Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. Could we have built the first college-based social network five years before Facebook ? I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, When I launched my second company I was new to Silicon Valley. We were launching a cloud-based document management into a space that was increasingly being called Enterprise 2.0. .&# Look at Google.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In doing research for a post on “The Enterprise Cool Kids” at the tail end of last year, I interviewed Silicon Valley veteran Marc Andreessen about where he thought the enterprise was headed. Nothing is going to stop cloud. So the shift towards cloud services. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Don’t spend like it’s 1999. We have the inability to hire engineering in Silicon Valley or brand sales people in NYC but the country still has very high structural long-term unemployment. And Social. I’m long the cloud. Don’t want to call it either way. It’s too early. My prognosis?

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