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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Digital Advertising Is Broken: Three Alternatives For Businesses Looking To Monetize Their Website

YoungUpstarts

Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive. More than being vehicles of marketing and revenue, this means that resource-hogging advertisement networks are often vehicles for malware. The Harvard Business Review does an excellent job of this. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001. The Subscription Model.

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Can Document Management Restore Consumers’ Trust In Enterprises?

YoungUpstarts

Andrew McGill , recently featured in The Atlantic , built a fake web toaster just to see how long it took to get hacked: Compromised within the very hour it came into existence, McGill’s findings lent further credibility to consumer sentiment: They don’t trust businesses with their information. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

If we are in a bubble, that is a bit of an odd commentary for a company that grew revenues 83% year-over-year and grew earnings 93% year-over-year. In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

To find out whether or not today’s public technology companies have hit bubble valuations, let’s compare some companies that survived the great bubble with their bubble era valuations: The Enterprise Value-to-Revenue multiple (EV/Rev) and Price-to-Earnings multiple (PE) are commonly used metrics to tell the valuation:value story. Much better.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

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. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. and profits!

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. There was now a public market for companies with no revenue, no profit and big claims.