App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.  In They pronounced “The End of Software.” We had all worked in the software industry for a decade and saw Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely I

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then).  When I first met the team in San Diego they had only been working on their software for 5 months.  I This is the final part of my series on Entrepreneurial DNA that was originally published on  VentureHacks .  OK, OK, it’s not really my final part.

Andrew: Yeah it was crazy, I actually enjoyed it when it was a software company. I had done a lot of search technology in a previous job that was called Architect's Software, so we would create search technology for websites and for companies. I would say the one thing that most impacted me was having built software for so long was being in an environment where you could observe people using your product. Early in his career, Craig Donato worked for Excite, a pioneering search engine. When I asked him, "Why do you think Excite didn’t beat Yahoo?"