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

Cloud 343

Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Even less does it mean high transaction volume or revenue.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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. One of our main competitors of that era was Kana, which at that time, did way better than LivePerson in terms of customers, revenue, and market capitalization.

Demand 60

Demand Bandwidth Hosting IPO 60