Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

While there may be generational gaps about fashion or social conventions, millenials are often at the forefront when it comes to technology. Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks.

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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. . —– When I came to U.C. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. Berkeley peers got in Steve’s class.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

To give you some background, I moved to Santa Fe, NM from the East Coast in 1995 to start a company with my older brother. Prior to making the decision to move out West I asked myself, “Is Santa Fe the right kind of place for me as a technology entrepreneur?” It doesn’t matter where I live.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. Changes in customer tastes, new technologies, legislation, new competitors, etc. Go take a look at any of the government organizations talking about entrepreneurship and see how many of its leaders or staff actually started a company or a venture firm. Fast forward to today.

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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. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. Relationships matter.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

The technologies were different, the time horizons were different, (2 to 5x longer to take a drug through FDA trials ~14 years,) and the regulatory environment was different (barely any in traditional VC investments compared to FDA trials for drugs and 510K approvals needed for medical devices.)

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London. It’s clear to me that our economic divide is also a technological divide and unless we solve this economic disparity will persist. I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Nobody cared.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

In today’s fast-paced digital world, technologies and trends often become obsolete before we’ve even had a chance to understand them. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. Evolve to stay relevant.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Branson, author of “ The Future of Tech Is Female: How to Achieve Gender Diversity “ Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. by Douglas M.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Five years ago, almost no one was talking about cloud – but today it is increasingly strategic for a broad range of industries, for academia, for governments. But we also acquire companies with technology that’s strategic to our business. That’s how I joined the company – when Cisco acquired Grand Junction Networks back in 1995.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. billion market capitalization. We had recorded $1.8

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. The Government axed the project shortly after.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Lately, it’s become in vogue to write articles, comments and tweets about everything that’s wrong with young technology companies. The word technology means “a better way of doing things.” The technology startup world is where brilliant people come to imagine the impossible. The Government axed the project shortly after.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 22, 2015

This is a very short way of saying that all jobs eventually get replaced by technology. Technology will take the role of many white collar jobs, just like machines have taken away many blue collar jobs, just like the plough took away many farming jobs. In 1995 $10 of that $100 might have went into getting filmed developed.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. What is the responsibility of the winners?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. It pays to be on the ball about what new technology is filtering into your sector, what trends are appearing and how they are being adopted (or perhaps not being adopted).

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  In VC, it’s considered more naturally a young person’s game (perhaps because we’re always dealing with waves of new technology, young founders).    It is scary to reflect on how few of the 7,000 professionals active in the industry today were general partners before Netscape’s IPO in 1995. (3)

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

There was also an opportunity to use technology to build a much more efficient business – one that could pass savings from those efficiencies onto borrowers. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. Image Credit: Travis Good. Thanks to Collin J.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JANUARY 30, 2017

George Gilder said in 1995: “Without immigration over the last 50 years, I would estimate that U.S. He said that in 1995. In the early 80’s before the personal computer, and more broadly, the rapid innovation of micro-chip technology, the USA economy was in a tailspin. Technology saved us.

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