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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. There was no money train. It was 1991. There were startups and a software industry but barely. We still loved every moment.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Global Demand. The size of the marketplace has ballooned as a result of globalization, and this trend has been particularly good for US technology companies and their workers.

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The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail

David Teten

It’s immoral because if BDS succeeds, it will hurt billions of people globally who use Israeli technology , including in many cases to save lives. The BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement) is a global attempt to persuade people not to do business with Israel or businesses that do business with Israel.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. So is John Rice, the head of Global Operations along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business. The company’s resulting success has allowed it to move into the consumer sector to develop popular and successful products like the Roomba vacuum robot and the Braava mopping robot.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. The breakthrough here is how smaller online shops found a platform that helped them reach the global market and be a part of this new rising phenomenon. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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