Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time. And download any of the past shows here.).
Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. They all had no idea what to do with us, because they were used to a database and the web, and the web sessions last for minutes at a time. And download any of the past shows here.).
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Developer of database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. -Online clothing, accessories and décor retailer with focus on independent and vintage-inspired fashion. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm. TechCrunch.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.
Venture Chronicles
MAY 16, 2012
Migration paths are a reality for SAP, as would be the case for any company with a large customer base, and it’s not just about on-premise to cloud but also a major factor in moving from relational databases to integrated OLTP+OLAP in memory systems and user experiences that meet users in a desktop and on a mobile device.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. Proprietary Databases. By then the open-source movement had really developed.
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