VC Cafe

JUNE 5, 2024

The The main takeaways are: High-tech has been central to Israel’s economic growth (53% of the export), but is at a crossroads due to global economic trends and recent challenges in Israel, including the War. The trend indicates a return to 2018 levels, reflecting the global downturn in investments.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Most likely, this will occur in the form of a hefty fine — anywhere from €10 million to 4 percent of your annual global turnover – commensurate with your specific violation. Conclusion.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Disruptive technologies are advances that transform life, business, and the global economy. In fact, McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) reports 12 technologies that will alter the business and social landscape: advanced robotics and the automation of knowledge work, to name a few. Invest in disruptive technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. Scenes from my counter-top on my last night in Dublin. I recently returned from a 5-day visit to Ireland, my first time back in 10 years and the start of what I hope will be a more regular travel schedule there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2021

With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive. Generation Z (born after 1995) is a new major spending demographic, who expects to do everything via their smartphone, and lives on YouTube videos, instead of reading instruction manuals.

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deal architect

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

When I joined Gartner in 1995, I was part of the AAS (for Administrative Application Systems) service which largely covered accounting, financial planning and hcm applications. We gradually expanded the AAS scope to also cover procurement, order management and other.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. We’ve gone global as well. Haas global footprint. Clearly, lean works globally. In fact, it works globally. Berkeley-wide.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. The team at Twelve believes that it will ultimately be able to compete with fossil fuels and will replace petrochemicals on a large scale, which will meaningfully cut global energy emissions. Thanks to Georgi Todorov, Thrive My Way ! #19- 19- Hy-Vee.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1995 ; De Lange et al., 1983 ; Burt, 1959 ; Weildon, 1995 ) but these have been soundly criticised on points of methodology. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ). 1995 , De Lange ), that shows no difference in legibility between serif and sans serif font on the web. 2001 ; Tullis et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al.,

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deal architect

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

I arrived at Gartner in 1995. My colleagues there were doing Congressional Hearings, had thrown out a number of $600 billion for enterprises to fix the Y2K bug – stuff which woke up CEOs and Boards to their technology challenges.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. 13 years later, GMR Web Team is the face of my business while Global Marketing Resources is just a legal entity that owns GMR Web Team.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit. Show me the money. So how are they making their big money?

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Below is a collection of nudges, curated from my global experiences, influenced by research and data I’ve access to. Yes, from 1995! Yes, from 1995! In-stock status. Life of current price. Direct competitor comparisons. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Social cues to the rescue. Personalization.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). In fact, according to new data from a recent j2 Global survey , Gen-Y is undergoing a significant career shift today, trending away from applying for jobs and toward launching businesses of their own. I’m accepting the challenge.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. That actually wasn’t the biggest.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A global rethinking of economic growth amid mounting environmental concerns. The downsizing of America’s workforce between 1979 and 1995, coinciding with now-familiar leaps in executive salaries and the shipping of American job overseas, began to cast doubt on the values of hard work and company loyalty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. Gen-Z members have grown up in an un-tethered world of smart-phones, tablets and WIFI, and their perspective is both multi-cultural and global.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. Probably as a function of the gold standard (global price of gold as the trading valuation mechanism) with some form of digital instant and unseen conversion from our home currency into some quantum derived from gold. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). In reality, Gen-Y is here, and they are already inheriting our businesses, so let’s figure out how to make them winners, or we will all be losers. At many companies, employee costs are the largest operational expense.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. In 1995, had it not been for the internet and the task of shortening our company name to a web address, it would never had happened. #13- References my roots in climbing and spoke to the usage occasion for the line of instant coffee. Photo Credit: Matt Segal.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2014

For those who have so quickly forgotten the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2010, one of the main reasons Boulder was so minimally impacted was the strength of the startup community – not just for employment, but for discretionary spending as well. It’s also not the Boulder of 1995. Or innovation. Or ethnicity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With every business being global in scope and always-on, a phone-in service available in a local time zone during work hours only, is not competitive. Generation Z (born after 1995) is a new major spending demographic, who expects to do everything via their smartphone, and lives on YouTube videos, instead of reading instruction manuals.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. By 2024, ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

s progress on gender diversity issues has slipped below the global median. Even lower down the ranks, the number of women tech companies employ has declined – from 37 percent in 1995 to 24 percent in 2016 — and is predicted to decrease further in coming years. Cast a wide net. Compared to other countries around the globe, the U.S.’s

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

Consider this bit of recent history: In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. Email readers, continue here…] By 2024, at least ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. That is six-tenths of one percent of the world’s population. Consider the numbers.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 22, 2015

There are only 3 things you need to know as to why it (or a crypto currency) will eventually dominate global commerce. It might take 10 or more years, (think back to what the internet mean to you in 1995), but it is going to do for money, what the internet did for information. Nobody controls bitcoin. It is a thing.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant. American VCs are critical.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. The Arbor Brewing company also has a microbrewery and has recently established global presence in India. Were you worried that you may not be able to control your global brand experiences?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Sure you hear more about hackers targeting big tech companies, but they also target small businesses and startups because they’re more vulnerable and while the implications may not be as consequential to global economy, they’re much more devastating in the scope of personal and small business success.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

My Internet Infopreneur’s Journey The year was 1995, and the Internet had just come to India. I was an early adopter, and found myself fascinated at the global reach and access the World Wide Web offered at my fingertips. These were the benefits that turned me towards information entrepreneurship.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Global Support. Mr. Andreessen said he used to see things different. It is unsafe to go public today without a dual-class share structure, Mr. Create an Account: Register for Limited Access. Subscribe to WSJ.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt). But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. Over the last decade, Dan has served on more than a dozen public and private company boards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

A report by the McKinsey Global Institute says there’s “an opportunity to raise the productivity of interaction workers—high-skill knowledge workers, including managers and professionals—by 20 to 25 percent.” For more on the staggering cost of business email, go here. Email Less. Collaborate More. Following ACT!’s

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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