YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 7, 2019
In 2006, together with Hiten Shah, Neil founded Crazy Egg, a heatmap platform for websites to use to increase their conversion rates. Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. NP Digital receives consistently positive reviews from its customers.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 That died with waterfall software development. Ditto for enterprise software companies. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Each quarter you should review your model. Do so at your peril.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
There were startups and a software industry but barely. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). It was 1991.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 13, 2022
Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction. The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers.
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 16, 2012
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is interesting to note that this model has been invented in Europe (Blablacar started in 2006) and while there have been some similar and more recent initiatives in the US (e.g.,
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Is that when it became big?
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