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.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

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. I wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Our first interviewee – this coming Monday night – is Andre Durand, the founder and CEO of Ping Identity. Andre Durand brings 18 years of software industry executive leadership experience to his role as founder and CEO at Ping Identity. Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. The New Exits.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. After all, I doubt that the Pointy Haired Boss in the Dilbert comic strip was created with no source of inspiration at all. If you are the founder or "chief geek" in your small ISV, take a careful, honest, and objective look at yourself.

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