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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. With this decline, the average EV/08 rev. So were do we go from here?

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

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In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Software is eating the world. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The Funding Problem.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

. * The European and Israeli cloud ecosystem is accelerating as never before. Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. The development of Azure and the shift to the cloud has propelled the company to new heights.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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