Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. While I understand.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. We had just started an enterprise software company, Epiphany , and we were one of those disruptors. Christensen changed the trajectory of my career and was the guide star for my work on innovation. I never got to say thank you. Eye Opening.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She holds a Software Sourcing Buyer position at IBM where she is also involved with the Hispanic Affinity group.

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deal architect

JUNE 8, 2012

I first met Larry Ellison, briefly, in 1997. I have watched him infuriate competitors, drive analysts to drink, generate more quips than all boring tech execs put together. Over those 15 years I have also learned to look beyond his.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. In other words, there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

The iPhone also launched with iOS – the software platform that makes all of the magic behind that touchscreen possible. For the first time, installing new software became easily accessible to all iPhone users. Lipitor (1997). In fact, it was only the tip of the iceberg. Not the iPhone itself.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ).

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Diego and I first met in 1997. I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I remember in the late 90′s trying to charge fair prices for software when my well-financed competitors were giving things away for free.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Previously, I had worked in creating shrink-wrapped software products for 10 years and then headed a dotcom venture which failed. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4-

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. CNET’s Download.com knows what software people are using. Yet, from the beginnings of the internet age, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) never caved. Amazon knows what people have bought.

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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. People ask me if innovation can flourish in places like Africa and my response is that I encounter innovation everywhere there, when people are forced to innovate to survive, often with scarce resources.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Fast forward to 1997. Long story short, Inktomi acqui-hired me and my puny search engine software (not the site, which earned me some nice cash on the side from ads). If you are a software developer, try to work for a while on a web-scale problem. I started coding in the 80s. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Human Resources (HR).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. The cliche goes, “you get what you pay for,” and in the field of computer software, Jobs believed this was absolutely true when it came to who he hired and kept on at his companies. That trauma? Pay your employees.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

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. If we approach it the right way it will make us stronger.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

It’s out of date now, but if you look for it, you can find the 1997 Dun & Bradstreet research on causes of business failure that listed “too much money&# as one of the causes. And my own company, Palo Alto Software, might not have survived the dot-com crash in 2001 if we’d had more money to spend in 1999.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. It’s not like other software businesses, because every ride has a real and unavoidable marginal cost. The low barriers to entry aren’t just because of the simplicity of the software model, but counter to popular belief, there isn’t a dramatic network effect.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

With my software background before real estate, I found the root cause of these problems started keeping me up at night. It’s amazing how much money we can save companies by leveraging our software and the IRS relocation tax guidelines simultaneously. In 1997 we were IT consultants. Thanks to Jeff Ellman, UrbanBound. #14

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

Customers flocked to Apple, and the company had record-breaking profits with its hardware, software and service. The business model paired integrated hardware, software and service with low-profit iTunes music and the high-profit iPod. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

“… in recent years, outsourced software and manufacturing jobs have largely been replaced by millions of low-wage service jobs in fast-food, retail, and the like. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. During high school & college I had worked in a computer store selling, configuring and implementing software & hardware. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton.

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Gust

OCTOBER 7, 2011

And in 1997, that was pretty cool. After a night of drinking (the event was held in Las Vegas, after all), we realized that we did have some pretty powerful software for manipulating complex images, and that we could continue to focus on that without the expense of hardware development. How did we get the word out?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2022

Pieter is CEO and co-founder of Macanta Software Ltd and a small business systems & automation expert. Pieter was born and raised in South Africa, moving to the UK in 1997. About this episode: In this episode of the Agency Spark Podcast, Sara talks with Pieter K de Villiers on the pain of two-minute tasks.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Customers will be unforgiving and brand image negatively affected if manuals, websites, campaigns and software are not sensitively reproduced in the local language and culture. Penetrating a new market is costly and a company usually only has one chance to get it right. Ellis and D.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. But it was the software that made the TiVo great. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

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).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. The notion of Indian companies bringing software technology to the Western market at dramatically lower price-points is one that I have highlighted on many prior occasions.

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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. All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S. You can watch the full video near the end of this post or read some of the key points we’ve extracted from it.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Slack / Stripe / Mixpanel / Gusto et al grew by selling to software startups.

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We recently announced at Hustle Fund that we will start investing in Southeast Asian software startups, and my new business partner Shiyan Koh, who just moved back home to Singapore, will be leading the charge on that. Slack / Stripe / Mixpanel / Gusto et al grew by selling to software startups.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of the most iconic brands of our time – Apple – was reborn after it launched, in 1997, an innovative campaign inviting people to “Think Different” Today, Apple products are perceived to be better designed, more fun, and more reliable than products from Apple’s competitors.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Customers flocked to Apple, and the company had record-breaking profits with its hardware, software and service. The business model paired integrated hardware, software and service with low-profit iTunes music and the high-profit iPod. But the real innovation was making downloading digital music easy. Types of Disruptive Innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

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Diego Basch

MAY 16, 2011

It reminds me quite a bit of mp3 files in 1997, when they were just a novelty and record companies didn’t know what to make of them. It turned out to be a good investment, as I made some interesting cash operating the system and later sold the software to Inktomi.

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