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”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Let’s dive into these stories. The consequences of this are well known to us today.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Andre Durand brings 18 years of software industry executive leadership experience to his role as founder and CEO at Ping Identity. an instant messaging and presence management software provider (acquired by Cisco in 2009). an instant messaging and presence management software provider (acquired by Cisco in 2009).

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. My own personal story fits in with this narrative. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

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. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services. Athenahealth's Culture.

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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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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”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The New Exits. Lessons Learned.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 8, 2018

At first we considered hundreds of potential names, created software to look for URLs, asked friends, made Facebook posts, held meetings and drank a lot. I created blueberrycloud in August of 2015 shortly after I left my position at a local software company. It took over 6 months to come up with the name. None of it worked.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

First, wireless voice networks – cell phone networks – had started to emerge. These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. At the same time, digital data networks to support “pagers” were also growing rapidly.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Do the same thing on other social networks with advertising platforms, like LinkedIn and Facebook. 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.

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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. What a nightmare!

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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. software. (10). Software 2.0: Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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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. Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Image Source).

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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. On one side, mobility is finally getting the attention of software designers and developers in general. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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. Ask others to share original content without changes or comments. Above all, don’t tolerate repeat offenders.

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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. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. The Network May Not be as Valuable as It Seems. The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net.

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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. It didn’t stop there.

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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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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Instead of working a boring internship at a big company, Graham’s pitch went, win $5,000 to work on your startup in Cambridge with guidance from Graham and his friend, MIT professor Robert Morris–two guys who launched Viaweb, a maker of software that built storefronts online, and sold it to Yahoo for $50 million in 1998.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

networking. 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). Social networking applications (SNAs). Networking. Browse Articles by Tag. advertising.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Content Is Profit hosted by Louis and Fonzi Kame, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. I analyzed all the, all of the letters, put them through software tools. And here's something remarkable. The writing got better over time.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 3, 2004

When I first met Andrew in late 1998, he had just finished his Stanford Ph.d This was 1998 and Flashbase was a true predecessor to Intuit’s Quickbase. So Andrew did what most entrepreneurs do, created his own software and service. program in EE from Stanford with other well-known classmates.

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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. It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 What were the election results? What was happening?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets. Apocalypse , and The Last Firewall , science fiction novels exploring the role of artificial intelligence and social networks in the near future.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

which provides consulting and training services in Accounting and productivity based software. and now schoolofbookkeeping.com is one of the leaders in the small business accounting world in online training resources offering courses on a wide range of software products. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. Show Quotes . Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. 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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

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. Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.   Today, we have an angel investor network, the Golden Angels, as well as an entrepreneurship center to spread the entrepreneurial word across campus. . In brief, my own story involves a software company called RTMS in Milwaukee.

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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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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). billion MAUs for the top four social networks. Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash. The joint OpenMarket-MX Telecom business will provide a hosted platform to extend mobile payment and messaging capabilities through an integrated network and product portfolio. and was founded in 1998.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I’ve either gone straight to the forums and asked, or certainly within my network. So that’s your existing network. The general rule here is just have patience.

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