ReadWriteStart
JUNE 2, 2011
She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. I chose to use computers I owned that were designed for compactness for their time.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Just to make the point that markets are never static, Toyota, a company that sold its first car designed for the US market in 1964, is poised to surpass GM as the leader in the US market. By then it was too late.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The New Exits.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018
The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information. The background for my story.
Berkonomics
SEPTEMBER 17, 2011
The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. And here were over a million users, with no apparent value to the web designers, except as a community of friends with similar interests. We now jump forward to February, 2000, 14 months after formation of the company.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
118 
Let's personalize your content