Comments on: Welcome Steve Bayle! http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2004/07/welcome-steve-bayle.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Jilk http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2004/07/welcome-steve-bayle.html/comment-page-1#comment-217 Dave Jilk Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:33:46 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=94#comment-217 Brad, have you forgotten that we were GOING to call it "Paradigm Software" until your dad stepped in and said you should retain the old name, ostensibly because you already had customers/vendors, but more likely so you could haggle my percentage down? And the "paradigm" was "semi-custom software," which later would have been called "middleware" and is now packaged customizable applications like CRM & ERP. Unfortunately we hadn't the first clue how to actually do this. Brad, have you forgotten that we were GOING to call it “Paradigm Software” until your dad stepped in and said you should retain the old name, ostensibly because you already had customers/vendors, but more likely so you could haggle my percentage down?

And the “paradigm” was “semi-custom software,” which later would have been called “middleware” and is now packaged customizable applications like CRM & ERP. Unfortunately we hadn’t the first clue how to actually do this.

]]> By: Steve Bayle http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2004/07/welcome-steve-bayle.html/comment-page-1#comment-216 Steve Bayle Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:08:03 +0000 http://www.feld.com/wp/?p=94#comment-216 Brad mentions Mainspring and there is a fun story about Brad I'd like to relate. Paul Maeder of Highland Capital was an investor in my first company, Course Technology, which was sold to the Thomson Corporation. So when I started Mainspring I went to Paul for an investment. After pitching Paul he said he was interested, but that he wanted to bring in an expert on enterprise IT to talk to me as part of his due diligence. (The original mission of Mainspring was to help IT professionals make the transition from their current world to the Internet world of TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, etc.) And who did that expert turn out to be but Brad Feld! I still remember Brad sitting there in front of his notebook PC firing questions at me only a little faster than Nolan Ryan's pitches. But at the same time I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park I was smiling inside, because unbeknownst to Paul, Brad and I knew each other already. The guys at Netgenesis had introduced us some time before. But that didn't stop Brad from bringing the heat and throwing a few high hard ones! It was fun, and Paul Maeder did make the investment. Brad mentions Mainspring and there is a fun story about Brad I’d like to relate. Paul Maeder of Highland Capital was an investor in my first company, Course Technology, which was sold to the Thomson Corporation. So when I started Mainspring I went to Paul for an investment. After pitching Paul he said he was interested, but that he wanted to bring in an expert on enterprise IT to talk to me as part of his due diligence. (The original mission of Mainspring was to help IT professionals make the transition from their current world to the Internet world of TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, etc.) And who did that expert turn out to be but Brad Feld! I still remember Brad sitting there in front of his notebook PC firing questions at me only a little faster than Nolan Ryan’s pitches. But at the same time I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park I was smiling inside, because unbeknownst to Paul, Brad and I knew each other already. The guys at Netgenesis had introduced us some time before. But that didn’t stop Brad from bringing the heat and throwing a few high hard ones! It was fun, and Paul Maeder did make the investment.

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