Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Our business development discussions took longer than planned.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. The owner of that company was in the meeting along with his business development lead. I talked too much.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Your company’s future will be bright when you carefully and consistently snuff out the dysfunction.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2019

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. The bar tab will leave you with a hangover that may cost you your company’s reputation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. But, that was the day the trucking industry took a turn for the best. Women in transportation have never looked back. Step on it Ellen!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? The second half of this analysis coming soon!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I felt the same way.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Not only will firsthand knowledge of Chinese business strengthen your position as a partner, but it will trigger your creativity so you can develop fresh, unique approaches for different segments of the Chinese market. Strategy shift.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Times Square Strategy discussion I had with Eric Ries , was still top of mind, so instead of my standard Customer Development lecture , I offered my thoughts on: the origin of Customer Development, where we are today, and where does Customer Development go, and how you can help get it there.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Disclaimer: I don’t know if I am (or ever was) a hardcore back-end developer. I did make money for a long time doing web-scale development work for a bunch of companies. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). You develop a cynicism that the future will be better. This is part of my Startup Advice series. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future. In my observation this seldom worked.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the arrival of software platforms that allow anyone with basic computer literacy to develop software or apps without any coding expertise. Put simply, if you can read, you’re about to become a software developer too. An important evolution for the masses where software is eating everything.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Are you an executive and a firefighter in your company? Apply courage, judgment and intellectual stimulation!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. #9- A merger of two companies. Photo Credit: Roy Morejon. inspiration.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Provide the background on the company, including date of formation, office location, legal structure, and stage of development. Uses of funds could include expenses involved with marketing, staffing, technology development, office space, among other uses. Give some history. Show off your track record. Provide a clear exit strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. Always developing. I spent 8 weeks there per year as well as time in Chicago. I did all of this while I had an income.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2023

Earlier last year, one of my partners told me that I’d developed a reputation with other VCs (presumably our partner funds ) that I hate crypto. It’s like the Internet was in 1999 – ahead of its time. A few others said some versions of all governments are Ponzi schemes. And I got a few that implied I hated crypto.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 54

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Enter the Developers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. He currently has a 1999 strategy. There is one problem with the strategy, though.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. It’s a powerful model that university education has generally missed on. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. The goal is to develop a deep knowledge of what makes them tick and what to expect when interacting with them. Go beyond user or buyer personas.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

In 1999, a company known as Texas Instruments produced a DLP Cinema projector. A huge number of films which were made before 1999 were analog in nature. Innovators such as the Lumiere Brothers developed technologies such as the 35 mm and the 75 mm films. It was the original analog to digital film converter. Conclusion.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

Artificial Inteligence 48

Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 48

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. Innovation which has shaped the past twenty years has been the domain of private industry. Technology firms now make up seven of the ten biggest companies in the world. Their financial dominance is a clear function of the consumer utility they have provided, no doubt.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 1, 2021

Even as a 20-something first-time CEO years ago, I was deeply skeptical of the value of a Coach, but that was in 1999 or 2000 when coaches weren’t so commonplace. The person probably has some kind of academic grounding, like a Master’s degree in Organizational Development or Industrial Psychology, or a Certificate in Coaching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Developing a culture of continued education and continuous improvement is critical if you want to retain your staff and provide them with advancement opportunities. Encourage everyone to read books for personal development. One of my biggest regrets and mistakes in life is that I didn’t start reading books until age 40.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). The reason I have generally been against convertible debt is that historically it was a mechanism that avoided price.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. . “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). Electronic traction / stability control –> Toyota, Mercedes, and BMW all developed first systems in late ’80s.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. ATI has also helped develop organizations in the industry such as Austin Technology Council (ATC), Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Tech Ranch Austin and many others.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Turn Your Organization Inside Out.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it.

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