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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. They haven’t hit their revenue targets.

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APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve. This was, instead, monthly recurring revenue and a real product. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 software.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. If I wanted to outsource back office operations to the Philippines, the cost would range from 7 to twelve dollars per hour, and this includes salaries, benefits, power, internet, rent, and contingencies. From a company worth $1.6 See Also: What Defines Your Company Culture?

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries.

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