Complex sentence: The company had an inauspicious launch in the middle of the dot-com bust, and at the time the original website ran from a suburban lounge room, created by Ashby with bootleg web software.
Split into simpler sentences: The company had an inauspicious launch in the middle of the dot-com bust. At the time the original website ran from a suburban lounge room, created by Ashby with bootleg web software.