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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. People were building.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Cracking The Code: Software 2.0: How the use of internet is.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. To win in this new space, software companies need new marketing skills. Friday, April 13, 2007.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. reviews, reputation, Yelp!, In the end, the review?

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

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. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

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. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

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