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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . I have the purchase history to prove it.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The opportunity to transact at the point of purchase increases the sheer number of revenue opportunities.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. I agree – this reminds me of a friend who was involved in three different IT start-ups, none of which ever turned a dime of revenue. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) - crowdSPRING Blog , September 13, 2010 At crowdSPRING we talk a great deal about how we can leverage our limited marketing resources to drive traffic and revenues and build strong community. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. That crazy chicken.

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Viola Private Equity Pumps $7 Million into Zend

VC Cafe

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. But when the web 2.0

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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