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BeyondVC
APRIL 4, 2018
Couple that with Mulesoft being bought for 21x TTM revenue ( see Tomasz Tunguz analysis ) at $6.5 Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1). Rise of multi-cloud.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. Enter Burstly.
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Ben's Blog
APRIL 27, 2011
When Alfred presented the acquisition to BEA’s board of directors, one prominent board member said: “if you think that this company is going to pay $150M for a company with $150K in revenue, you are out of your f&%!$n’ So how would Alfred, coming off a role managing thousands of people, billions of dollars in revenue, and achieving an $8.5B
nikcub.appspot.com
MARCH 8, 2012
Webmasterworld - A popular forum for web developers. SitePoint Forums - A popular marketplace and forum for web developers. Business of Software - Joel Spolskys forum which has been running for over a decade now. Full of smart people running their own startups and ISVs (independent software vendors). Recent Posts.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. 2012 virtual good revenue is expected to top $12 billion this year.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
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.
sivers.org
JUNE 25, 2010
Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Nothing essential that I disagree with you in your post, but when read by other people with minimal software engineering experience, they can have too high expectations.
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