Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred a candidate who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. It makes sense to assume that highly talented people will be in demand, and will want new challenges, so expectations of long-term job commitments are not realistic. Take chances on unconventional talent.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

This is important because the customers they serve (the red line) demand a product that meets their complex requirements. billion in recurring run-rate revenue and growing while Siebel is sold to Oracle for a mere $5.8 The take aways for me are: The incumbent eventually realizes what is happening to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2016

Larry Ellison (Oracle) preferred candidates who had accomplished something genuinely difficult over one with formal qualifications. It makes sense to assume that highly talented people will be in demand, and will want new challenges, so expectations of long-term job commitments are not realistic. Take chances on unconventional talent.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

We're looking at it as an alternative to Taleo, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone On Demand, and so on. As you know, SuccessFactors was bought by SAP, Taleo was bought by Oracle, and the only independent companies left are Cornerstone OnDemand and Workday. It's also positioned to compete in the commercial sector.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2013

Certainly there are many examples of great companies led by engineers, including Microsoft with Bill Gates, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and Google with Larry Page. With the economy on the rebound, we need more entrepreneurs to satisfy new demands and solve new problems. Hence the pressure to deliver. Marty Zwilling.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

He thinks demand for IPOs (from buyers) remains high while supply is low because Sarbanes Oxley amongst other things has made less CEOs want to go public. Buyers aren’t oblivious to the fact that funds need to sell older portfolio companies and an oversupply relative to demand means that prices should still be challenged going forward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Certainly there are many examples of great companies led by engineers, including Microsoft with Bill Gates, Oracle with Larry Ellison, and Google with Larry Page. With the economy on the rebound, we need more entrepreneurs to satisfy new demands and solve new problems. Hence the pressure to deliver. Marty Zwilling.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

EnvoyNow is innovating in the on-demand food delivery space, targeting the underserved college market. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Started at Oracle as one of its first employees. Utility: Envoy Now. The platform works across messengers, starting with the ubiquitous messenger that exists in 3.2Bn devices: SMS.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

And after Siebel’s death the Salesforce rallying cry has extended to Oracle and Microsoft. Or that we’ve invested in a company where there is no market demand. Siebel was something you installed: it was expensive, hard to implement, bloated, complex and hard to manage. Software, software, software. Them vs. Us.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

An example might be Demand Media, which as a ton of corporate portals and content sites, and would be an ideal target to target customers in global markets. I started at Oracle many years ago in the valley, and have worked in various technical and business related roles as a consultant, project manager, and business development manager.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. UnVCs do not demand that entrepreneurs pursue such winner-take-all strategies. When we launched GoToMyPC in 2001, we were forced to purchase hundreds of servers and pay expensive hosting fees to third-party datacenters.

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APRIL 3, 2010

We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software. They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. If you’re doing well you’ll have demand.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

M&A has shown some spectacular results including Zappos to Amazon for $928million , Sun to Oracle for $7.4 There is a lot of pent-up demand. There have been a number of high profile tech IPO s in the recent months including companies such as OpenTable and more recently LogMeIn. billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. UnVCs do not demand that entrepreneurs pursue such winner-take-all strategies. When we launched GoToMyPC in 2001, we were forced to purchase hundreds of servers and pay expensive hosting fees to third-party datacenters.

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MAY 5, 2011

on to their next companies and that produced Demand Media, a public company who even with a slight recent reduction in share price is still trading at $1.3 LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and thats driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. Earlier this year, Mr. Rappaport sold a beach cottage in Malibu to a Facebook executive for $6.8 clients, brokers say.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet.

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