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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Feed the left by working on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and be the only one geeking out about an Access database to track guests. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Ultimately, there are dozens of potential factors that may slow down the response of your server: slow application logic, slow database queries, slow routing, frameworks, libraries, resource CPU starvation, or memory starvation. Slow database queries : These occur when your database queries aren’t firing efficiently.

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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

All they’re doing is filling a database. The only thing you did was get listed on Crunchbase or Pitchbook or some other database and you’ve just met an analyst who is screening for all the infosec companies that have raised less than $5mm. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, I would fund, at most, 10 out of about 2000 deals I’d see in a year.

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Investing in Downturns

VC Adventure

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Here’s a bit more detail on investments made the year before each of these downturns and the year after the downturn.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

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. The internet is working.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. Et voilà: the first CRM.