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The ?PC? Era Finally Arrives ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What he and others have meant is of course that the desktop computer is losing its preeimance as the primary computing platform with the rise of smartphones and tablets at one end and cloud computing (in all its forms) at the other. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

On the IT side of VC investing, we’ve seen countless waves crest and fall… mainframes to minicomputer/workstation, workstation to PC, copper to optical networking, client/server software to cloud, the fabless semiconductor model, magnetic tape to hard drive, etc. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) In 2000 or 2010, it made sense to build in San Francisco. all Bay Area firms?—? Texas is hitting critical mass as a global startup hub.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. They’ve been around for nearly 100 years, but they embraced technology and the Internet relatively early. ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD – Lea Hickman. BBC MOBILE – Alex Pressland.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available.