VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice.

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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.

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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.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We competed with other technology companies, and, like Bill Gurley, largely ignored whatever was going on in Washington. The tech ecosystem got a rude awakening in May 1998 when the U.S. These are the examples Bill Gurley were talking about. We were content Washington didn’t know we existed.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time. No prizes for guessing … there’s ALWAYS a second act in technology. Is the game over? The Future: Where is Social Networking Headed Next?

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond. Today, Columbus Technologies and Services supports NASA, DoD, HHS, and NOAA among other government agencies. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice – [link]. Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link].

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. I didn’t have any visibility into what a career in startups would look like, how to get started, etc—just wasn’t even looking for them.

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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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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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? .

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. All of those companies trade at high multiples.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 60

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.

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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.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. billion because it fell in love with technology, succumbed to Waterfall product development and never bothered to get out of the building, get their heads out of their spreadsheets and ask, “What do customers want today?”. What went wrong?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

However, Jobs became less of a jerk after three children by his second wife came into his life between the years of 1991 and 1998. But the now ubiquitous Apple products came out of that period of technological and marketing missteps. Technology should be invisible. Don’t let money ruin your life. How do you turn this on?

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With the rise of technology and advanced analytics, today’s traders have access to more data than ever before. Bio Ilan Levy-Mayer is and has been an Associated Person (“AP”) and Vice President with the Introducing Broker (“IB”) Cannon Trading Company located in Los Angeles, California since February of 1998.

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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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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. 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. First week on the job.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. Doctors and drug dealers equally found these devices handy. Video Recording.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Filed under: Technology , Venture Capital. The revenue, profits and speed of scale of the winning companies can be breathtaking. The New Exits. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions. You have to deliver.

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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?” 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.

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