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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' However, those templates were usually ugly and limited.

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With Great Startups It’s All About The Execution

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 Maximize technology architecture and standards.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy.

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

If you'd like to try your hand at being an entrepreneur inside one of the world's largest bureaucracies, you can apply right here starting today. Entrepreneurs used these data to create weather newscasts, websites, mobile applications, insurance, and much more. MyUSA is working to solve these problems.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum – more behind the story

BeyondVC

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.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

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.

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