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Understanding How New Enterprise Software Is Licensed And Deployed

YoungUpstarts

The decision process to purchase new enterprise application software can be daunting. A critical part of the evaluation process is to clearly understand the flexibilities a software provider offers to license and deploy the solution for your use. by Wayne Wedell , President and CEO of WorkWise, LLC. Named or Concurrent Users.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. People were building.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Take software developers as an example. Coming up with an idea for a new piece of software, developing it, and testing it is expensive.

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Digital Advertising Is Broken: Three Alternatives For Businesses Looking To Monetize Their Website

YoungUpstarts

I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. First and foremost is the fact that Internet ads haven’t been relevant for a very, very long time. The Harvard Business Review does an excellent job of this. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001.

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Reading what was written and the VC age question

This is going to be BIG.

We box shadows--especially on the internet. I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution. How many times do we do that?

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I learned how to do a pipeline review with sales people without getting bullshitted to.