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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.”

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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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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. a recommendation engine).

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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 acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. and was founded in 1998. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. The money has been really good. I can’t complain.