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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Computer Security. Managing Creativity. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Dont overlook federal and state securities laws.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. 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. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

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. What’s Next in 2012…. The Indians have a term for this: jugaad.

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

This from a man who knows from having made bigger investments that are smaller : Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of Menlo Park-based Bullpen Capital. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. Your data is trapped on a client device (a PC), leading to security risks and replication problems. -

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.