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2011

Startup Lessons Learned

I'm excited for 2011, and I want to share some of my plans for the coming year. Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. Thank you, 2010. But we still have a long way to go.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Making Good Decisions Still Means You're Sometimes Wrong.

Agile VC

December 13, 2011. My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. .” In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

This article first appeared on the Harvard Business Review blog. In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Google released Chromebook in October 2011, offering a faster and easier way to access the Internet. Turns out people want their laptops to do basic things like run games, Photoshop, or work software. pound paperweight,” said the New York Times’ David Pogue in a technology review. Google Chromebook. Samsung Galaxy Gear.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

The Torch program created Innovation Clusters by creating national Science and Technology Industrial Parks (STIPs), Software Parks, and Productivity Promotion Centers. In addition to the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks, the Torch program also set up an additional 32 Torch Program Software Parks. Venture Guiding Fund.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10). ► 2011. (2). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund.