Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I urge you to oppose HB 1192, the so-called “Software” Tax. I have been in the technology industry for 30+ years.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Only 15 technology startups are accepted at a time, but what the program lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality. Harvard Innovation Lab.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Only install applications from trusted application “stores” Apple, Google, and RIM (Blackberry) all have a vested interest in offering secure software to their device owners. However, the Android platform is more open and allows device owners to install their own software or other software that they download from the Internet.

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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. This may work in stable markets and technologies.

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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. This may work in stable markets and technologies.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Identifying specific pain points and explaining how your software addresses those is easier than trying to tap into a general malaise and promising a better world. But disruptive is rare and usually expensive.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Only three things make society richer over time – physical capital, worker capital, and technology – with the latter being the greatest. In 2000, some economists believed that the world had entered a “ new economy ” based on the incredible communications and computing advances made throughout the 1990s.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). I’m going to start by going back to 1994.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As Latinitas ambassadors, they have offered their expertise and support in event planning, marketing, business, technology and more. Before Facebook, she held various roles in Customer Success at Amazon and built global education technology products at Pearson Education in New York City.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. launched a contact management software. Customer Data Platforms will fill the current technology gap in three important ways: Data loss minimization.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . NFTs are unique digital bearer assets which may include a variety of software-enabled rights.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. In other words, there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. One of the greatest industry challenges is educating the public about the security behind digital technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. Thinking Aloud Bill Clerico technology trends WePay'

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. During the decade between 1991 and 2000, nearly 2000 venture backed companies went public. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below. (It

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. When running a startup company, there are many benefits to being at the forefront of technology. Access to New Technologies.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. I have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. Most enterprise software companies are self-funded sailboats.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2020

We got our start with process automation in the 2000’s, and we never stopped looking for ways to help our clients get to their business outcomes faster. Innovative software solutions to automate product configuration or pricing were often overlooked in their approach. Fast forward to the RPA wave that is sweeping through businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Technology has changed almost everything in the modern world – and now it’s changing the concept of money too. While some cryptocurrencies make it their business to take on Bitcoin, Ethereum is going from strength to strength by supporting and expanding the Bitcoin platform.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Marketing futures can be really good for enterprise software companies where the information is passed between sales rep and potential customer in terms of near-term roadmap. I know because I did this in early 2000. But it is a big mistake to tell too many people where you’re heading. I call this “marketing futures.&#

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. The market change: Software as a Service. Prior to SaaS applications becoming available, the bottleneck for adopting new software applications was the time required to deploy, update, and adopt the applications. At this point, you are probably thinking: “Ben, you are an idiot. The reason?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2005, SETI@home changed its software: instead of the old SETI@home Classic they started using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing , or BOINC for short — a software framework that enables volunteers to participate in projects other than SETI@home. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Tony is the Founder and CEO of RedMane Technology. He has some insights on technology and how to use it to impact the world. Technology is just one of our tools. RedMane is a software solutions and systems integration firm with a culture of client success, people focus, and unwavering integrity. That’s awesome.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Chris Shipley is executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, through which business, technology, policy and philanthropic leaders work together to identify and solve to some of the world’s biggest challenges. I know that there are a lot of … “fill in the blank” and technology, or “fill in the blank” and startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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