ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Software was expensive. ” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. In other words, even an engineering nobody can start a company. No Problem!

Engineer 60

Engineer Database Open Source Acquisition 60

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2012

Co-founding a software company has made Larry Ellison one of the richest (and most tabloid-worthy) men in America. “The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 – 1993″ by Jordan Mechner and Danica Novgorodoff. It’s an excellent story of a complex man.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley 174

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Install, upgrade and train people on hard to use slow, ancient-looking enterprise software. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Greg knows consumer businesses and customers, which has added tremendously to our team where I admittedly have more of a background in enterprise software, data and online video. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing. We believe there is a similar trend in Fantasy Sports.

Southern California 150

Southern California Philadelphia Mobile Stock 150

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/P5m3MIsUjk. Breaking Design Principles on Purpose | Design Shack – crowdspring.co/1gkHTPn. 40 High Quality And Free Minimalistic Icon Sets – crowdspring.co/1gkGdoX. 19EITGp.

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

My experience with channels started in 1993 and has been almost entirely in stores and chains selling packaged computer software, but I’ve talked to a lot of people dealing in other kinds of channels, and their experiences seem to be quite the same as my own.

Product 82

Product Channel Distribution Software Review 82

Feld Thoughts

MAY 19, 2021

We started a company that year with Sameer Gandhi and Andy Sack called Martingale Software that failed pretty quickly. Several years later, we started Feld Technologies, which we ran together from 1987 to 1993 when we sold it to Sage Alerting Systems, which later renamed itself to AmeriData Technologies.

Entrepreneur 135

Entrepreneur Technology Software 135

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

Marc released Mosaic in 1993. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Install, upgrade and train people on hard to use slow, ancient-looking enterprise software. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. launched a contact management software. 7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. All manual operations. Et voilà: the first CRM.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. I thought I’d pay it forward. It turned into this blog. Here’s a personal story.

Europe 352

Europe France San Francisco Chicago 352

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In the late ’90s Microsoft was the world’s most valuable company and dominated virtually every category of software that mattered, and even some that didn’t matter that much (e.g. MSFT has more billion dollar software franchises than you can shake a stick at (Dynamics in SMB CRM, Sharepoint, etc). browsers).

Cloud 113

Cloud Azure Phoenix Non-Compete 113

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

Here are a few examples from my first company, Feld Technologies (1987 – 1993). Hyperion : While Feld Technologies was a software consulting company, the companies that installed the networks that our software ran on (mostly PC-based Novell Networks) were so shitty that we set up our own small network installation group.

Software 167

Software Boston Venture Capital Networking 167

Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Peter: John, what if I built my website in 1993 and maybe it’s due for an update? You built your website in 1993? Jonathan: Hold on a second.

SBA 60

SBA Technical Review Software Review Small Business 60

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I stopped programming around 1993 although I occasionally had to dive back in and support something that I had previously written until the late 1990′s, when I stopped for good because I simply had no time. And I stopped developing software before object-oriented programming became popular. is now taught using Python.

PHP 134

PHP SQL Ruby Bandwidth 134

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). As a person with a visual impairment and who uses screen magnification software, I find sans serif easier to read online. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 113-123 ). De Lange, R.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. And learn from each other.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. At the time, software was considered extremely valuable and nobody was allowed to download it without going through a complex registration process.

CTO 78

CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 1, 2016

He played a major role in Governor Whitman’s 1993 election campaign, and has managed or advised numerous legislative, county and local campaigns on issues management and communications strategy. Coyle’s columns are considered a highlight of the paper and forcefully expound on issues of importance to the business community. Corporate Partners.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Egypt Indonesia Government 60

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business.

Term Sheet 106

Term Sheet Seattle Angel Investor Bootstrapping 106

Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Switching costs may include disposal fees for the old junk, training for new stuff, hardware upgrades, software patches, the time it takes to buy/train/learn the new item, and pretty much anything else associated with the new thing to consume or use. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. Sometimes these can be quite high.

Zimbabwe 60

Zimbabwe Stealth Incubator Cost 60

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. They knew they needed to get into industrial software and data. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment. What was it, and how did it come about? When I was at PepsiCo, I started the Super Bowl halftime show with Michael Jackson.

Southern California 123

Southern California North America Finance Lean 123

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Switching costs may include disposal fees for the old junk, training for new stuff, hardware upgrades, software patches, the time it takes to buy/train/learn the new item, and pretty much anything else associated with the new thing to consume or use. It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. Sometimes these can be quite high.

Zimbabwe 48

Zimbabwe Stealth Incubator Cost 48

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Palo Alto Software’s founder, Tim Berry, discusses these clichés in his latest video on Vimeo: Startups and Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Clichés. Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. You can watch the full video near the end of this post or read some of the key points we’ve extracted from it.

Lean 119

Lean Startup Business Plan Video 119

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? Just do it (Nike) – 1988.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? Just do it (Nike) – 1988.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 1993, Word 6.0 I don’t think these stories have ever been shared publicly before, and they are stories that I believe deserve to be told. These stories will hopefully show you several examples of product managers doing their job and doing it well. WORD FOR MAC – Martina Lauchengco.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 28, 2018

We’ve been around since 1993 (we’re a dinosaur compared to the technology startups of the 2000’s – another play on the alligator – but we’ve experienced great success, and our name helps us stand out from our competitors. So I wanted my business name to embody this energy! 18- Based on our tagline.

Naming 76

Naming Entrepreneur Green Lead Generation 76

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

All of these can fall broadly under the term “user testing,” though that has taken a more specific connotation with remote user testing softwares proliferating. You can do these in-person with actual cards or pieces of paper, or more commonly, use software to do so. Moderated User Testing. Image Source. Hierarchical grouping of needs.

Conversion 103

Conversion Metrics Architecture Design 103

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

We did our own analysis of venture-backed software IPOs a couple of years ago (based on SEC filings, etc.) An interesting side note is that Veritas and Peoplesoft both went public in 1993 and were both acquired last week. using pre-bubble data and this is what we found.

IPO 60

IPO SEC Valuation Revenue 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

In a landmark paper by Griffin and Hauser in Marketing Science (1993), they defined four aspects to take into consideration when conducting voice of customer research. Initially created as a way to link customer needs to performance measures in Japanese product development, VOC has jumped into the mainstream of market research.

Conversion 48

Conversion Customer Software Review Audience 48

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. The price of software might leverage the decision. According to the survey, graphic designers are struggling to charge the appropriate fees for their services commensurate with value and overhead investments. No, actually it won’t. Ooh hugely!

South Africa 67

South Africa Africa Design Community 67

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Design fees are at a 1993 level, despite salary increases and operation costs. The price of software might leverage the decision. According to the survey, graphic designers are struggling to charge the appropriate fees for their services commensurate with value and overhead investments. No, actually it won’t. Ooh hugely!

South Africa 67

South Africa Africa Design Community 67

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Last December when one techie interviewed by an SFGate reporter equated the word with a racial slur, a popular industry blog suggested it be replaced with the term “Software American.”). “Do The “dot-commers” of the nineties have become the “techies” of the twenty-teens, but apparently the label doesn’t sit well with everyone.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. VC asked me to have lunch with the CEO of a startup building cloud-based enterprise software.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217