Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. Subscribe to the Gust Blog. Enter your email address to subscribe to the Gust Blog. Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email.
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The Equity Kicker
APRIL 24, 2014
The data points below show that in terms of the IPO market at least the heat is nothing like what it was in 1999. Median sales of company at time of IPO — $12m in 1999 vs. $106m in 2013. in 1999 vs. 5.5x Total # of tech IPOs — 369 in 1999 vs 45 in 2013. billion in 1999 vs $8.5 Total IPO proceeds raised — $33.5
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 28, 2011
Creating a mobile application can be very time-consuming and expensive, which is why a lot of bloggers and blog sites don’t bother coming out with a mobile app of their own. Not any more – Bloapp ( www.bloapp.com ) is a free web tool that helps converts blogs into a native iPhone app in less than five minutes.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
When it came to ROI in 1999, the bigger, brighter, and more noticeable your yellow pages’ ad was, the better. Yes, we know there was email marketing in 1999, but it was in its infancy. Print catalogs worked in 1999, and they still work today. In 1999, business buyers had stacks of corporate brochures and folders on hand.
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 31, 2018
A bonus blog post for your holiday perusal. So here it is, the Sammatron’s Tech Top 10 for 2018… enjoy: Blog Post of the year: Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff , who contends that the one percent are plotting to leave us behind. We can do it – but first we must understand it.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It was Steve Blank – creator of the “customer development” process, founder of E.piphany (a high profile CRM company in the late 90’s that IPO’d in 1999), instructor at both Stanford and Berkeley and author of a well read blog.
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