VC Cafe
JUNE 26, 2023
But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. The New Exits.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem. Bottom of the sales funnel.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.
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