IPO, Software, Software Development and Technology

Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies. For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company.

Software

Software Technology Agile SCRUM

The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

APRIL 4, 2018

Look at the Dropbox IPO which priced above its initial value and came out white hot at the end of one of the worst weeks in stock market performance. Despite that, it’s also hard to ignore the following facts: Enormous spend and growth for public cloud and app infrastructure, middleware and developer software of $50b (Gartner, Pivotal S-1).

Cloud

Cloud Agile Architecture Azure

Twitter Link Roundup #87 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Interesting perspective on LinkedIn’s IPO – arguing that the IPO price was reasonable – [link]. And here’s another side – suggesting that LinkedIn shareholders might have been scammed in the IPO – [link]. Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. – [link].

Social Media

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. My first IPO at Convergent.

Video

Video Silicon Valley RSS California

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

Twitter Link Roundup #158 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Peter Thiel on The Future of Legal Technology – [link]. Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do | Fortune Tech – [link]. Don’t hire them | Pando Daily – [link]. Webbmedia Group 2013 Tech Trends – [link].

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

“Despite the industry’s lackluster returns in recent years, there’s still lots of interest in funds that have good track records or are well-situated to take advantage of broad consumer technology trends,” said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering

Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. 20 Useful Tools, Stencils and GUI Kits for Android Developers – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The ideal product manager – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. I know many people who think that software works like magic, but to me it actually was magic.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." How long does the software sit un-deployed? Software is generally always getting better or getting worse. How fast do they iterate? Does it require weeks of QA?

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

The “Pre” Startup is adding air to the bubble

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

amazing shining examples of success and IPOs, even though they a 1 in a thousand. many more people are learning software development. funding is more prevalent than ever for early early (read “ideas”) stage companies. the barriers are now very low for actually forming a business, as is the cost. millionaires.

Angel Investor

Angel Investor Startup IPO Software Developers

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software. Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO).

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Im going to be speaking on June 3rd at an event sponsored by the Technology Entrepreneurs Exchange (TeXchange), "the premier networking organization in Texas for business executives and entrepreneurs to meet, exchange ideas and share experiences." It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

Lean

Lean Austin San Francisco Continuous Deployment

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? 12:51] Right up to IPO at which point you quit, which I think some people would actually say, you made it now, why are you quitting? He lives in Chicago with his wife, daughter, dog, and bike.

Founder

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup

TangoSource

www.tangosource.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Would they be happy with a lifestyle business, an IPO, or something in between? As co-founder and CEO of TangoSource, Eric is passionate about helping people express themselves through technology. Motivation -Do they want money? To serve a particular audience? To solve a problem they’ve been enduring? s respective disciplines?

Cofounder

Cofounder Founder SEO LLC

Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? " There are definitely cases where the lead developer grows into a CTO.

CTO Hire

CTO Hire Technical Review Developer Software Review

Twitter Link Roundup #132 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2012

The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO – [link]. Facebook IPO, and How to Build a Social Network for $389 – [link]. Q1 saw the most tech IPOs in four years, but funding amounts are down – [link]. Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think ! – [link].

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Thats nonsense.

Startup

Startup Cofounder Software Stock

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup

The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

We might be a ways away from the reality of a Chief Engineer or Product Director role commonly in software development, but ultimately it's going to be a matter of getting the culture right so that people stick around long enough to develop not only the tactical skills, but also the honed instincts and senses.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Does this sound familiar?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Part-Time VPE San Francisco

Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. They might be experienced people who want to work on a new technology but hate interviewing.

Sweat Equity

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment

Twitter Link Roundup #138 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2012

In the red: 73% of tech IPOs aren’t profitable when they debut – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Very cool site showing the evolution of the Web and various technologies – [link]. – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

Twitter Link Roundup #110 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. SaaS CEOs: Measure Customer Engagement – [link]. 26 Promising Social Media Stats for Small Businesses – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design CTO Hire

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

To illustrate the extent to which a company’s name is largely irrelevant to its ultimate success, let’s examine the genesis of six successful technology companies’ names. eBay – Derived from Founder Pierre Omidyar’s consulting company, Echo Bay Technology Group. The company’s logo was a three dimensional bouncing ball.

Naming

Naming Technical Review Product Product Name

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. After leaving Juno, he founded his own software company, Fog Creek Software. Defensibility in Software.

Software Review

Software Review Software St. Louis API

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. And I’ve been lucky enough to watch innovation happen not only in hardware and software but in Life Sciences – in Therapeutics, Medical Devices, Diagnostics and now Digital Health. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

Restful

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose

Twitter Link Roundup #131 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2012

What Does Facebook’s $100 Billion IPO Mean for You? The Facebook IPO: A Note to Mark Zuckerberg; or, With “Friends” Like Morgan Stanley, Who Needs Enemies? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. More Ads – [link]. – [link].

Social Media

Social Media Small Business Design Media

StartUpRoar

Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

The Enterprise Strikes Back

Trending Sources

Twitter Link Roundup #87 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Twitter Link Roundup #158 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

Twitter Link Roundup #115 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Lessons Learned: About the author

On deployment

Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

The “Pre” Startup is adding air to the bubble

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans

TangoSource

Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

Twitter Link Roundup #132 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

How to Start a Startup

30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

The Steve Jobs method

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Building a sweat equity team

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Twitter Link Roundup #138 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Twitter Link Roundup #110 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Twitter Link Roundup #131 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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