Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. We raised $16.5

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Progressive.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 8, 2004

I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. I wrote a post months ago showing how far Kana had fallen, and how LivePerson stuck with its hosted software model and finally hit profitability.

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