Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can’t sell anything without significant traffic, especially since 80% of it is crap even with a good campaign, and it is preferable that some of that traffic is not costing you dollars per click. On top of that, the cost has escalated tremendously over time.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

At the time, the cost of each of these valuations ran between $10,000 and $15,000 annually for each company. These costs have come down a lot since then, and the rules have been tweaked a bit but the overall 409A framework still is as it was when originally adopted – companies must hire a 3rd party to value their stock each year.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media. software. (10).

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 3, 2010

Such facilities can take a lot of cash to launch due to the cost of facility rent and equipment costs, and the aspiring entrepreneur had no ready source of cash. The point is that some modest tweaks to the business model may bring costs way down and still meet the need of the market. 2005 to $4.4 We were ranked.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. Five Tips To Improve Employee Performance Reviews – [link]. SEO Pricing: 600+ Agencies Share Costs of Services & Pricing Models – [link]. 41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – [link].

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). In some strange way, a big part of his competitive advantage is that he is able to outsource everything and maintain such a low cost structure. So it can be done. Engineering/QA.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. round closed Feb 2005. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

The opportunity cost of lost time is huge. And IM (Instant Messenger) has now been replaced with texting as well as software like Microsoft Lync, which are more secure and have built-in video conference features now that virtually all laptops and tablets have cameras built in. In startups, you have no time to waste. Every day counts.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Durant lost control of GM to a bankers' trust just two years later, in 1910, due to enormous debt and a crumble in automobile sales. Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer were all shuttered due to GM's bankruptcy, which occurred on June 1, 2009. It cost him $4.8B It was originally a holding company founded by William C. Durant in 1908.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Click fraud first came to light in 2005, when several major cases were taken to court. Juniper Research estimates that click fraud cost advertisers $42 billion in 2019. Believe it or not, consumers who highly value particular brands click on competitors’ ads—knowing it will cost them money. Image source ). Potential buyers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

According to Title 21 (Part 11) of the Code of Federal Regulations, all computer systems used to create, modify, and maintain electronic records and signatures (including mobile devices) are subject to FDA validation. All hardware and software must be readily available at all times for FDA inspection.

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Professor VC

JULY 31, 2008

I assembled textbook chapters, Harvard Business Review articles, cases, and notes to pull together my own textbook. However, the cost to the students ended up at over $140. hp coupon code. How Much Diligence is Due. It was kind of fun to add each case and see the price of the book adjust on the fly. NCH Australia.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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%.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. But, over time, I noticed that the productivity losses that result from working too many extra hours start taking a bigger toll faster than most software managers realize. In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer bugs when well-rested.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here’s how we got here, what it’s going to cost us, and where we’ll end up. Car companies argued that talking safety would scare off customers, or that the added cost of safety features would put them in a competitive price disadvantage. These depended on the invention of low-cost, automotive-grade computers and sensors.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. The goals of a venture capitalist are to maximize the return on investments that pan out and minimize the costs of investments that will not. The software I sell has made up less than 5% of total revenue in the past 12 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We had no point of sales system, we were literally taking IOUs in a cigar box from people for stuff like that because there was no electricity to actually run a cash register and we didn't have mobile registers back then in 2005. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. When you account for competition for talent, the difficulty of retention, the cost of living and the difficulty of rising above the noise – there are many advantages of staying put. The ingredients are all here. No Dave S. =

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 24, 2015

A study in the Harvard Business Review noted that increasing customer retention by 5% can generate a 25%-95% increase in profit. Virtual training academy Treehouse teaches beginners coding, app development, and business skills. Due to the software’s complexity, Autodesk turned to gamification to create captivating tutorials.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve been searching for the perfect business for you, you’ve probably considered many factors such as time commitment, initial startup costs, and competition. I cannot imagine the costs of fresh food or how much product must be thrown out each week because it’s no longer edible. Insurance products are not perishable.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. If something caught my eye, I’d immediately send a message to them, or do a little due diligence to see what the website was about. DOING DUE DILIGENCE.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g. Original research.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Our startup made software for making online stores. We knew that ifonline shopping ever took off, these sites would have to be generatedby software, so we wrote some. Slowness in Launching Companies of all sizes have a hard time getting software done. Itsintrinsic to the medium; software is always 85% done.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Probably, cause we talk a lot about the roots of the Valley and the “Silicon&# culture ; and I often times find myself quouting the article that I stumbled upon when first moved to the Valley in 2005: “How Silicon Valley Came to Be&# [link] The history of the Valley ab ovo. Basically, everything you are talking about in your post.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

A 354 percent increase in abuse-related issues like spamming, followed by a 245 percent increase in legal costs dealing people trying to game the system.&# About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. at 10:09 am I think support and other ancillary costs are key here.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets. Using and testing such a jumble of inter dependant code / css/ hardware / browser is death by 1000 cuts.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. By 2005, it became clear that more people were reading GigaOm than they were reading my then employer, Business 2.0.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 26, 2015

It’s much easier to sell a standalone product like a WordPress plugin or a Magento add-on – they’re relatively inexpensive and the customers “owns” them forever, so they don’t have to worry about mounting costs over time or “throwing money away” on something they can’t keep.

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