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. He discovered the Icosahedral Phase of crystals aluminum transition metal alloys in 1982. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” Entrepreneurs versus Saboteurs Startups and scaleups outside of companies or government agencies want to take share of an existing market, or displace existing vendors. coffee with Rohan, an ex-student.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Inside the zones were Torch Technology Business Incubators with startups licensed by the local governments. Like the U.S. It went bankrupt in 1997.).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

I began my volunteer work on the burn unit in early 1998 and within months of my volunteering I co-founded Moonlight Fund, a nonprofit for burn survivors. I searched the country for nonprofit and government support and found little-to-none.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

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). For example, one of the common tools for teaching entrepreneurship at the business school level is the business plan competition.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

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). For example, one of the common tools for teaching entrepreneurship at the business school level is the business plan competition.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). The product worked.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. 4] Corollary: Avoid starting a startup to sell things to the biggestcompany of all, the government. We were a company whose wholem.o. was to win through better technology. This was also one reason we didnt go public.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. It's painfully obvious that, like many other folks in NYC government, Ms. Hey everyone!

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. government) giving grants to innovate R&D-based projects and grants for research studies, etc. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup. Sceenic is based in London. In the U.K. backed by the U.K.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I wish I had foreseen that within a year of publishing The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Achieve Radically Successful Businesses , many large organizations, including such monsters as the United States Federal government (!) Make no mistake, Brant and Patrick have been here since the beginning.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

years in 1998 to 9.6 Venture capital partnerships are typically ten-year partnerships with historically proven expectations that significant liquidity will be delivered from successful partnerships to investors by year 6. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5 years as of year-end 2008.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2020

He is a qualified barrister, having been called to the Bar in 1998, and started his career as an in-house lawyer working in intellectual property, data protection and commercial contracts.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

This means they break up a big project into smaller projects, where the smaller project teams can stay nimble and be less subject to complex governance. For example, Mike George joined Amazon in 1998 through Junglee’s acquisition. Another important hiring tactic is Amazon’s ability to keep acquired founders on board.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street.

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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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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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. Remember, in addition to founding and leading one of the most successful technology companies of all times, Jeff Bezos also made arguably the greatest investment of all time.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

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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. Here’s Ortiz’ take on what is happening within the “mobi” space not only in Austin but also in the U.S. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth also worked as an Auditor for United Government Services, a division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin auditing Medicare cost reports under contract with HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration) from 1996 to 1998.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia. Thanks to Tracey Davidson, Adventure Snacks ! #29) 29) Stay at Home.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . Yes, there were other factors at play like the addition of new products, and increased marketing efforts, but these things wouldn’t have paid off nearly as well without the emphasis on creating a fun, friendly experience first. GetResponse (est.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. ← Startup Failures On The Rise UK Government To Launch VC Fund To Rescue Startups → Comments are closed. Think about that. Bookmark the permalink.

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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. In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4) 4)      Boston.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. The ministers also unanimously approved Steinitz’s proposal to implement a calculation system that would increase the government’s annual expense rate from 1.7%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. In Greece, 10% of the populace works for the government at higher than average wages.    Risk taking is discouraged. .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

To appreciate why economic and government leaders place such a high priority on 5G technology, here’s a look back at how 5G emerged from its 3G and 4G predecessors and the economic impact that each generation of wireless advances have had, along with a look forward at the impact 5G will have in the future. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

At Flavours Holidays], we have been specializing in cooking, Pilates, painting, photography, and language holidays in Italy since 1998,” she says. Further, we had a very simple organization structure, so ease of governance and compliance drove our choice of corporate structure.”. Why was an LLC the best choice? “We

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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. More Stable Currency for Some Citizens of the World Some people don’t trust their governments with a national currency.

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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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