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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. Often this is part of a good forecast.

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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

percent in 1998 to 7.7 While Indian developers had previously found themselves at the bottom of the pecking order, they are now often the top choice for software roles. Therefore, software does not need to be bought at one expensive price, but rather rented in affordable monthly installments reducing the friction to use SaaS.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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