YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

Just as Information Technology (IT) services transformed India in the 1990s, Software as a Service (SaaS) will dramatically shift the nation in the 2020s. Information Technology services in the South Asian nation barely existed at the turn of the final decade of the 20th century. percent in 1998 to 7.7 percent in 2017.

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India Silicon Valley Global Software 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. This world of local meets retail meets digital advertising portends to technology disruption and with it VC opportunities. The Funding Problem. This never existed a decade ago.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2024

“Only the Paranoid Survive” Andy Grove – Intel CEO 1987-1998 I just had an urgent “can we meet today?” Or if they have a disruptive technology or business model, they want to create a new capability or operating concept – even creating a new market. Object to structures and processes for the rapid adoption of new technologies.

Government 293

Government Advisory Board Leadership Programming 293

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Gabriel Shaoolian is a leading digital trends expert, entrepreneur and founder of DesignRush , a digital destination to inspire creativity and the discovery of design and technology trends.

Europe 100

Europe Software Review IP Affiliate 100

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. It assumes that car companies will do a good job self-certifying these new technologies.

Technical Review 300

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 300

K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time. Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review San Francisco Startup Architecture 117

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Database 78

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Finally, cutting edge technologies ought to at least have an impact on greatness, right? b) Good-to-great companies use Technology as an Accelerator , not a creator of momentum. They do not chase after fads and shiny bright objects, yet become pioneers of carefully selected technologies.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Merger Valuation Framework 159

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

What can technology take off your plate? Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. Ditto with lead management and scheduling – emailing back-and-forth is as gratifying as watching a mopey zoo lion pace to and fro in a cage.

Cost 100

Cost San Francisco Software Review Technical Review 100

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Competitors respond and also reduce price to maintain market share either by adopting similar technology or cutting margins. Comparing the same General Motors model large sedan in Australia gives us the following cost in real terms: Price when new – 1998 = $25,077 (96% of average annual income)*. Car prices are a good example.

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IP Technical Review Australia Distribution 48

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Myth #2: All startups are technology companies. Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Facts: Only a few new companies are startups.

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Cofounder Montana Startup Seed Capital 100

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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Israel Argentina Paraguay Uruguay 90

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

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. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

These are people born after the 1980s who grew into the online world of the Internet, social technologies, computers. I bought MichaelHyatt.com in 1998. The Digital Native Effect. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. While your current audience may not be so social media savvy, this is increasingly changing.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Technical Review Internet 100

Andrew Payne

JULY 28, 2014

The Court of Justice of the EU ruled Google had to remove search results linking to a 1998 newspaper article about the foreclosure of his home (due to unpaid debts he later paid). For better or worse, search technology has permanently changed the privacy calculus. It seems arbitrary that some have freedoms and some don’t.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Search Engineer Internet 49

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers.

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Los Angeles Networking Southern California Marketing 150

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation. This exponential reduction in battery cost and improvement in battery technology, more than anything else, will affect both the cost and range of electric cars.

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Artificial Inteligence Government Nevada Cost 183

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Needless to say that before you start and throughout the entire process, you should make sure that technological requirements are met. He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000.

Social Media 231

Social Media Media Stock Clickthrough 231

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I realized in working with so many startup technology firms is that even if you don’t give permission to third-party apps to access your information much of it is available anyways as long as somebody you’re connected to is more promiscuous with third-party apps.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. It takes less to start a business these days – We all know that it takes less to start a technology company these days.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

and China threatens to escalate, 5G wireless technology has emerged as one of the major fronts in the long-term competition between the two superpowers. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. As a tariff war between the U.S. 3G: Opening Up the App Market.

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South Korea China SMS Germany 133

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 279

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference. The only problem is that it’s simply not true.

Silicon Valley 324

Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 324

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. A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs?

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 129

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. Bobby is awesome and I’m really psyched he’s back in Boulder at CU.

Indiana 73

Indiana Colorado Cofounder Community 73

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? .

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

The term ‘pre-chasm’ is a nod to Geoffrey Moore’s 1998 classic Crossing the Chasm and refers to companies that may have sold to early adopters, but haven’t yet found a way to sell to the mainstream. Getting sales going in those early years is terrifically challenging and requires great product and great sales.

Software 106

Software Startup Channel Early Stage 106

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Startups in developing economies, for instance, are addressing their issues through ingenious technologies and solutions. Nevertheless, the East provides countless opportunities covering a wide range of sectors, such as information and communication technology, energy, and finance. Israel is a technologically-advanced market economy.

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Israel Russia China United Kingdom 113

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., Programmed Learning and Educational Technology 18(2), 57-61.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 22, 2014

Having been in the agency world for 15 years ( started my first agency building websites for companies in 1998 , sold that in 2008 and stayed with the new agency, Engauge, until last August when I left and started Dragon Army ), I had a lot to say about what is wrong with the relationship between these two parties.

Advertising 67

Advertising Technical Review Demand Mobile 67

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Back in like 1998? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. And bouncing messages not from your friends? How is a person on the outside supposed to know what your privacy settings are? Remember when people used to say that their e-mails got lost? Now, we have a reasonable assurance that if I e-mail someone, they got it.

SMS 108

SMS Venture Capital Search Naming 108

The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 19, 2010

The argument was made by Michael Mandel (formerly of Business Week) that we had very few real technological innovations introduced into our economy since 1998. The argument may be that there is no real base of new technology to build from to jump start a recovery. It centered on what really caused the recession.

Technology 40

Technology Entrepreneur 40

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. In October 1998, I was excited beyond belief when I received an approval notice for an H1-B visa through my own company! Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 In a startup cash is king.

United States 114

United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 171