Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2013

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. What is your mobile strategy?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2013

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” Christensen in “ The Innovator’s Dilemma ” way back in 1995. Such technologies, like the digital camera and mobile phones, introduce such novel concepts that they displace existing technology quickly by societal standards.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 14, 2018

Born between 1980 and 1995, the timing of the rite of passage for this generation loosely coincides with the birth of the Internet and when digital technology went mainstream with compact discs, personal computers and mobile phones. What better way to tap into this hi-tech community than the digital way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2010

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Great startups always beat the hype.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2014

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Even if you have heard some of the new terms, but can’t explain how, when, and why they are relevant to your startup, you may be in jeopardy. Social mobile web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

How many times have investors heard startups start their pitch by touting that their technology is “disruptive?” Christensen in “ The Innovator’s Dilemma ” way back in 1995. Such technologies, like the digital camera and mobile phones, introduce such novel concepts that they displace existing technology quickly by societal standards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). As the most connected and technologically equipped generation in human history, Gen-Y entrepreneurs are using today’s tools of communication, collaboration and mobility to build startups with little or no startup capital and few employees.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I believe we’re going to look back in 2-5 years and realize that we’ve been in a once a decade boom for internet & software startups. Facebook will do $7-8B in revenue this year, essentially none was from mobile ads last year and now >40% of their ad revenue is from mobile ads.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Image via Wikipedia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

As well as phone support, customers expect you to accept mobile messaging, and provide quick responses via social media and multiple Internet websites. Generation Z (born after 1995) is a new major spending demographic, who expects to do everything via their smartphone, and lives on YouTube videos, instead of reading instruction manuals.

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Gust

JUNE 29, 2014

back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it a while back, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings. Peak of inflated expectations.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Just about 4 years ago, I wrote on these pages about the struggle to protect the internets and some proposed legislation that was threatening the many small businesses and startups who depend on cyberspace to do business, feed their families, and assure that their employees will continue to be paid.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 12, 2016

The other story of this era that isn’t shown on the chart is the explosion of unit sales, first from growth in PC and more recently from growth in mobile. Overall that’s a 46x growth in the number of computers sold per quarter since 1995. Meanwhile iOS and Android have grown from nothing in 2007 to c400m per quarter.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. They said I don’t understand mobile. The launch, by the way, was a failure. And it’s now bankrupt.)

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Mobiles tell us where we are, and why we are there. Not being listed or ‘located’ via mobile is like not being listed in the white pages. Often known as Startup Camps. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. Forget the net – launch with mobile. They are now changing into ‘Do Tanks’.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

There has been a deluge of cool startups happening in our local community lately. Which Bill Gates first spoke about in his book from 1995 – the Road Ahead. Another smart startup which seems to flow nicely into NFC and the digital wallet. Wealie (app). It has smart exit options too. Micro payments for a micro blog.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. The two watershed events for biotech startups were the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and the Orphan Drug Act of 1983. I call them “ Lean VC’ s” to emphasize why they’re different.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. The “PC” Era Finally Arrives. October 17, 2011.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Startups have honed in on every vertical imaginable, branched out from product to services, and tested out new paths to profitability. Over the past few months, Version One has been diving into every detail of marketplace strategy while putting together a handbook on “ Building Marketplace Startups.” Mobile unlocks new use cases.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, you could be dealing with different channels (“on-site”, “in-app”, “mobile web”, etc.). Personalization for mobile sites, web applications and mobile apps is trailing behind, relatively uncharted. But personalization is on the rise. via Evergage). Context is important here.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

What a great way to transform them into mobile advertisements. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Google was initially meant to be a search engine and today the company has ventured into wearable technology, renewable energy, mobile phones, and other web applications. 18- Twelve.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. You can find it here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). What’s the distraction level from mobile devices? began to decline.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Dear Santa - [link]. Beyond the install: 10 keys to driving sustainable mobile user growth - [link]. crowdSPRING Blog - [link].

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When it comes to the total value of exits, consumer startups cumulatively exceeded enterprise exit value in the period of 2018-2022. The top five consumer companies with largest exits account for $426B in value creation, or 30% of the $1,436B generated in the consumer category since 1995. greater than that of enterprise companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices - [link]. Micro marketing: 5 tips for small business and startups – [link]. Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. My closing arguments are below.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Facebook is acquiring Snaptu, an Israeli startup that makes Java-based feature phone apps, for an estimated $70 million. Snaptu is a startup run by a highly innovative collection of engineers and entrepreneurs who we already work closely with,&# Facebook said in a statement. Unemployment fell to 6.1%

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday. When I decided to leave my mobile data start-up in 2013, I remembered my mortgage experience from 2010, and found that nothing had changed – the model was broken, antiquated and inefficient.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

The digital wallet as spruced about by Bill Gates way back in 1995 – every tech player, bank, payment system and hardware developer is in the battle. Mobile payments growing at an astounding rate in e-commerce. In the past 2 years payments via mobile phone grew 57 fold in Australia alone. What does this tell us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. So although you were not willing to work as hard, you then founded a startup, which is. He’s currently the CEO of the company. That was not the plan.

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