2000 Cloud Distribution Internet 
View from Seed
JANUARY 31, 2024
This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. Is there a means of efficient distribution amidst the noise? Will new, native distribution channels emerge? Are these features, products, or actual companies?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2012
1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. Sound familiar?
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.
Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. Today, there are over 2.1
Agile VC
JULY 11, 2012
How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Should there be a notion of “founder equity” for those individuals who put in the hard work to start a firm and build the brand?
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 15, 2011
Israeli startup Blaze Meter , a load testing in the cloud compatible with open source Apache Jmeter, has recently raised an undisclosed round from Yoav Leitersdorf’s YL Ventures. Alon: BlazeMeter is the first testing cloud with a sole focus on load testing, designed to simplify performance and load testing for developers and QA testers.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 7, 2016
PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. As a result, there will be a race in this space, and we believe we can win that race.
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