Remove 1999 Remove Open Source Remove Revenue Remove Software Review
article thumbnail

It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%.

article thumbnail

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. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries.

Cloud 343
article thumbnail

The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

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. 27 Apr 10.