Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. To date, Salesforce has been focused on small tuck-in technology acquisitions, so it is an interesting move for them. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Just some food for thought as you build your investment portfolio. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Today, United did not: David stroke back at Goliath using the power of internet technologies. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

Eric is one of the up-and-coming stars in the technology industry, and we are very excited he is becoming our partner. Eric’s keen intellect, his experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, his depth in infrastructure and enterprise software, and his infectious optimism about technology make him an ideal Benchmark partner.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. at 6:31 PM.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. XSITE 2012: The Xconomy Summit on Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship. Fred Hutch Spinoff Blaze Bioscience Pulls in $5M For ‘Tumor Paint’.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. This supplement to our BVP VII fund will ensure that we can take advantage of future investment opportunities and that the companies within the Bessemer portfolio have continued access to capital."

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. (1). Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Happy New Year to you, Cracking-the-code reader! You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. technologies are starting to change the way companies market their products. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software as a Service (SaaS), the most mature of these segments, is comprised of end user applications like Salesforce.com. Forget everything you learned about software channels.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 5, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, January 05, 2007. Happy New Year 2007! Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It includes NetSuite, SuccessFactors, Vocus, SalesForce, Taleo, DemandTec, LivePerson, Constant Contact, Concur, Ultimate Software, Salary.com, Omniture and Kenexa. Labels: SaaS , software.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 10K/MMR is very very large for most SaaS players and Netli is unique in that it is at a very low level of the software stack. link] Nirvaha Sales Compensation Software. Portfolio. (3).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I guessed the measuring spoon was not used diligently. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 30, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, March 30, 2007. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2007. (10).

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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. Friday, March 23, 2007. 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.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 7, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. ► 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 18, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars. ▼ 2007. (10).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The theme was "the future of software". He is a great speaker and I enjoyed the speech, but after 40mn, I was still waiting to hear about the future of software.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. Labels: internet , Portfolio. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. It is just four-years old?—?for

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. Why Every Designer Should Have a Portfolio – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link].

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

has been in recession since December of 2007. No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. Innovation Clusters.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

This is Sabrina Parsons, the CEO of Palo Alto Software. I want you to be really realistic about your personal financial portfolio and how you spend money before you make the decision to start a business. You also need to look at whether or not you need to update your technology skills prior to you leaving your corporate job.

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