InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. I have always worked on early stage products. Some of the products I’ve helped validate and launch include GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting and AppFolio.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, as Xconomy noted last year , there also were precious few examples of mobile games or ads that became a runaway success because of the way they used augmented technology. Prior to the acquisition, we focused primarily on computer vision. JW: Now that we’re at PTC, the mission … Next Page » Reprints | Share:

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

We all make important, complicated decisions in our life and having accurate, objective data about our choices allow us to find and compare products that meet our needs. Hmmm, I actually don’t read other entrepreneurial books or blogs – except infoChachkie of course [Editor’s Note: Kevin is clearly full of it here!].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Sure, there are examples of Founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. With the more popular Merger & Acquisition (M&A) exit strategy, the control stays with the new entity.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Do you really think Porter’s Five Forces is going to help you figure out what feature set to launch or how to price your product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. With the more popular Merger & Acquisition (M&A) exit strategy, the control stays with the new entity.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 3, 2011

Unfortunately, there was a contingent within Expertcity, which believed that BuddyHelp should remain a free service, even after we launched DesktopStreaming (the genesis of DesktopStreaming’s terrible name is described in, Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You ).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

I also talked about Virgin Money , a product that I have used to lend friends money in the past. I know the product intimately and it rocks. Assistly’s main competitor is ZenDesk, whom I’m told also has a great product. I played with both products and had good experiences. 2.2mm in Series A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Sure, there are examples of founders who have survived and prospered, such as Bill Gates and Larry Page, but these guys are the exception, not the rule. With the more popular Merger & Acquisition (M&A) exit strategy, the control stays with the new entity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. The longer term is even more promising.

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Xconomy

JULY 1, 2016

At the gathering, Biden took verbal shots at scofflaw cancer researchers and at drug prices, while the FDA said it would take a shot at restructuring the way it evaluates oncology products. Analysts wondered if the Tesaro news would push Medivation’s acquisition price higher. It also got a pat on the back from Bill Gates.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh,

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Xconomy

AUGUST 12, 2016

Celgene paid Acetylon $100 million in 2013 for an option to buy the company outright, but the deal recently expired without an acquisition, leaving Acetylon to chart a new course. Celgene remains an Acetylon investor, however, and the two are testing drugs together in a variety of trials.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

To learn more about all the companies, be sure to visit 500 Startups’ official demo day page. Something we didn’t know, mainstay education programs have < 1% course completion. Harnessing more energy from our grid by emphasizing efficiency, not increased factory and power production.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. So the Yellow Page business was always “pay for placement.&#. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

We like this business--they've just released one of their three or four different product lines, which are coming later. With this product, publishers are much more responsive, advertisers get better results, and at the end of the day, you need much less people and get a faster return time. We're pretty excited about it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business. Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages.

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Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. It can quickly move you off course. Build a SWAT team 3. Zondigo, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Exit Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. And of course in my 700 are people like Bill Gates and Barack Obama, neither of whom follows me just yet Asymmetric works both ways.

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