VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Citigroup intends to open a technology research and development center in Israel in December to support its global activities. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. With that money, it was able to expand its home office and establish a separate manufacturing and refurbishment facility nearby.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience.

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deal architect

AUGUST 7, 2019

I don't mean to pick on NetSuite but it is one of the oldest cloud apps vendors - born as it was in 1998. Over 21 years, you would think it would have a fuller global footprint. Especially since it.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. After a long research done on the market, I realized that there aren’t many vendors offering to monitor both local and global news sources at the same time. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Commodities, in particular, are highly sensitive to global news. They’re constantly monitoring these global trends and digesting them into actionable advice. A drought in a key agricultural region could send grain prices soaring, while a diplomatic spat in the Middle East could push oil prices into uncharted territory.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 09, 2006. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or how to save 70m with a measuring spoon. Save the planet!

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Much like Yahoo once lifted the valuable bits out of America Online (AOL; the US internet company), made them global, and became far more valuable than AOL, Netflix is lifting the valuable bits out of the cable business and making them global.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. The best score was 100; I had started out, in 1998, in the 90s. by Pekka A.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

years in 1998 to 9.6 The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. It worked, big time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2020

Schuchat also served as director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases from 2006-2015 and Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch from 1998-2005. Globally, she has worked on meningitis, pneumonia and Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa, and conducted surveillance and prevention projects in South Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. In 2008, she established Confirm BioSciences, a global leader in quality diagnostic health & wellness testing solutions. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

My business partner and I wanted the new name to reflect our striving to be a “Kingdom Business” discovering what unique role God wants us to play in the local and global marketplaces. Launched in 1998, Care2 is the world’s largest community for good, with over 35 million members taking daily actions to make a difference in the world.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If you’re building a global business, there are three key elements you need to put in place: A set of country managers who are responsible for, and have strong executive control over, their individual markets. A unified executive team to coordinate global operations, including the activity of the individual country managers.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. 2019 Global Games Market – Newzoo. Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In 1998, Miyamoto was honored as the first person inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame. Jeremy is now CEO of an exciting start-up business in the global football and entertainment sector where he is applying his philosophy. He commanded such respect from everyone who knew his work.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow !

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. With the help of their marketing agency, Just Media, Lumension, a global leader in endpoint security software, realized greater potential and effectiveness with their retargeting campaigns.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. Among the most noteworthy markets for newly-established businesses, India and China are the ones most likely to eliminate inefficiencies in global trade. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The company is also known for being a great employer, making Fortune magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list every year since 1998. Niketown is the retail name for global athletic brand Nike, and their stores have been popping up around the world since the first opened in 1990 in downtown Portland, Ore. Whole Foods.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

In closing, I’m not saying there isn’t some room for Old-School Management Philosophy that was pertinent after we reduced our Industrialization Era competition to rubble (Germany and Japan), but we live in a different world and a different Global Economy today – let’s keep our eye on the ball. Browse Articles by Tag.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). And, for the last category (the shares I own personally), I still use the long-term formulaic approach I came up with in 1998.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you have the time and resources, A/B testing different layouts and designs can yield excellent results and insights (needless to say, this holds true globally, by the way, not just for recommendations). Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It is full of awesome anecdotes of how Jeff leads Amazon to keep changing and prospering in our brave new worlds of global and social e-commerce and business. In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

market share and 1,000 global employees. In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. John Noel founded Travel Guard in his basement with a 0% market share.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998?

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

billion acquisition by Apollo Global, Rackspace Tuesday announced it is cutting 6 percent of its U.S. Founded in 1998, Rackspace is one of San Antonio’s largest technology companies with about 5,000 employees worldwide. Three months after its $4.3

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. For example, in 1998, Prof. My take – don’t throw the baby with the bath water. This release showed that the bar with consumers is high, but nevertheless they are innovating in relatively new territory.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. Nielsen reports that two-thirds of global consumers will pay more for sustainable products. But you don’t control its interpretation.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry. Matt Stewart , Senior Marketing Manager, LendingTree (NASDAQ: TREE ).

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