Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. Government and the American public. My company serves a purpose and promotes goodness. 18- Freedom.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Cuba Haiti Technical Review 100

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Wide Adoption.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. ” (Ironic but possible.).

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Typically you want to see a 3x ratio between the contribution margin per rep (factoring in the lifetime value of the customer, or LTV) and the cost per rep to acquire that customer, fully loaded (i.e., customer acquisition cost or CAC). To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

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.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Naming a Business. Franchises.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. Plenty of headroom there!

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. According to Ferenstein, “AAA estimates that the average cost of car ownership per year is about $9,000.”

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). The next generation of successful VC firms will combine robust investment experience with practical operational experience.

Partner 91

Partner Early Stage Business Model HTML 91

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

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. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous. But you need to think in terms of broader distribution.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works! 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. It’s a big reason why they move quickly.

Government 223

Government Startup Cofounder Technical Support 223

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. So it's been fast-scale.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. Always adapt to what’s most important and sensible for you (and remember that nothing is free, every measurement decision you make has a cost!). Make tough choices.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The “cost” of code inventory is huge. Operating systems, or anything where software has to be installed by every user, is usually batched up. That code is inventory.

Software Review 85

Software Review Software Database New York City 85

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s those who distribute it freely.

Technology 48

Technology Artificial Inteligence Social Media New York 48

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s those who distribute it freely.

Technology 30

Technology Artificial Inteligence Social Media New York 30

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Low Cost Franchises. Semiconductors. Transportation.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Tactile CRM – A cost-effective CRM that tracks sales, deals, emails and customer contacts. Rejose – Applicant tracking system that’s simple, efficient and cost effective. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2018

I realized, it took me about two months because I’m slow, but I realized that scribes have been doing this for 2000 years. The sell of a traditional publisher is they’ve got all the connections, the sales, distributions in place. We use pretty standard distribution channels to be honest. Buddha, his disciples.

Distribution 60

Distribution IP Audience New York 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Aerotel Medical Systems. Allot Communications. BoomeRing Communication.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

After BlazeMeter) With BlazeMeter it is very easy, low-cost and still enterprise-grade. added costs). It will cost you about $160. VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. Before BlazeMeter) Large-scale load testing was complicated, expensive and time consuming.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60