Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A director at OSI, a C-level exec at a hot open source startup and an activist in the software freedom movement, expect the unexpected, the fascinating and the infuriating. Flawed Web services as a strategy was fundamentally flawed in my view because it was so un-web. Sadly, that was the last thing the Internet really needed.

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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. CDs) – shouldn’t change whether the software should be taxed.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 16, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Free Fonts for Web & Graphic Designers | Graphic Design Junction – crowdspring.co/1uUYzSV. 50 Fantastic And Free Web UI Kits – crowdspring.co/1uUZm6c.

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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. I understand his frustration.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Die | The Next Web - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

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. Had I tried to fundamentally change how everyone writes software, I'm sure I would have failed. Change is hard, so a person has to be experiencing real pain to want change.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – [link]. Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples – [link]. A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

2000+ Illustrator Symbols for Illustrators and Animators – [link]. Web Designers: A Guide To Using Custom Scrollbars On Your Site – [link]. Purple In Web Design: A New Trend? Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples – [link]. A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design – [link].

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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. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. Thank you for the kind introduction.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Many merchants are finding that fan pages eliminate the need for web sites, and that clicking like is very much a replacement for filling out a form to get on a mailing list. Web sites already offer the option of logging in with Facebook or creating an account with an email address and password. Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. 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. I’m going to start by going back to 1994.

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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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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. He then served as the Chairman and CEO of iMeet, a provider of web-conferencing services. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000.

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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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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. 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.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. Siebel took off the most important features from the Database Marketing Systems and combined them with contact management solutions software. Back to those (early) days when Marketing Automation was just born, the world was web-centric.

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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. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. One example is outsourcing our original software development and it eventually had to be redone.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Along with their demise came a dismissive attitude about most entrepreneurial web-related endeavors.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. at this stage. Now you have your burden: $7.15/hr.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

There were a lot of the first spreadsheets, and the first different software applications. I’ve talked to about 1800 to 2000 companies a year… I always think the shorthand for Demo is, “I’ll look at all those start-ups so you don’t have to.” Web platforms were very, very new at that time.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? And that’s why now is a fantastic time to start a blog.

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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. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. The Funding Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Polls, surveys, quizzes, personality tests – these formats which engage the user and encourage shares have been proven to deliver quality leads and drive web traffic. Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. 406 Ventures.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. American Biophysics debuted the Mosquito Magnet in 2000, at the height of the West Nile Virus scare. His solution?

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