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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 tldr IT WORKED!

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

ConversionXL

How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products.

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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. Secondly, developers are more productive. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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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. These are very different.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, Ajeet was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix , an enterprise data storage industry. Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise startups at Aster Data Systems , where he was Senior Director of Product Management. You may be in the wrong product at first.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

We were the only folks with a product on the credit card space. It’s giving them their footing… Making sure they understand everything from where the snacks are, to how to order lunch, to who is on the team, and what’s the product, and all of that good stuff. They don’t have to go get folded into the product.