Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Unless your company is large enough to have dedicated, full-time employees managing your employer-provided health insurance program, the money and time you and your managers spend getting your employees covered is one of the greatest threats to your business. Partner with a defined contribution software provider.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. It has become China’s Silicon Valley. Seed Funding (Innofund).

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

Small Business 142

Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

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. Now that you’ve managed to escape Peter’s situation, make sure you don’t replace it with an entirely new set of hassles that you can’t do anything about. Risk is about outcomes.

Business Plan 92

Business Plan Angel Investor Partner Naming 92

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. Many are immersive and include internships. A few are longer than 12 weeks. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

Stock Options 70

Stock Options Cofounder Revenue Hosting 70

The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Such extreme differences between the two markets have made it difficult for US mobile startups to successfully enter China, even if they manage to partner with top local players. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.

China 128

China Marketing Asia Mobile 128

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management.

Advisory Board 70

Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. With an emphasis on managed services, managed security, and hosted voice over IP (VoIP), Frank has helped grow TRTG into one of the premier cloud service providers in the area. Corporate Partners.

Fractional CTO 60

Fractional CTO New Jersey New York City United States 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Years later, he bounced back from that situation has built multiple successful companies including AppSumo – a great place to get deals on software. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. Thanks to Bruce Harpham. #3-

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 107

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Everything she does is with authenticity, from how she communicates to her market, to how she manages her staff. Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. Look at software to automate the business, software to manage inventory etc. Her tip is to “Keep it Real”.

Global 87

Global Channel Sales Software Review 87

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).

San Diego 267

San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. But they went one step further.

Customer 280

Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link].

Kenya 45

Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Consumer approach to software for business users.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

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. That moment is now. Long live DevOps!

Phoenix 175

Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

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. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t true.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. One example is outsourcing our original software development and it eventually had to be redone.

Small Business 105

Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Tony Hsieh, CEO of online clothing retailer Zappos, has made company culture a focal point in his management style. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Thus, efficient management of funding sources is highly important because small businesses have to fund both day-to-day operations and expansion projects.

Small Business 60

Small Business Non-Compete Europe Philippines 60

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

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.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers). Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. million CPUs.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Tips For Managing Remote Workers | Business Insider - crowdspring.co/19fk1pf. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. For Busy People, Managing Time and Bandwidth - crowdspring.co/15SrwFM. crowdspring.co/19IC5KK.

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years. Fiscal Policy vs.

China 74

China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Business Software. Managing Creativity. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Leadership.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

OnlyOnce

MARCH 11, 2021

The bottom line is that we don’t know everything about the business we’re building, but we know what we’re doing in terms of building a business, a startup, a software company, a service-oriented business, leading a team, planning, executing, and on and on. It’s much easier to build a startup today. And probably some other things, too.

API 48

API Cloud Metrics Mobile 48

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. But, over time, I noticed that the productivity losses that result from working too many extra hours start taking a bigger toll faster than most software managers realize. What Management Wants.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Zilliant, founded in 1999, makes price optimization and price management software. Hale will lead, design and execute Zilliant’s new channel program. Its channel partners will sell Zilliant data science solutions.

Channel 48

Channel Programming Partner Hiring 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. With my offer letter in-hand I reported to ESL’s Human Resources (HR) department.

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Agile Silicon Valley RSS California 245

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot.

Product Name 44

Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. It wouldnt boot.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2016

Since its inception in 1991, Aquascape has experienced incredible growth, appearing on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America 4 years in a row (1999-2002). Greg himself appeared on the cover of Inc Magazine, along with a feature article about his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit. Show Links.

North America 60

North America America Leadership Programming 60

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60