Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

You can set up records as project management elements like tasks, contacts, projects, pipelines, and goals, and then assign priorities, statuses, deadlines, tags, and assignees. And for teams neck-deep in product development, Airtable has rolled out ProductCentral. This is their all-in-one command center for product teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. More red tape.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Because they wouldn’t have the enormous amounts of profits that they’ve been able to sink back into research & development. A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. And then I saw many people developing Twitter spam filters.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Workers in middle & low-income America can’t get jobs while Silicon Valley can’t get enough high-quality developers. I was talking with adults about the differences between PC-DOS and MS-DOS about Word vs. WordPerfect about Harvard Graphics and about PeachTree accounting software. Tags: Non Tech. By a teacher.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. My understanding is that OpenCandy is a software download where the service gets to better understand you as a consumer. Read more: PEHub.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meez , a company creating professional recipe software and a culinary operating system, brought in its first-ever funding round of $6.5 million to continue developing its tools to help chefs manage their recipes. Meez software. Josh Sharkey, CEO of Meez. Image Credits: Evan Sung. Image Credits: Meez.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. How could a company like ours be so callous as not to support their software (even one more than 4 years out of date)?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

One of the winners is GrowthSpace, founded by Omer Glass, which leverages algorithms to match individual employees and groups of employees with experts for development sprints. ” GrowthSpace combines a software-as-a-service platform with a marketplace of experts — providers of mentoring, coaching, training and workshops.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Our no-code AI allows anyone to build their own applications, thus enabling these users to get close to their vision without having to wait for AI experts or developer teams to help them.” Our solutions are delivered in the form of a Software Development Kit (SDK), which runs on-premise, completely locally on clients’ systems.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. OneStream Software. In 2020, OneStream Software was named a Leader in the 2020 IDC MarketScape for Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Software.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today that it has raised $640 million in Series E funding to expand its products, which combine computer vision and cloud-based software to help brick-and-mortar stores manage their inventory, merchandising and operations.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The goal is to gather a skill set around that table that reflects the next level of maturity of the business, and to regularly refresh it as the business scales up and needs a different skill set for each stage of its development. Startup directors’ value should be recognised. 0.75% for directors and 1-2% for the chair.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Most patents are filed for new products, machines, electronics, compositions, processes, and software. The first New Zealand registered design for an animal ear tag was filed in 1952 and since then over 100 different ear tag designs have been protected. A design registration lasts 15 years in New Zealand.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

New York State to hand out 800+ ElliQ robots to elderly Kim Kardashian gives Beyond Meat a bounce Taranis gives farmers a down-to-earth view of crops from above Israel plans to invest $180M to develop civilian space tech Arcadia acquires world’s largest utility data provider, raises $200M Introductions More than 4,200 high-tech jobs.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

People would come and ask questions, and they would put topics on them, and other people would sign up to answer questions, and they would tell us about what they knew about by tagging themselves with these topics, and we would try to route the questions to the people who knew about the particular topic. And it was all manual.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2022

Software product development needs considerable time and resources for testing, which requires complex workflows built and maintained by expensive DevOps engineers. You don’t have to be an engineer to use its proprietary drag-and-drop interface which can slash the time to release software by over 50% and significantly cut costs.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file. Always working on something entrepreneurial, he had a team of developers at the ready to execute on new projects. This project, however, he was a bit skeptical about.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The features in Flickr seeded the consumer web gene pool for the following 7 or 8 years--tagging, favoriting, commenting, permalinks direct to content, newsfeeds, social consumption of media, sharing and embedding. Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Today, “it’s transforming entire categories of enterprise software,” says Navin Chaddha, managing director at VC firm Mayfield. With a credit line, early-stage companies can ramp up hiring and product development, using additional resources to validate ideas in the marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s. Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart web developers. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. .&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. He looked stunned.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. Tags: Start-up Advice. Rumored to be appox.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. Tags: SoCal Stuff. And of course we had, TheMan. Watch this space.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

6PM: Job Hunting for Software Product Managers in 2010. Code Camps are "grass roots" mini application platform developer conferences, free of charge to attendees and open to presenters of all stripes and experience. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Tuesday, March 2nd. RSVP: [link]. Back to demos.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

often gets vilified in the pursuit of a good developer, but think about things from the perspective of your average hardcore developer ninja. Someone offers you a secure job with lots of responsibility to build some piece of trading software that billions of dollars will run on and thousands of people will use.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. At my first company, which was based in London, we decided to set up a development facility in India. He also had experience in setting up tech development centers in India.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

VP of Business Development, DNAnexus - Palo Alto, California In the not too distant future, everything will be determined by your DNA--your job, what retro 50's decor you'll buy, how tightly you'll slick back your hair, whether or not you can date Uma Thurman. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Kdan Mobile , a company that provides a wide range of cloud-based software, including AI-based tech for organizing documents, has raised a $16 million Series B. Kdan Mobile also began offering a set of APIs and SDKs so internal developers at large enterprises can integrate and customize its technology. “We Image Credits: Kdan Mobile.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. People who are naturally talented still differentiate themselves by having put in the effort in the areas that are important for success.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

If you keep all your relationships in one place, then you’ll need to use tags or another identifier to isolate the folks that really matter to you. There’s a lot of value in pulling in all of our correspondents into a CRM, but only if most of them are tagged as “acquaintances” so they don’t make the database unwieldy. He recommended:

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