A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? make for not putting customer development before writing code. I think you meant this ?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. Why does vintage matter to you?
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. 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. Have a cushion.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Past (1985-2002). Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. It was mostly timing.
Up and Running
JULY 23, 2014
I’ve been a member of an angel investment group for more than six years now, and I’ve been involved in reviewing the possibilities (studying the possible deals, which we call “due diligence”) every year. In 2002 I provided an exit for VCs who had invested in Palo Alto Software a few years earlier.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2014
In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. After I published Avogadro Corp, I knew that I wanted to send review copies to newspapers, bloggers, and other folks in the tech industry. For my second novel, I hired someone to research Amazon’s top reviewers for me.
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