SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Not that I blame you! Silly, right?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

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. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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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