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  4. About Lotus

    Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company with its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lotus is most famous for its groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, which was the first killer app in the early days of the IBM PC and which helped spread the adoption of the PC. Thanks to Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, it also developed one of the more powerful groupware systems, Lotus Notes. IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $3.5 billion, primarily to acquire Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client-server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision obsolete.

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    2. The Lean Startup Methodology – with Eric Ries

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 6 2011) Marketing

      The Lean Startup Methodology – with Eric Ries ...uccessful spreadsheet. Andrew: They made computers meaningful. Eric: They sold $54,000,000 worth of Lotus 1-2-3 in their first year of business. They went public the next year. These are 1983 dollars we’re... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Imvu   Fred Wilson   Lotus

    3. 16 Brilliant Insights From Steve Jobs Keynote Circa 1997

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jul 1 2011) Marketing

      ...ng about spreadsheets for people like me that want to model things. It’s phenomenally powerful. And Lotus couldn’t compete with themselves with 1.2.3 so they gave it up and Lighthouse copied it. 18 develop... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Oracle   Newton   Larry Ellison

    4. Five Problem Solutions to Motivate Your Startup

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Apr 25 2011) Marketing

      Five Problem Solutions to Motivate Your Startup ...c times: Automate a labor intensive process. This is the traditional realm of computers. Lotus 1-2-3 applied it to accounting spreadsheets, and Google applied it to information mining on the Int... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Henry Ford   Lotus   Paul Graham

    5. Flowtown: How It Failed Then Succeeded At Creating A Product Customers Love – with Dan Martell

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 25 2010) Marketing

      Flowtown: How It Failed Then Succeeded At Creating A Product Customers Love – with Dan Martell ...! Dan: Yeah. And you can play with that. The idea came from one of our investors, Mitch Kapor, from Lotus Notes. He does a lot of human psychology testing. And he said, “When we offered up an iTunes gift c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Sean Ellis   Eric Reis   San Francisco

    6. The Buddhist Monk Who Invested In Google – with Christine Comaford

      Explore mixergy.com (Jul 7 2010)

      The Buddhist Monk Who Invested In Google – with Christine Comaford ... Microsoft will hire you back as an engineer. And, I was a contractor the whole time. So, I went to Lotus, and I got an engineering job there. So, ultimately, then I could come back to Microsoft, this time... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Palm   IBM   Apple

    7. The Contagious Energy Of The Man Who Invested In Evite, Stubhub & Other Pioneers – with Jon Staenberg

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      The Contagious Energy Of The Man Who Invested In Evite, Stubhub & Other Pioneers – with Jon Staenberg ... are the kingpins, we at Microsoft we never felt that, we thought like God we are being attacked by Lotus and we are behind and 123 and we are perfect kicking our butts and God you know if we just get an o... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nebraska   Newsweek   San Francisco

    8. Do VCs Help In Building A Technology Platform? by Bill Gurley

      Explore The Startup Reader (Apr 30 2010)

      ...80’s, the Microsoft desktop OS was the breeding ground for such successful application companies as Lotus, Borland, Adobe, and many more. Many of these companies were very successful stand-alone public c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lotus   Microsoft   Adobe

    9. Distinguished Ventures - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    10. Disruptive Technologies - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    11. How to Negotiate Valuations - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    12. Career Advice - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    13. Helping Teams Work Together - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    14. The Past, Present and Future of Google - John Doerr (kpcb)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Feb 2 2005)

      ...yers and sponsored a series of investments including Compaq, Cypress, Intuit, Macromedia, Netscape, Lotus, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, S3, Sun Microsystems, Amazon.com, and Symantec. John was the founding ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Missouri   Macromedia

    15. Recruiting People to Sell for You - Jerry Kaplan (Winster)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Oct 1 2003) Recruiting

      ...d in May 1995 by Houghton-Mifflin. Before founding GO, Mr. Kaplan was the principal technologist at Lotus Development Corporation, where he co-authored Lotus Agenda, the first personal information management software. In 1981, he co-founded Teknowledge, a p... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lotus   Onsale , Inc.   GO Corporation

    16. Personality of a Company: Establishing Culture and Values Early On - Jerry Kaplan (Winster)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Oct 1 2003)

      ...in May 1995 by Houghton-Mifflin. Before founding GO, Mr. Kaplan was the principal technologist at Lotus Development Corporation, where he co-authored Lotus Agenda, the first personal information management software. In 1981, he co-founded Teknowledg... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lotus   Onsale , Inc.   GO Corporation

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