the largest generation in the workforce? Busted: Millennials are Digital Natives – this comfort with automated tools gives them a natural ability to adopt new technology -systems software and tech skills – quickly. by Rose Ernst, national director of the G10 Associates program at Genesis10.

Programming 100

Programming Software Hiring Technology 100

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

Hyperion : While Feld Technologies was a software consulting company, the companies that installed the networks that our software ran on (mostly PC-based Novell Networks) were so shitty that we set up our own small network installation group. If we approach it the right way it will make us stronger.

Software 167

Software Boston Venture Capital Networking 167

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level. It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. And here's something remarkable. The writing got better over time.

Seattle 63

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

It’s out of date now, but if you look for it, you can find the 1997 Dun & Bradstreet research on causes of business failure that listed “too much money&# as one of the causes. And my own company, Palo Alto Software, might not have survived the dot-com crash in 2001 if we’d had more money to spend in 1999.

Oregon 121

Oregon Angel Groups Cofounder Business Plan 121

Agile VC

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Joining Microsoft in 1987 or Yahoo in 1997 or Google in 2005 or Facebook today still gives someone new to the professional world a lot of the exposure to the “startup” world. It’s also far and away the most fertile ground for meeting future co-founders. The next best thing would be to join a recently public (e.g.

Founder 217

Founder Cofounder Later Stage Operations 217

Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. It’s not like other software businesses, because every ride has a real and unavoidable marginal cost. The low barriers to entry aren’t just because of the simplicity of the software model, but counter to popular belief, there isn’t a dramatic network effect.

IPO 48

IPO Valuation Stock Cost 48

Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

With my software background before real estate, I found the root cause of these problems started keeping me up at night. It’s amazing how much money we can save companies by leveraging our software and the IRS relocation tax guidelines simultaneously. In 1997 we were IT consultants. Thanks to Jeff Ellman, UrbanBound. #14

Italy 48

Italy Entrepreneur San Francisco PR 48

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. And you didn't have a name anymore. And that's the ballgame. And you know, I think that's obviously true.

Leadership 83

Leadership Connecticut Cofounder Green 83

Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

It was not until she married again in 1997, with the encouragement of her husband, she started her first business: With big plans in mind but only a small budget, she began Bermuda Bride in late 1999 and her floral company ‘Petals’ in 2001. May 22-25, 3016. For more information on this conference and to register, click here !

Bahamas 60

Bahamas Europe Partner Entrepreneur 60