Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Here’s why. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. ” What does “execute arbitrary code” mean? Literally, it means that the attacker can choose to have your server execute any code they can dream up.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

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. Software is eating the world. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

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. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. The market change: Software as a Service. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. Image source ). Write the User Manual.

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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. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. 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. Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. Forgot your username or password?

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. Now imagine you are selling any other asset, be it a piece of art, a home, a piece of software, or perhaps your car. The real oversupply might be over 100X.).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

And sales enablement software helps arm sales teams with the information they need to close sales. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Sales enablement software, instead, lets you do two things: 1. Image Source. This requires extra effort.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The content creation and distribution aspects of inbound get most of the attention. And when you opt-in for one of their many whitepapers, software demos, or free tools on their site, you’ll start receiving information via email that educates you on the benefits of their products.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Human Resources (HR).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. John Jantsch (21:56): You know, you mentioned obviously hybrid workplaces, distributed workplaces, you know, are, are certainly they've been going on for a long time. Like this show? Like this show?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

and use my promo code, podcast, for my special offer. and use my promo code, podcast. That’s launchwith.us, promo code, podcast. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter. But now you can choose a.us domain to help your business stand out, reserve your.us This is John Jantsch. Register your.us

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

80-90% software products vs. 40-50% advertising products) and company maturity (e.g., For example if you have a 90% gross margin SaaS software product and assign a $1.1M Stanford B-School case on Jive Software by Mark Leslie and Mark Stevens. a "jungle" stage company would have a lower quota than a "highway" company).

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

She is the Vice President of Corporate Marketing for the marketing automation software provider, Marketo. We’re going to talk about some of the findings from what, I think, is a somewhat massive undertaking that takes the form of an eBook called The State of Engagement: Insights on Engagement from 2000 Global Consumers and Marketers.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. How I can find the right investor (software)?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Our guest and COO of Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons, shares his favorite online tools to get your business up and running. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. Jonathan: Yeah, sounds good to me.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Clutter and disorganized content suggest a lack of attention to detail, or an inability to distill information into a meaningful summary that, due to the halo effect, people assume reflects the overall character of the business.”. Luxury brands are now cultural codes. Emphasize exclusivity. Image source.

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