David Teten
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. 1994 – present. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1 Time Period. Total Investments.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 14, 2014
In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, so this was the data he was looking at. Coindesk just published their quarterly ‘ State of Bitcoin ‘ presentation. I forget which it was.
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YoungUpstarts
MAY 5, 2017
In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. Shepard, America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s spacecraft is known as the New Shepard.
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
This recession lasted until 1994. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst.
Mucker Lab
MAY 20, 2013
1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook).
Mucker Lab
MAY 21, 2013
1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook).
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 23, 2016
2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment. You can apply this to pretty much anything in tech. 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Apply Gartner’s Hype Cycle to it.
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