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Why Small Teams Win: Eight Reasons To Stick To The “Two-Pizza” Rule

YoungUpstarts

Each team had the competence and authority to make the decisions necessary to complete the entire product development cycle, including the quality of the software, the functionality, and the architectural blueprint. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

Still in second inning for enterprise move to cloud : Regardless of what economic cycle we endure, the Fortune 500 march to a cloud-native architecture will continue. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Premium-brand market leaders [.] Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I recession in 2009.”.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. As a result of the shift in application architecture, the old computing infrastructure became inappropriate and created new companies in Networking, Storage, and Management Software like Cisco and EMC. Since then and over the last 10 years, everything has gotten better. Much better.

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The CEO’s CEO

Ben's Blog

In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001. The transition from today’s web back-end architectures to tomorrow’s cloud computing will result in profound benefits. Alfred’s tiny, expensive acquisition became the company and the company became great.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Currently they face enormous pressure to innovate faster, and are responding with Drupal 8, which will incorporate many new modern web architectures previously not part of the Drupal platform. Acquia, Inc.

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