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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. And then in the late 90’s money crept in, swept in to town by public markets, instant wealth and an absurd sky-rocketing of valuations based on no reasonable metrics. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. and (2) their leadership position in multi-billion dollar markets will likely make them dominant players in the software landscape, even though they are still small today (SuccessFactors $2.5B

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). ► 2009. (9). ► 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Software 2.0:

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. There were several great presentations during the conference.

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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). ► 2009. (9). ► 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Software 2.0:

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Cracking The Code: A Quick & Funny Summary of AdTech

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). ► 2009. (9). ► 2007. (10). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Software 2.0:

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Friday, March 12, 2010. Subscribe in a reader.