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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Siebel—Tom Siebel. Sony—Akio Morita. Sun—Scott McNeely.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Consistent hashing has the property that only a small number of entries need to be remapped when a node is added or removed.

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The Power Of Play In Business Culture

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the founder and CEO of JAM a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play since its inception as one of the largest adult recreational sports leagues in the world. Listen to creative elements wherever you get your podcasts. (00:52): That wasn't my intention in 1996.

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How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch

Software By Rob

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Jeremy (co-owner of DotNetInvoice) is doing some final testing on our demo server and runs into a problem.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. The founders have started companies before. So how do Israeli ventures scale up?

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