Comments on: How Long Does it Take to Build a Technology Empire?

By: Christian Chabot

Christian Chabot — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:36:06 +0000

Jeff – Yes there is another post of it below which includes the “Download” link in the lower right corner. That will let you open the document in Tableau Public (a free edition of Tableau) which has all the data as well as the visualization. Enjoy.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery/taleof100

By: Jeff Levy

Jeff Levy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:57:29 +0000

Very cool analysis. Just curious – do you have the workbook/data to share? It might be interesting to look at indexing this to the amount and timing of their financing. I’m wondering how this variable – the ease of raising successive rounds of funding – influenced their growth rate.

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By: Michael Ewens

Michael Ewens — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:22:47 +0000

Here it is:

http://michaelewens.com/research/

I don’t frequent this blog, so I forgot to post it.

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:58:46 +0000

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By: Varun Arora

Varun Arora — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:01:15 +0000

Michael Ewens, is your paper done yet? September’s come and gone… :-)

- Varun.

By: Christian Chabot

Christian Chabot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:15:14 +0000

To the commentators asking if the study is obviated by the exclusion of Google and Yahoo which are considered media companies not software companies…well the answer is “No, it is not obviated.” This is a study of the software industry, one of the most important technology sectors in our economy and one that is well defined by major stock indices and industry analysts. Companies in that specific industry primarily make money by selling access to s0ftware, not advertising. So Salesforce is included but Google is not. So for the purpose of studying the software industry and how it works, the sample above is a very good one indeed (the top 100). Of course a fun follow on study would be to examine media companies too.

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By: Businesses take time to scale « Rage on Omnipotent

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