Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. So now our collective companies are worth less. How’s that advice holding up?

Venture Capital 466

Venture Capital Startup Marketing Pricing 466

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. That makes both of these amazing companies great channels for startups. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. Has working on a Facebook app been different for you, given your roots in Flash? Mark Sylvester: It has been different.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203