Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 The Funding Problem.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
We’re now in the second Internet bubble. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Carpe Diem. The rules for making money are different in a bubble than in normal times.
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David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011). He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.
alexpoole.info
AUGUST 14, 2012
Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .
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