BeyondVC
JANUARY 3, 2019
Some of these themes include privacy/ML, next gen CMS, intelligent automation, and developer productivity. All are developer first companies respectively in zero trust security, automation, and developer productivity. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.
Berkonomics
JUNE 1, 2023
It is not hard to find strands of gold in the carnage left by failed businesses lost when a bubble bursts, such as in 1857, 1902, 1929, 2001 and 2008. We can’t help but be amazed by the rapid developments in artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI). Sometimes, innovators enable unfinished visions of others.
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Ben's Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001. By revolutionizing the enterprise computing market with the Application Server category, Alfred generated ferocious competition from industry behemoths: IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP, and the new, powerful open source movement.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. The combination of the Internet and open source transformed the functionality in modern programming tools, increasing developer productivity 10 fold. Much better.
The Next Web
AUGUST 6, 2013
WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Facebook does it – they push new code to their platform at least twice a day and this includes changes to their API, which has over 40,000 developers using it for building apps. Real world example: WebVan vs Zappos.
VC Cafe
MARCH 18, 2010
W ith the explosion of ecommerce, open source ecommerce solutions such as Varien’s Magento, are gaining the attention of startups and established industry players. According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.
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