VC Cafe
JANUARY 12, 2022
The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992. As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . What is the metaverse?
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 16, 2018
Fact: the world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola. each retailing at a cool US$4,000, with the first text message (SMS) only sent in 1992. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2011
The innovation engine that powered the U.S. Since 1992, Congress has diverted nearly $1 billion in applicant-paid fees already earned by the USPTO to other uses (like the 2010 census), leaving the patent office unable to deal with the threefold increase in patent applications over the last 20 years.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2020
For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. The opportunity is huge within the existing market. Experience is a great teacher.
The Startup Magazine
MAY 28, 2018
The Beanie Baby fad – a genius feat of engineering supply and demand. Warner’s sales doubled each year, exceeding $6 million by 1992. He engineered the rise in demand by increasing the scarcity of supply. The other method to turn a profit from fads is to create the fad, like Ty Warner did when he created Beanie Babies.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
JANUARY 13, 2014
Tony –working on “iPhone” circa 1992 Me–product manager, having a ball. And our excitement went off the charts when we met Matt Rogers, Tony’s co-founder, who was responsible at Apple for iPod software development and one of the first engineers on the original iPhone team.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
The 1992 team’s roster reads like a list of the greatest NBA players ever: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley. As another summer Olympics came and went, there were rumblings about this year’s U.S. men’s basketball team being the best ever.
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