Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! (Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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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”. Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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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. As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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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”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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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? These early adopters have access to high-end handsets, access to the Internet, the Web and applications, music on their handsets, personal information and access to friends. Tags: Digital Government innotech Mobile.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . Thing is, the novelty of “Ooooh, Internet” has been wearing off for quite some time, and as more and more people do their shopping online , the function of just having what someone wants isn’t going to be enough. GetResponse (est.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Macroeconomic choppiness is holding back more dramatic market euphoria.

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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. Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. 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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. 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.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased. Today it’s the Internet that’s going to put the studios out of business. SOPA gives corporations unprecedented power to censor almost any site on the Internet.

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