This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

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.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. At 2 am, finally done, I realized I was locked in without a key or code to get out. After coding all of the answers, I saw that everything came down to feeling connected emotionally to your company. What is the Best Practice Institute?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2016

The Harvard Business Review does an excellent job of this. Digital advertising is fundamentally broken, and until something changes, people are going to continue using ad-blocking software. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001. A few things, it turns out. The Subscription Model.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. A shorter version of this article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. A shorter version of this article previously appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2013

Folders are mislabeled and forgotten when creating new folder structures.Document management software allows you to create templates for consistent creation of file folders for each of your clients so that the appropriate folders, and ultimately the appropriate files can be found. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. QuickBooks).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2015

Even though we come from the software sector, we learned about developing a design language to unify our product design efforts. Farbood Nivi is CEO of Learnist , which allows individuals to read content, review how-to guides, and watch educational videos on virtually any subject.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Before starting an online casino take time to study the online software providers that exist. Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. The first move involves identifying a software provider. Setup a white label!

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

On Bplans and in business planning software like LivePlan, our free sample business plans are all real business plans written by real people. That might have been fine in 2001, but if you were opening a kennel in the state of Oregon today, you’d get in big trouble with those numbers, since you’d be planning to pay your staff $.50

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. to 25% (national rate estimated at 32% by Federal Reserve): City consultant: 1 in 5 local jobs lost due to the coronavirus We closed things in March because a rapidly spreading and deadly virus was going to overwhelm our hospitals. TSA had two functions.

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Not too long ago, Noah Parsons, the COO of Palo Alto Software, wrote about a restaurant business that had failed. Even though Palo Alto Software (PAS) shared the same building with them, the restaurant employees made no attempt to build any sort of rapport with the company. In fact, it’s a necessity.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO. When to Use a Consulting CTO Time is of the essence in launching a startup company. Beware, however!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). We told the horror story of the company that originally owned the URL groupon.com and lost it due to not having a trademark. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. I eventually needed more money.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

of internal control weaknesses are caused by a lack of management review, also conducive to fraud and information mismanagement. In June 2015, Forbes contributor, Tom Taulli, described eFileCabinet document management software as a technology that “manages the lifecycle of a company’s files,” and with an emphasis on security and compliance.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Introduction. Definitions. Legibility vs. readability.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. You don’t need to buy hardware – there’s Amazon AWS.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Business of Software. Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. For small independent software vendors (ISVs), my rule is: Dont fill a position until after the need for that position is painfully clear. About Eric.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. This slight misspelling of the word “code” seemed like the perfect combination of abstraction and substance. When my wife was pregnant with our son, she had early scans due to a previous late loss. The name and domain were born then.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. As you can see, not all of these multiples are comparable as some of the bubble era multiples were NM—not meaningful—due to negative earnings. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. Much better.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? The highlight of the day was that I finally had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Stack Overflow. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! From, you know, when I first stood up, my very first e-commerce site literally was in 2001 , I was Eloqua or Eloqua's beta client and constant contacts beta client. Like this show? That's right. It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Pandemic hits.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. There are metrics to review.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). and negative?—?voice

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Large corporations are generally not known for being innovative and even less for creating new jobs after acquiring other companies (merger “synergy” is code for firing people).

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. You can also do it, As Joanna Wiebe suggested, by scouring authentic customer reviews. In her KISSMetrics article , she explained how she pulled direct quotes from app reviews, like: “It was like having my own personal coach while I ran.”. “I

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

CEM/CXM: SOFTWARE OR STRATEGY. He is right, and to his credit Paul saw the importance of customer experience and wrote about this in 2001. Customer generated content is common in online shopping experiences, ratings and reviews. First let us take a look at this thing called CXM really is. This is customer experience gone wrong.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

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. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )? Cleaning businesses are incredibly appealing due to their low cost of entry—it essentially comes down to the cost of cleaning materials alone. Driving for Uber. If you have the above, starting a business as an Uber driver can be wildly lucrative.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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