Tag: Brian Moran

Jul 27 2009

How boom went bust at the click of a mouse

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, SaaS, Vendors
27 July 2009

I’ve chronicled the slide of BuildOnline in a number of blog posts over the past four years (notably Investing in a dot.com/SaaS business: a history), and the losses suffered by the early BO investors have clearly been shared by numerous other Ireland-based start-ups, as this Irish Independent article makes clear. Writer Roisin Burke suggests BO’s …

Brian Moran, BuildOnline, Citadon, Delta Partners, dot.com, Goldman Sachs, Irish Independent, Roisin Burke, SaaS

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2009/07/how-boom-went-bust-at-the-click-of-a-mouse/

Mar 09 2008

Investing in a dot.com/SaaS business: a history

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
9 March 2008

In the late 1990s and into the first year or so of the 21st century, the dot.com boom say billions invested in new online ventures across great swathes of industry and commerce. The global architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry was no different. Millions were pumped into new start-ups by venture capitalists, business angels and …