The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

For long-term growth, Infosys was going to slowly pull away from the large outsourcing contracts that had been its bread and butter in the growth phase and launch into new products and solutions riding on the emerging tech trends of cloud computing, big data, analytics, mobility, etc. Cloud, big data, analytics… this was the future.”.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s a massive shift in the way we think about commerce, one that is made possible thanks to platform businesses — the online marketplaces, small business cloud-based companies and crowdfunding sites out there. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

workers in 2017, up from just over 3% in 2000. Invest in a filing cabinet with hanging folders, a secure cloud storage subscription with plenty of room to grow, and ample external storage media for files you don’t want to store in the cloud. Don’t stop with your cloud storage subscription.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. Don’t let a “nearsighted” view cloud the “big-picture” view; success in the best interests of all. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

I think it’s unlikely we will crash as hard as did in 2000 or 2008. The more likely, and to my mind healthier, scenario is that we see a few months of continued weakness in the venture markets and then things level off.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Et voilà: the first CRM. The industry had to wait for about 4 years to have a new genius disrupting the industry of CRM.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. This can be depicted as such: Mainframe-Terminals –> LAN/Internet Client/Server –> Mobile Broadband, Big Data/Analytics, Social Business, Cloud Analytics, Mobile Devices & Apps (3rd Platform).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. The biggest change in the software industry beyond open-source was “open cloud.&#. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. billion and became the core of the current Salesforce Marketing Cloud. ExactTarget went public in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013 for $2.5

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In the public sector, we helped the US Virgin Islands implement a cloud-based Disaster Food Stamps system to bring aid in a matter of weeks right after two devastating hurricanes hit the islands. The biggest disruptor is the cloud. It gives rise to rapid, flexible, and modular implementations.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2014

.” Over the weekend, there was some commentary on AWS in fight of its life as customers like Dropbox ponder hybrid clouds and Google pricing. “Could Amazon Web Services be feeling the heat from new public cloud competitors? Computer Industry amazon aws cloud competition google microsoft partners'

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. Don’t let a “nearsighted” view cloud the “big-picture” view; success in the best interests of all. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

The Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) earlier this month celebrated over 40 innovative technology solutions – across various categories including the best start-up, cloud solution, digital media, e-government, and infocomm productivity – at an awards ceremony that attracted over 290 submissions in total.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. ” “It reminds me of what China was in the early 2000′s,” adds Paine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. Don’t let a “nearsighted” view cloud the “big-picture” view; success in the best interests of all. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

Leadership 158

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Yesterday I wrote that there are clouds on the horizon in the world of startup finance, but it was unclear whether valuations will continue to drop, level off, or even go back up. Today the new data from PWC shows that investment dropped sharply in Q4 but is still at historically high levels.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2000, some economists believed that the world had entered a “ new economy ” based on the incredible communications and computing advances made throughout the 1990s. Cloud Computing Platforms. The cloud is perhaps the most significant innovation in computing that occurred over the last ten years.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Agora Cloud Services. The Agora team ended last week wondering whether they were 1) a true marketplace for cloud computing, where they provide both matching and exchange capabilities for real-time trading. Their first effort didn’t get much traffic: 6 clicks out of ~2000 impressions. cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure. More and more company and personal services are being virtualized to the Cloud. Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M. Don’t let a “nearsighted” view cloud the “big-picture” view; success in the best interests of all. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

In 2000, three years after Netflix launched DVD rental services, Netflix used customer data and ratings from their movie recommendation system to predict content choices for all Netflix members. One of the benefits of measuring and acquiring data in a cloud-based system is the time save. Netflix focuses on customer experience metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity. Over 2000 proposals have been reviewed and over 40 investments made across the world in a wide range of sectors, with many more under negotiation.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 27, 2019

An alternative you might consider would be an online cloud-based accounting solution. On average, you will need to pay roughly between $200 and $2000 per month for this service. So, you will need to consider whether you are taking them on board as a full-time member of your payroll. But how much will they cost?

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Tech News and Analysis. gigabarb : Microsoft’s Ballmer to Apple: It’s on (again) [link]. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API. By Kevin Fitchard. 2 Comments.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. You can scale much better.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world. You can scale much better.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end and cloud computing (in all its forms) at the other. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. ” “The forecast reinforces our view that Asia will see a monumental increase in mobile users adopting cloud applications both at work and play, driving further pressure on the network in the coming years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

SaaS, the cloud and data analytics have ensured that the intuitive, user-friendly and savvy solutions that VSBs need are finally available. Scott Petty co-founded Signal Peak Ventures (FKA vSpring Capital) in 2000 and has been a Managing Director since its formation. VSB might stand for very small business, but the potential is huge.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2016

I first noticed it in late 2000 when the fund I was working for was invested in one of six high profile and highly funded enterprise portal businesses. Other examples include mobile games, DVD rentals, and cloud storage. It’s likely to happen in bots and AR/VR next.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

The biggest new trends, according to a 2015 Gartner study , are cloud, mobility and the use of data and AI in decision-making. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. It starts with sales enablement. What Is Sales Enablement and Why Should You Care?

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

For example, the Hot or Not rating website founded in the fall of 2000 was merely a “what if” thought for James Hong and Jim Young on a Friday night. Millennials have embraced smartphones and tablets as the new desktop for ultimate mobility and leverage the cloud to help them to get work done from anywhere.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

While that door hasn’t closed, it has stalled, at least for the 125 issues waiting for the storm clouds to dissipate. The biggest industry waiting is computers and electronics with 23 deals seeking to raise as much as $4.8 billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. Of the 85 IPOs priced so far this year, only 28 are up.

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