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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned about revenue recognition. The things you learn in tough environments.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. How did the site come about?

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Marketing Consultant Amish Shah Made His Start As A Futurist Not A Fortune Teller

YoungUpstarts

Don’t let Forbes ‘s chosen name for the best of the best fool you; nobody gets to consult Fortune 500 companies on internet marketing strategy by building a technique based on fortune alone. Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

They’re cutting salaries and making the last tens of thousands — or if they’re lucky a hundred thousand — last. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. November 29, 2012.

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BizMe2 is Looking to Disrupt Conferences with Turnkey Solution (Interview)

VC Cafe

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary. and our brilliant developers worked without a salary (for options).

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

By generating a steady revenue from consulting projects and sales, the founders were able to spend time growing their business slowly. Today, Litmus has had over 30,000 customers, 1 million+ in revenue, and is growing by around 10% a month. They paid themselves small salaries and setup monetary goals for the business each month.