Anthony Amicangioli, founder and CEO of Hyannis Port Research (HPR), was born into a crucible.

Amicangioli’s first startup experience happened just about two decades ago, at the turn of the century. He was the founder of Zetari, a startup that specialized in building equipment cloud computing before cloud computing was the staple of the software world it is today.

Officially started in 1999, Zetari managed to raise $3.4 million in financing. The team had a successful working product. They demonstrated it at Interop in Las Vegas to great fanfare.

Then, the dot-com bubble burst.