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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. (Internet).

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. Since 2005 a second generation of active safety features have appeared.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 The 2-year model, which was also backed by the Bank of Israel, will allow the government to present a long term plan and maintain market stability. and was founded in 1998. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. And this was at a prestigious engineering school. I had previously worked at an executive level in the government, specialising in international relations. 4) Used to Reconnect. You couldn’t read it.