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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. In stead of growing revenue and holding down costs and building great company cultures the market chased valuation validation.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. At GE the biggest problem in 2017 was major revenue misses in their Power business.)

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Here’s why.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter to quarter or even year to year revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Here’s why.

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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. Each time a visitor clicks on one of those links, the referring site earns a bit of revenue.”. by Max Emelianov, CEO of HostForWeb.

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Can You Track An Employee’s Cell Phone Without Installing Software?

YoungUpstarts

If you provide company-owned phones, laptops, or vehicles, then you may legally install some forms of GPS tracking software. But what if you want to track an employee without installing software? Thus, a smartphone, laptop, or other electronic devices that are provided by your company can legally contain tracking software on it.

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boldstart 2018 recap and what’s hot in enterprise 2019

BeyondVC

No matter what economic cycle we go through, Fortune 500 companies need to invest in software.”. Designing software with a privacy-first mentality becomes a core theme in 2019. The 10 year bull market where every company’s revenue chart is up and to the right is over. Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable.

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