Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Firstly, the cost of running an internet application has fallen 100-fold. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. These are very different.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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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? AWS sales are off slightly. Let’s pick apart the four points above a little bit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. But the big project for the week was testing and analyzing Customer Acquisition Costs. The most optimistic estimates showed that the residential wind turbine market was less than $20m in year 5 and the costs to acquire the customers made this a money-losing business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. 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. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

These can trip up even the best, often at the cost of more than a good night’s sleep. 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. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

These can and will trip up even the best, often at the cost of a good night’s sleep. 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. Case and Gerald M. Contemplate your legacy to others.

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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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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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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%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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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. Say, which industries generate the maximum LTV to cost of sales, what is the typical time to close a deal in a specific market or what messaging performs the best with a certain user profile, can be well understood.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Registered developers will get 5000 points a month and any speech transaction of a minute or less will cost one point. 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. Follow us on Twitter. -->. Speech recognition anyone?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

Low initial start-up costs and easy setup make SaaS based solutions an attractive proposition, both for VSB owners and as venture investments. SaaS, the cloud and data analytics have ensured that the intuitive, user-friendly and savvy solutions that VSBs need are finally available.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point.

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Cloud Computing. billion in Federal funds for the implementation of IT in healthcare, which has shown to help lower our outrageous healthcare costs, reduce costly medical errors and improve patient outcomes. Providers and other entities are reluctant to adopt automation and technology, primarily because of costs and other barriers.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

In its annual report issued this week, the RBI also noted it is exploring the issuance of digital currency to save costs related printing paper money. Dfinity, an ambitious new protocol for blockchain based cloud computing, raised over $100M in pre-sale funding from Silicon Valley investors including a16z Crypto.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Their company, my company and countless others espoused cloud-based applications. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. What will a 1-second delay cost you? 2 Host your static files in the cloud that uses a CDN. LiquidWeb – Shared hosting, dedicated hosting, cloud hosting, CDN. Storm on Demand – The best priced cloud hosting service out there. Find the answer on the image below: Image credit.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

If we under-estimate, our support folks get overwhelmed with too much work, their quality of life suffers, and service to each customer suffers; if we over-estimate, we have too many people which is a cost penalty. Things like YouTube, Cloud, and self-driving cars. Managing 10,000 virtual servers in the Cloud Era sounds easy.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Automated testing dramatically reduces the cost of certifying changes, because it removes all of the grunt work QA traditionally does in software. To see why, take a look at Joels Top Five (Wrong) Reasons You Dont Have Testers. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. In 1993, Word 6.0

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. We can all name companies with spectacular success or failure, employing any of these techniques.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. I started saving and investing young, and have been fortunate with a strategic, low cost approach. #20- To let clients know the origin of company and easily understand what I was offering.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

When we started to take stock of this progress four years ago with the first Accel Euroscape , the list of the top 100 cloud companies from Europe and Israel, we had great hopes and Europe delivered beyond our expectations. The aggregate value of the 67 public cloud companies have surpassed $1T in February 2020 to reach $1.4T

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

While we are known for strengths in cybersecurity, cloud computing, military research, and advanced manufacturing, we work hard every day to keep San Antonio a vibrant and supportive city for all types of technology ventures large and small.” In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 5, 2020

A great addition to any small or midsize business office, the Epson EcoTank Pro ET-5880 offers exceptionally low running costs with its refillable high-capacity ink tanks. With the ET-5880, the per-print cost turns out to be as low as 2 cents per page for both color and monochrome pages. The per-print cost turns out to be around 2.2

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. 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.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

It’s worth noting the environmental cost of the diamond trade; for every carat of mined diamond 1750 tones of earth have to be moved [7]. Where Stephen and Diane’s business has sought to provide a quality product and value for money, they have also challenged an antiquated industry process which has huge environmental cost.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. BoomeRing Communication.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

There were over 2000 participants and around 100 speakers from all over the world. Regulations have not gotten easier, yet “compliance costs have gone down considerably, and maneuvering through the process is less daunting and scary. The sun comes through the clouds.” Also more expensive. Take advantage of these windows.

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