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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Patrick is completely correct here.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in 6 Questions

www.readwriteweb.com

Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. You just have to understand what theyre trying to accomplish and then match your design with those goals. To design like a teenager in 1997 using MS publisher is incredibly painful.

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