ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. The SharePoint cloud eco-system is not sufficiently mature, and for Daniel to be able to realize his vision, he needs to get enough application developers active soon. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. For example, Microsoft is the first major US provider to launch a public cloud in China through a three-way strategic partnership with 21Vianet, China’s largest carrier-neutral internet data services provider, and the Shanghai Municipal Government.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. Fast forward to 2013.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

After working together for about 5 years in a high technology company, Greg Levow (Cornell, Dyson ’04) and Steve Sibulkin were interested in identifying a new market where they could leverage their expertise in cloud technology to “do good for the world” and make money in the process.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. Tanja Woods – Owner of Thinking Cloud. Tanja Woods and her husband Alex, own Thinking Cloud. Row Murray – Founder, and Digital and UX Director of Kenobi and Board Member on Vic ICT4.Women. Article written by Tanja Woods.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Three months after getting up and running, the tech bubble burst and all the money dried up.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Entrepreneurship business Cloud Computing DevOps management Wall Street' That moment is now. Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Et voilà: the first CRM. The industry had to wait for about 4 years to have a new genius disrupting the industry of CRM.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. For the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. For the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 But I do believe that manic bull markets tend to cause people to make decisions which are clouded by lure of easy wealth, or herd momentum. But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Fred is not predicting anything in particular but makes several useful observations, including the following: “And yet storm clouds are on the horizon for the capital markets in 2019. If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. Cloud computing is another great example here of how companies are doing more with less. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston has been bullish on his company since he made his initial investment to found the hosting company in 1999. And now, he’s investing even more in the San Antonio-based managed cloud company. This week, Weston announced he has purchased $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. And it’s still less than I was paid at Accenture in 1999. I quit a very well paid job at Accenture with very little time remaining before making partner and took a risk of having no job security at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via Pley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why Crowdsourcing is the Next Cloud Computing | Wired - crowdspring.co/GZtngc. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. What is the most important thing you have learned about leadership? Quora - crowdspring.co/1hUngFS. Why It Pays to Be a Jerk Like Jeff Bezos | by Gene Marks - crowdspring.co/19ILy4I. LinkedIn - crowdspring.co/H47RXx.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 11, 2021

1999 wasn’t the dark ages, but it feels like a different millennium in terms of what it’s like to start a technology company from scratch. The cloud and micro services/APIs mean that we are able to build our platform much more quickly at much lower cost than in the past. It’s much easier to build a startup today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via SparkBoxToys.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

It would peak at around 200k queries per day sometime in 1999, before Napster came into the picture and killed ftp servers that shared mp3 files. Game-changing technologies become affordable (cloud computing, SSDs, insane amounts of memory). Instrument code. Optimize carefully and only when necessary. Ask others who know more.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The gathering clouds were ominous. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. A cultural misunderstanding can torpedo your team, destroy any unity and corrupt all communications. As a leader, your actions matter! He was stunned.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2018

Her vision for how cloud based technology could enhance our communication efforts produced a high-quality tool that I never would have envisioned. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Don’t settle for an illusion!

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

Only the sequencing of the genome and its potential for personalized medicine is comparable, and even that has been enabled in very small part by cloud computing and collaboration made possible by the internet. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

Only the sequencing of the genome and its potential for personalized medicine is comparable, and even that has been enabled in very small part by cloud computing and collaboration made possible by the internet. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. While that door hasn’t closed, it has stalled, at least for the 125 issues waiting for the storm clouds to dissipate. .” (iii) “Roughly 600,000 new businesses (that employ others) are started each year in the U.S.” . (iv) Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

We are now well-beyond 13 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading, on an inflation adjusted basis, much lower than they were in July 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to July 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,031, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,685.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. I personally felt that we would have been better served putting more resource into building out cloud services, for example, to make Salesforce more scalable in terms of our user base. We started out with such big dreams about changing the world.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. With Rockmelt, the browser information lives in the cloud rather than on a device. Even if the Internet had eventually won, it would have taken much longer and the world would have lost years of important innovation.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

That was in 1999 – we were in fact one of the first food companies to offer e-commerce to consumers. We’ve been experimenting with some cloud-based CRM, Project Management, and Intranet tools, but haven’t really found the right mix of features for us yet.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). . #8 – Almost By Mistake. Photo Credit: Marcus Miller. It may sound a little cliched but I started my business almost by mistake. I was a developer.

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