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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

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According to an Accenture study, companies are increasingly becoming invested in creation, with 62% of high-growth companies planning to invest in technologies that lead to higher rates of innovation study. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

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Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem.