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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT.

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The next phase of innovation

Start Up Blog

This can be done through products, services, methods, processes, business models or governance. . Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. Their financial dominance is a clear function of the consumer utility they have provided, no doubt. But, they have become an invasive species.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). No matter the name?—?the Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

ithacaVC

There are actually four people named on the IP and it was a multi-disciplinary project…This was the first product to come out of our department.”. A faculty member doesn’t have the time to think about market opportunities and the time frame required to move through the business model process.”.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. How / must your business model evolve to leverage these new opportunities?

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital.