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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Tags: Digital Government innotech Mobile. Combine this with what Austin has to offer, from its friendly people, great city to live on, the University of Texas and VCs, and other.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market. I recognize that we have major structural issues in the global economy and they are perhaps more daunting than they have ever been.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. I smiled when some asked if they were too late to enter the sector.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. The position of the airplane no longer uses ground radio stations, but rather is determined by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites or autonomous inertial reference units. This feature was finally required in 2013. Lessons Learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade.

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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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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans.

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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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Up and Running

MARCH 19, 2018

In 1998, Gregory Dees explained social entrepreneurs are more likely to: Adopt a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private or financial value). For example, in 1989 and 2017, The Body Shop and BUAV (now called Cruelty Free International ) rallied and campaigned for the British government and the E.U.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 30, 2017

How about Venezuela funds from 1998? It's no longer just a political issue when you're operating in an environment where the government is threatening the otherwise very stable national platform by which you've built your business on. What investor wants to take that extra layer of government risk?

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