Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you haven’t followed this blog in the past, I’m a guy who launched several web startup/product ideas, acquired several more, had many failures and enough successes that I was able to shut down my consulting firm back in 2008. There are literally over a billion rows in the database and no one had touched it since 2008.

Acquisition 63

Acquisition Software Review Fresno Algorithm 63

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2015

Does it support your preferred database server (MySQL, SQL Server 2008 R2 / 2012, etc.)? o Efficient support of a database server is required so that you can create / manage database from panel along with performing your own backups & restoring databases.

Hosting 100

Hosting Web Database SQL 100

Altgate

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Our experience shows that meaningfully appropriate peer groups in the 10 to 30 range are possible for almost all of the tech and life science companies in our database. The trick in selecting the best peer cohort is to be specific on as many dimensions as possible, but not so specific that the peer group is too small.

Part-Time VPE 39

Part-Time VPE Startup Salary Equity 39

VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

First, the overall trends, which show both a steady increase of returns post the 2000 bubble and show the specific increases post 9/11 and post the 2008 market crash. Here’s a bit more detail on investments made the year before each of these downturns and the year after the downturn. Obviously, better to invest after.

Valuation 118

Valuation Portfolio Early Stage Finance 118

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. The Angel Capital Education Foundation has three hundred American angel groups in its database, and they all come in many forms. Investments commonly run around $600,000.

Angel Groups 40

Angel Groups Angel Investor Software Review Accredited Investor 40

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

Software Review 48

Software Review Cloud Technical Review Sales Cycle 48

Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

He then grew Application Servers into the most important new category in enterprise infrastructure software since the Relational Database. Impatient and shortsighted shareholders forced Alfred to sell BEA to Oracle in January of 2008 for $8.5B. Alfred’s tiny, expensive acquisition became the company and the company became great.

Acquisition 74

Acquisition Cloud Architecture Revenue 74

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

1, 2008. … (and) the economy tanked right as soon as I started. I think there were 68 companies at one point in the database buyer’s guide. He got his start at Kozmo , a now-defunct startup that offered free one-hour delivery of DVDs, food and other goods, then went on to manage American Express’ $50 million Innovation Fund.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Channel 120

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. venture investments since 1987. Raising the firm’s initial $165 million was a three-year overnight success,” Coats says.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2015

Editor’s note: We recently published original research on the startup activity of Harvard Business School classes between 2008 and 2014. We realized you could put some data to it, so we looked at the Harvard database of HBS alumni who self-identified as founders and cross-referenced that with CrunchBase. Why did you do this report?

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Boston Seed Stage Founder 120

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Competitors: OneRiot , Topsy , Crowdeye , Twitter Summize.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Do you have a bug database? Please leave feedback!) For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SBA’s database lets you search for licensing requirements by state and business type. As we pointed out , Reports have shown a consistent increase in crowdfunded investments since the great recession in 2008. You can also find state-specific tax obligations on the same site.

Angel Investor 85

Angel Investor Small Business Business Plan Intellectual Property 85

www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

This keeps us from having to hit our database too much. released RailsConf 2008 Recap ► May (9) See you at Railsconf 2008 random_data v1.3.0 This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

Lean 41

Lean Baltimore Ruby Maryland 41

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

Here are a few examples of new uses for old tactics: Use variable data printing on demand printing to create highly personalized direct mail pieces with unique images, stories and calls to action based on your customer database. The technology is there to do this in small batches with hundreds of variations.

Small Business 71

Small Business Lead Generation Social Media Advertising 71

Haystack

APRIL 27, 2018

At a minimum, getting to the Series A derisks (perhaps temporarily) a seed investment in a world where the shapes of investment outcomes can take a decade or more (consider, Uber is now a decade old and DocuSign, which just went public, was started in 2008).

Naming 60

Naming Venture Capital Seed Stage Cap Table 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. Developer of database software for business intelligence and data warehousing applications. -Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. TechCrunch. Tapulous had raised $1.8mm. TechCrunch.

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Tuesday, September 16, 2008. December 17, 2008 11:35 PM. December 18, 2008 9:07 AM. December 27, 2008 11:28 AM. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Brickbreaker - Mindless Amusement or Viscious Addiction. I see you too have experienced what an addiction these games can become!

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 21, 2011

Gomolo also has a good database of movies and related information that Pritam is trying to figure out how to create more traction for. I could not identify a good use case for the database utilization, but I learned that the company makes money by licensing content and providing mobile value-added service applications to carriers.

Networking 115

Networking Partner Entrepreneur Bootstrapping 115

Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The recession in 2008 was tough, too. Now I have a bunch of different databases and spreadsheets. Overcoming my own weaknesses. I’ve never had any training in the financial aspects of business, and my ignorance has been a real impediment to the growth of the firm. What does your typical day look like?

Small Business 60

Small Business Metrics Database New York 60

Software By Rob

DECEMBER 3, 2008

After about 8 hours of troubleshooting I was downloading all of the files and database to move to another host, when the DreamHost support rep suggested I try to run this site under a different shell username. December 3rd, 2008 | About this Blog Building your startup? Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

Caching 27

Caching RSS Software Review Hosting 27

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Some tips for flawless follow-up: Put the name and e-mail address of a new acquaintance in your database and program your calendar to remind you in a month’s time to drop the person another e-mail, just to keep in touch. If you meet somebody on a plane, send them an e-mail later that day.

Social Media 46

Social Media Programming Small Business RSS 46

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, the definition of a lead database has expanded from being Name, Address, Email ID, Phone No, etc., From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. Suspects and prospects are everywhere in the vast realm of social media, watching, reading, commenting, engaging. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

Greece 116

Greece Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley 116

Up and Running

JULY 17, 2013

In 2008 with the economy a mess, her hours and income dwindling and layoffs imminent, my talented interior designer friend Gail decided the time was ripe to launch a startup company. Conventions.net : An events resource with a searchable database by industry, category or location. A Marketing Case Study: Gail’s Glasses.

Social Media 70

Social Media Media Marketing Small Business 70

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

They maintain a huge database of passive candidates, by offering to pay them when they interview. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. If you want to expand your pool of available passive candidates, give a site like NotchUp a try.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

The chosen set of patients is matched to controls from the enterprise database and a project-specific mini-database is created. Major software enhancements of release 1.4 compared to release 1.3 Major software enhancements of release 1.4 compared to release 1.3

Search 28

Search Database Open Source Boston 28

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The first is that the ThomsonOne database shows capital weighted average returns consistently beating simple average returns for vintage years 1980-2008, implying that larger funds do better than smaller funds. Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

Altgate

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Make the only requirement be that the states agree to provide detailed accounting and reporting into an open database accessible by all. Take the $800 billion dollars and distribute it to the states based on population then leave it to the states to decide what to do with their share.

Engineer 39

Engineer Washington Database Venture Capital 39

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Now let’s take a look at the current version of the same inflation-adjusted data: Total venture capital raised from 2008-2010 was just shy of $55 billion, about 0.12% of the national GDP, with the trajectory of capital raising declining in each year. The first major change was the move to relational database technology.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Database 78

Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

” The company, which analyzes Facebook profiles, combed through its database, culling information on the profiles of CEOs and founders to see what path they took to entrepreneurial success. In 2008 the average was 36. Not according to a recent white paper from Identified, tellingly entitled “Revenge of the Nerds.”

Engineer 39

Engineer Canada China Database 39

Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Second, even worse, I haven't owned an Expedition since 2008. Or worse, marketing not even asking IT for the right database, but just using one that they had had for a while, assuming it was correct. It went to a wrong or old database with the wrong offer. Two problems with that. And what is the takeaway from this?

Database 36

Database Direct Marketing Programming Email 36

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

The next step was to then search the New York State business database to see if anyone else was using these names. was born on a train from NYC to DC in 2008 when I was reading an article by Annie Prolix in Amtrak magazine about Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love.” This allowed us to knock a few more names off the list.

Naming 162

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Colombia 162

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

7mm in Series C; last round was in 2008; total $24mm raised – Investor: Bessemer (Byron Deeter)(lead); previous investor included Index Ventures, did not participate – Read more: TechCrunch , peHUB. WordStream solutions both create, generate, manage and analyze the performance of large keyword databases.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2012

In 2008 I got the wild idea to run my entire site, not just my blog, using WordPress and with each passing upgrade it seems to me that this is how every web site should be set up. The speed of my site increased dramatically and will increase again once I’m using the Synthesis framework. Amplification.

XML 70

XML Framework Caching Hosting 70

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said. Good stuff.

Software Review 167

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167