Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Fortunately there’s some case law here which might help, and we only have to go back to earlier Internet days and the concept of safe harbor. It’s the evolution of what I hoped — not software eating the world, but software enabling it. And it’s moving very very quickly.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Precept Software, another of her startups, was bought by Cisco just prior to the company's stock price run-up, "so we had a great outcome for our investors.".

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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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. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Harness the internet to validate your business idea. Not only does it get you to think about your market and the structure of your business, but the LivePlan software even lets you test your assumptions in the financial section. Sold to Yahoo!

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. internet. (6). software. (10). Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transform. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job.

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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 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. The background for my story.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Ad creative was also split tested.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. In addition, we have a VPN for remote access to this share drive.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Writing software for mobile is not the same as for fixed desktops or PCs. These early adopters have access to high-end handsets, access to the Internet, the Web and applications, music on their handsets, personal information and access to friends.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Looking into the belly of the beast The Cyberpower Gamer Extreme is like a PC from 1998 that time-traveled to meet us in 2016, it is not Wifi enabled. Thankfully, the PC comes with a USB wireless adapter so that you can get on the internet right away. This is where you install the Vive and Steam software. You PC is now unboxed.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. 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? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. That’s OK.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. 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? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. That’s OK.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. And a month later the bubble burst.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Since 1994, Conway has been doing angel investing in solely internet software. Conway’s first fund, Angel Investors I, raised and invested in 1998, generated a 7 times return. He may know a thing or two about funding the next big thing. He is one of six people for SV Angel, which is on its third fund of $30M.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. For me and my Jewish CEO boss, though, as officers of a public software company, September 30 was a tough day to be out of the office, sitting in synagogue atoning for a year full of sins. We priced our enterprise software in the form of a perpetual license. million to $22.5

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Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. He figured out a way to upgrade the software on your home computer over the internet. The episode tracks one patent bought by his company, Intellectual Ventures. Patent number 5771354.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!,

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? 8 – The Unsung Hero of Health.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Ifthere are seven or eight, disagreements can linger and harden intofactions.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

Step #10 – Sorting applications by job — once applications are received, the goal is to ensure that the highest quality applications are sorted relevant to the most appropriate jobs (manually or via software). Sadly, the user system that has powered our website since 1998 no longer plays nicely with todays technology.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. If you look at readability statistics or readability software, it's measured by grade level. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): And here's something remarkable. The writing got better over time.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  Admittedly it is a distant second to California in software and Internet innovation, but as a proud Boston-based VC, I was pleased to see Terry brimming with confidence in Boston as an entrepreneurial hub.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. That’s it.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked. Labels: SaaS , software.

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