Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Along with their demise came a dismissive attitude about most entrepreneurial web-related endeavors.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The New Exits.

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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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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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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. In addition, we have a VPN for remote access to this share drive.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! — Kate L. . Won The Search Wars.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! If Tech needed any additional reasons for humility… Mar 1998, Fortune: “How Yahoo! — Kate L. . Won The Search Wars.”.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Anything you post on the world wide web can live on for infamy. Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. BoardEffect offers a board management software platform that assists nonprofit boards in meeting their obligations for compliance, budgeting, and recruiting talented leaders.

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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. These early adopters have access to high-end handsets, access to the Internet, the Web and applications, music on their handsets, personal information and access to friends.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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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. We will connect with Mr. Noel via web conference on Thursday, October 7th, at 1 pm EDT / 10 am PDT. market share and 1,000 global employees.

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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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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Lots of Startups So my first prediction about the future of web startups is pretty straightforward: there will be a lot of them. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Well have to.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. Over a million of these came to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. What can I do?”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants.

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. He figured out a way to upgrade the software on your home computer over the internet. If you build a web application, it’s almost certain that you are violating many patents. The episode tracks one patent bought by his company, Intellectual Ventures.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 3, 2004

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d My fund seed invested in his idea which was to allow anyone to build database-enabled, web-based applications through a simple GUI. This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending.

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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 Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! “The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. 30 Beautiful Nature Inspired Web Designs – [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. Web analytics tell you what visitors are doing, but usability testing tells you why. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. – What’s Moneyball?

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

which provides consulting and training services in Accounting and productivity based software. and now schoolofbookkeeping.com is one of the leaders in the small business accounting world in online training resources offering courses on a wide range of software products. You need to produce content for the web. Show Quotes .

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. 16) Bring Change.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). web chat, or a real-time messaging tool that can be accessed via your website and/or in-app). Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. Add an opt-in box.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., Sans serif are better on the web. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al.,

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In Effects of Web Atmospheric Cues on Users’ Emotional Responses in E-Commerce , researchers Hong Sheng and Tanvi Joginapelly found that websites with a stronger emotional impact produced a greater intent to buy. . 1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . Emotional Design Influences Sales.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a web-based time tracking system. Thank you Jared.

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