Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me. These are very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The second is that the retailers were constrained by their high costs of local real estate and service staff relative to the costs of centralized warehouses where goods could be stacked high, sorted by robots, managed by RFIDs and then shipped via overnight to eager, cost-conscious customers across the US.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. But all things are never equal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We spoke with the head of innovation at one Fortune 500 company who told us his only metric for early-stage innovation is “how many assumptions have you tested this week?” If I think I can sell 100 widgets at $10 apiece, and they cost me $5 to build and market, that''s a business model. It''s that the business model is complex.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. When the first microwave oven hit the market in 1955, it cost roughly $12,000 in today’s dollars; today you can pick one up for $64 on Amazon.

Artificial Inteligence 141

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Global Technology 141

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The difference between “remote” and “distributed” is that in a remote team, there is a company office(s) where some team members are based full-time. A distributed team has no location base – everyone is in a different place. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. My kind of office view….

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

We’ve always invested across different stages - in fact, one of our very first investments as a firm in 2009 was in the Skype spin-out from eBay - but until very recently, we’ve always done so out of a single fund structure and with the same teams that are focused on our early-stage investment activities. No need to name names.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 15, 2016

It also means that we should already be in the early stages of that next big era. The end result is that it’s now cost effective to put a computer in virtually anything. All of this means that there’s widespread availability of large data sets that can be stored inexpensively through cloud storage providers.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high. Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. This can happen near instantaneously.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. The “blockchain” is a distributed consensus system that allows transactions, or other data, to be securely stored and verified without any centralized authority. This can happen near instantaneously.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence United States Technical Review Global 40

Rob Go

JULY 11, 2013

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. We tend to favor companies that have a “distribution advantage”. So what are some examples of distribution advantages? Legacy Distribution Power : Quite a few successful companies got a nice head start because of legacy traffic.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. The Definitive Guide to Building a Brand.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design. followed by a series of factors like “cost,” “reputation of instructors,” and “interactivity.” How are they organized and distributed?

Software Review 115

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

Teams were savvy enough to know that fully formed, completed descriptions of users are an impossibility at the early stages of design. followed by a series of factors like “cost,” “reputation of instructors,” and “interactivity.” How are they organized and distributed?

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. Nearly all of your costs will be headcount, primarily in the engineering department. The availability of low-cost technology is just one piece of the puzzle.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. I received an invitation to attend the event. Quotable Quotes. startupcto

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Nothing is going to stop cloud.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses. Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. |. 2 Comments.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. Ryan Hornbeck , Computer and Cloud Systems Integrator.

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Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.

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Cloud North America EC2 106

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

I previously covered on VC Cafe the state of ‘Creative Automation’ Cloud-based asset management, build, and release systems – Most of the 3D content used in these games/experiences is hard coded and locked. Why can’t the assets be centrally managed in the cloud?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Cloud Infrastructure. see the Libcloud -compatible cloud providers. tells you how much adwords cost. cloud-based survey, free account. Cloud-based drawing tool.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93