YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What can technology take off your plate? Don’t expect pinpoint software to solve your problems. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. To eliminate the costs of tedium, automate and minimize the tasks you yearn to avoid.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Myth #2: All startups are technology companies. Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. All of those companies trade at high multiples.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. It takes less to start a business these days – We all know that it takes less to start a technology company these days.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. Payers took months to reimburse their practice for patients' medical claims.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. 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). It never ends, because technology changes fast. So what was 2look4? A few things.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. In a startup cash is king.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. New technology – games today are by default much more technological & data driven and thus more open to innovation. SensorTower’s top grossing mobile games.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

However, Jobs became less of a jerk after three children by his second wife came into his life between the years of 1991 and 1998. But the now ubiquitous Apple products came out of that period of technological and marketing missteps. Technology should be invisible. Don’t let money ruin your life. How do you turn this on?

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

As velocity of innovation increases, it makes sense for larger companies to acquire vs build their own technologies (especially if the company is sitting on billions of cash). Steve Jobs famously said in a 1998 BusinessWeek interview: “It’s really hard to design products by focus group.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. The New Exits.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. In Richard Hendrick’s own words: “Pied Piper is a multi-platform technology based on a proprietary universal compression algorithm that has consistently fielded high Weisman Scores™ that are not merely competitive, but approach the theoretical limit of lossless compression.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. But it was the software that made the TiVo great. Video Recording.

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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 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.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. software. (10). Software 2.0: Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Writing software for mobile is not the same as for fixed desktops or PCs. On one side, mobility is finally getting the attention of software designers and developers in general. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation. The risks of using social media platforms to promote nonprofit information are prevalent because of technological advances.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. Over the next 21 years, John and his team grew the business from pure startup to a 60% U.S. market share and 1,000 global employees. Two great entrepreneurial success stories.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 11, 2011

Barely a week into the New Year, the American Dialect Society brushed away any doubt that 2010 was a watershed year for mobile technology by voting “app&# the Word of the Year, as reported by NPR and other media outlets. app subscription, requiring a monthly fee. transaction fees for facilitating the exchange of goods or services.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

Adam Bosworth has an interesting post on the evolution of software and why software delivered as a service will be the business model of the future. Software delivered as a service enables that and packaged software does not. ” I have never thought about software in evolutionary terms, but it certainly makes sense.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). The product worked.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. For me and my Jewish CEO boss, though, as officers of a public software company, September 30 was a tough day to be out of the office, sitting in synagogue atoning for a year full of sins. We priced our enterprise software in the form of a perpetual license. million to $22.5

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. It assumes that car companies will do a good job self-certifying these new technologies.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

technology. by Dr. Step #10 – Sorting applications by job — once applications are received, the goal is to ensure that the highest quality applications are sorted relevant to the most appropriate jobs (manually or via software). Implementing and/or improving systems and technology. Browse Articles by Tag.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Thats nonsense.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? 8 – The Unsung Hero of Health.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 3, 2004

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase. So Andrew did what most entrepreneurs do, created his own software and service. Initially, the client sw was web-based, with simple html as the implementation technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology.

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