Remove 2009 Remove Competition Remove LAMP Remove Product
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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Until we weren’t.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. These are very different.