This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it. Social Media Software. Facebook Pages.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The Exit Problem.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software. For example, the 1998 IPO class had average revenue of $120 million (and net losses of $65 million to boot). Average consumer bandwidth increased 100 fold due to cable modems, DSL, and high-speed wireless networks.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. another account.

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