2002 Software Review Technical Review 
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
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. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.
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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?
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. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.
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. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. It was mostly timing. The Present Era.
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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