BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. 9 months later we had rebuilt the architecture, relaunched, and landed a couple more great customers.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Architecture Open Source Database 109

BeyondVC

JULY 7, 2010

This was the year 2000 and the idea was that Metapa would allow any company to send any media asset over any content delivery network and our service would automatically transform the asset for viewing anywhere. 9 months later we had rebuilt the architecture, relaunched, and landed a couple more great customers.

Portfolio 109

Portfolio Open Source Architecture Database 109

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year. The architecture has to deal with the constant pivots and directional changes to adapt to the market needs.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2010

It helped that my elementary school teacher recommended I join a school with special emphasis on artistic development. After almost picking industrial design, I instead ventured into land planning and landscape architecture with a later specialization in golf course design. Argh, I just dated myself again. Strike that.

Jacksonville 71

Jacksonville West Virginia Design Brunei 71

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

They could have taken the tens of millions of dollars that the product cost to develop, and made their existing operation just 0.01% more effective, and made the same amount of money. Because after developing that expertise, they find it’s only possible and enjoyable to apply their skills within a larger environment.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. Greg gregoutside (at) gmail.com.

San Jose 31

San Jose Technical Review Venture Capital Angel Investor 31

Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. The company weighs in at more than half (55%) of the entire group and grew its market cap by $600B+ - more than the nine other companies combined!

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today.

Social Media 205

Social Media Architecture .Net Operations 205

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Government IT solutions can be iterative, they don't have to be designed down to the last detail by architecture astronauts before implementation.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

To develop the list, we surveyed more than 1,500 European and Israeli private SaaS companies across 20 countries and a number of categories. In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. It is as if 99% of the world could read but only 1% could write.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. What advice would you give entrepreneurs on how to think about the architecture and structure of their products? We shifted from being a monolith, in terms of code, to a service-oriented architecture.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. The MBW base stations’multi radio mesh architecture enables cellular operators to build large-scale networks and deliver high data volumes. Data mining-based Customer analytics.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103