Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Open source became a movement – a mentality. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. Tools in the New Bubble.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

. … An apparently perfect device can provide a safe harbor for numerous threats– in the form of old and vulnerable chip designs, Trojan horses, or kill switches– that are difficult or impossible to detect.” Washington would be better off following a more ‘open-source’ approach to information sharing.

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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. I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. Usability design is a highly iterative process, and the more customers who are involved (via in-person interview, split-test experiment, etc) the better.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Policy makers need to know: regulations designed to manage big-companies actually protect those companies by stifling innovation (and competition) from startups. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. There’s always been a sweet spot in my heart for flying cars.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies are no different; the syndication formats RSS and Atom were the subject of a bitter format war starting around the year 2000. For mass market industries, this comes down to good user experience design. Ease of education is a driving force in the design of new technology. Can your mother use her cell phone?

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 5, 2003

Backing Tilion’s vision in a December 2000 article from Internet.com , Eric Schmidt, now CEO of Google, commented, “Tilion finally allows large enterprises and exchanges to go beyond the simple enablement or automation of B2B transactions. Tilion allows you see into systems which were designed to be closed.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

SlideRocket – Design professional quality presentations and then deliver them in person or over the Web. Oprius – A contact management software designed for independent sales people. ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents. Xythos – Online document management and storage.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Bug Tracking - You can go open source and save money, but you may lose it eventually in the time you spend maintaining and upgrading it. Pricey, but based on my hourly rate it’s cheaper than the open source solution I used previously when you factor in upgrades, crashes, and manual workarounds for missing functionality.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they. before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x);

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. Designed by. Yes, exposing bugs is great. startupcto

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

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. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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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. Back in 2000 I followed the traditional VC trail, raised a lot of money to build (with a cofounder) one of the first interactive advertising companies.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” So what of the tech sector and its bubbles?

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