Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - You have a data problem.

Flash 326

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. These include the hiring of virtual assistants, which lowers operational costs while increasing the level of productivity. . By outsourcing services, the small business owner can capitalize on comparative advantages in costs, particularly labor. . From a company worth $1.6

Small Business 60

Small Business Non-Compete Europe Philippines 60

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. Eloqua was the proof of that.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Tips from Matt Mickiewicz: To keep costs low try swapping services for other services. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. He mentioned that an idea is worth nothing and often times fails because lack of distribution channel.

EC2 53

EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Still, popularity comes at a cost: HubSpot owns only one of the top search results for “inbound marketing”; GrowthHackers ranks seventh for “growth hacking.”.

Naming 119

Naming Conversion Flash Cofounder 119

Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently). It’s hard to transition buyers and sellers over to the acquirer’s marketplace, as I’ve seen first hand.

IPO 60

IPO Distribution Channel Business Model 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration. What’s Next in 2012….

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. Our open source counterparts who did solve the scale problem, had some serious hardware costs to deal with.

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San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. These can add millions to the cost of doing business. You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation. The market is moving back up, but slowly.

IPO 223

IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. In parenthesis is the cumulative distribution divided by called capital.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. We don’t believe in it anymore. These days we all use Skype and collaboration tools.

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San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Toshiba Laptops. We get notebooks.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Bryce Dot VC

MAY 1, 2013

At that time, cell phones cost $2,000 and calls were 50 cents a minute. I didn’t get my first mobile phone until 1999. The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed indeed.' Mine is the one of the poster boy of wealth clutching his massive brick of a mobile phone while brokering another million dollar deal.

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Mobile Distribution Global Conversion 61

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Founding Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. And you know, a cost goes out with an acquisition, so whether it’s hiring a salesperson, commissions, or paying Google. The vast majority of their customer acquisition is word of mouth. David Zhang.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. The High Cost of Free. While many of our digital services (like Facebook and Google) are free, they come with real costs. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s.

Government 79

Government Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Social Media 79

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. (This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites. Facebook Apps).

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.” So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online. I have got to make this stuff work on iPhones anyway, so I have got to do something new.”. “My

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