Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

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Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 118

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

Yahoo 59

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 59

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

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Entrepreneur Yahoo IBM IBM 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

Yahoo 118

Yahoo IBM IBM Startup 118

Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2018

He’s one of the founding members of AI Global , an initiative with the goal of promoting responsible development and deployment of A.I. But he’s also aware that the technology, if not used carefully, could end up hurting society. technologies. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

Startup 88

Startup Yahoo IBM IBM 88

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2014

We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. If your sales teams think that they can throw in some extra features that you’ll build to win the big contract they will. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price.

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Sales Help Startup Pricing 382

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. Not IBM, HP, Accenture, Cisco, Salesforce.com or anybody else. Amazon changed our industry. This is mind boggling. That little online book company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

We have 12 developers and they have 3. Sales people will often sell future development work. If your sales teams think that they can throw in some extra features that you’ll build to win the big contract they will. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. “Sure, they can sell at 50% of our price.

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Sales Startup Pricing Customer 316

Frank Addante

JULY 10, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Advertising 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

There were the existing large consulting firms like IBM, CSC, Cap Gemini, PwC and Deloitte Consulting as well as the upstarts like Scient, Viant, Razorfish, Diamond Consulting and a host of others. During the down market they were able to double down on recruiting, sales, outsourcing, new market entries and marketing (yes, with Tiger ads ).

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Technical Review Marketing IP Outsource Development 302

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Has nothing changed since the early days of IBM? Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. This doesn’t make sense.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2011

By Ernst Gemassmer Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble and others derive more than half of their revenues from international activities. Under no circumstances should you put your partner under pressure to sign a contract before your departure date. International requires capital.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer Most of us have read that Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble and others derive more than half of their revenues from international activities. Under no circumstances should you put your partner under pressure to sign a contract before your departure date. International requires capital.

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Offshore Startup Patents Outsource Development 48