2008 Balance Sheet Revenue Software Review 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
There were startups and a software industry but barely. We had nascent revenues, ridiculous cost structures and unrealistic valuations. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. Until we weren’t.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. 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.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
So as of 2008 total LP commitments were still at nearly $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. Revenue must come from a primary source (as opposed to advertising or other third party sources).
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. I think about this in customers and protecting your employees and customers, always protect your P&L, your revenue.
Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 18, 2008
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 31, 2020
Understanding this, historically, the government has enacted a number of policies to improve access to public markets and home ownership, such as many changes to the tax code and legislation that famously made 401(k)s opt-out instead of opt-in (lesson: intelligent defaults can change the world). in addition to home ownership.
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