Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS.
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Because they are open source. Google has optimized this open source to freemium model in almost all of its products. Acquia, Inc.
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Berkonomics
JUNE 1, 2023
It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. 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.
Berkonomics
APRIL 20, 2017
It is the focus for state and federal governments worldwide, many finding ways to reward innovators with tax incentives or investors with tax credits to finance innovative new enterprises. 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.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. I understand why he wants to differentiate himself but I wonder if a scorched Earth strategy against the main funding source for your company pays in the long run. We all know that.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011. An entrepreneurial ecosystem is driven one of two ways; either by a crisis (i.e. innovation in the U.S. during World War II,) or during peacetime by profit. In the U.S.
rapidrollout.wordpress.com
JANUARY 15, 2011
Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? For one thing, you’ll learn from his mistakes.
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