Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Double-down on great people, process & IP. In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. Ameet was right.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Low in stock alerts.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

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). I learned how to retain employees when stock options were no longer a real currency. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. It was December 1999. Let me start with a story. They accepted my argument.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. The combination is amazing.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I had a really fun 20-minute interview with Howard Lindzon of Stock Twits as part of a 5-part series on whether the web is dead. The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. +

Web 300

Web HTML AJAX China 300