Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. To really assess what opportunities the VC industry has over the next decade, one needs to first look at some of the root causes of poor returns in the past decade.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

T he goal of a SWOT analysis is to develop actionable insights—you want to catch opportunities and pitfalls sooner. It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). We used a whiteboard and worked on bullet points.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For instance, people who smoked tobacco regularly developed cancer, heart disease, diabetes, tuberculosis, etc. Thankfully, multiple studies and reports proved that smokers had an increased risk of developing health issues. That’s why the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was signed by 56 states in 1998 on every victim’s behalf.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. But that’s outsourcing development — it does not mean have a boundaryless team. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet. Ditto for Apple.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do. 2] Peter V.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

We are thus more likely to befriend those people, we are more likely to develop strong ties to them, and even eventually to marry one of those people. [1] This is dangerous, the author argues, to the development of an adaptable, thoughtful culture. article discusses our tendency to hire people who look and think like we do. 2] Peter V.

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Board Effect

MARCH 15, 2022

Good governance anticipates problems and develops processes to arrive at solutions in a timely manner. Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. Hospital governance encompasses many different areas, including audit, education, compliance, regulation, security, and education.

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Government Leadership Framework Security 96

Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time. 1998 – Raj and I (with Sasha and Gavin) at UNC-Charlotte. Raj, thanks for everything. Love you, buddy.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This presents a chicken-and-egg question: are people with mental health issues more likely to become entrepreneurs, or are entrepreneurs more likely to develop issues due to their lifestyles? Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. I’ve written before about Revenue Development ). Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonation of his voice in my head as I type this.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Third, the cumulative effect of these changes is a hollowing out of the broader US capital markets and a decline in corporate competition: the number of publicly listed companies in the US declined by 50% over the last 20 years, while other developed countries have experienced a 50% increase over the same time period. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Prior to the industrial revolution the vast majority of people worked directly in agriculture, and now it is less than 5% in developed economies. Comparing the same General Motors model large sedan in Australia gives us the following cost in real terms: Price when new – 1998 = $25,077 (96% of average annual income)*.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

Disclaimer: I don’t know if I am (or ever was) a hardcore back-end developer. I did make money for a long time doing web-scale development work for a bunch of companies. I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. I started coding in the 80s. So what was 2look4?

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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.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

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. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Developing a culture of continued education and continuous improvement is critical if you want to retain your staff and provide them with advancement opportunities. Encourage everyone to read books for personal development. One of my biggest regrets and mistakes in life is that I didn’t start reading books until age 40.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. The coolest thing you can say to anyone todat seem to be when you announce that you’re launching a startup.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Citigroup intends to open a technology research and development center in Israel in December to support its global activities. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli to win the Nobel Prize.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Previously, he was Vice President of Global Business Development for Massive, Inc.,

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. By Ben Bakhshi. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Besides Tony Karrer for software/web development in Los Angeles ;) who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? In 1986 I started an advertising and public relations firm to serve software and hardware companies, which became a marketing consulting business ( www.Allen.com ) when I moved to L.A.

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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. First to develop or patent an idea. In 1998 Goto.com , a small startup (later Overture, now part of Yahoo ! ), created the pay per click search engine and advertising system and demo’d it at the TED conference.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

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. It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). Napster arrived in June, 1999. That’s the ideal case.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Up and Running

MARCH 19, 2018

In 1998, Gregory Dees explained social entrepreneurs are more likely to: Adopt a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private or financial value). Socially responsible companies also often reinvest profits into the business or use them to actualize their mission statements.

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Government Campaign Early Stage Retention 114

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. GESSI develops standardized sample contracts comparable to the National Venture Capital Association in the USA, which are available online at www.standardsinstitute.de.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. Not only will users have to get used to dashboards that are now computer displays, they are going to have understand the subtle differences between automated and semi-automated features and do so as auto makers are developing and constantly updating them.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. I told myself it would make me better at my job–but really I was starting to develop a new career. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998″ – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Avoid Decision by Indecision – [link]. Seed Stage Valuation Guide – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Blake also founded Dynamo Labs, where he and his team develop solutions for the rapidly changing clean energy marketplace.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 16, 2023

While Seinfeld ended in 1998, it’s been the subject of a zillion mashups since then, including the great Twitter feed called Modern Seinfeld , a TikTok actor doing his own spin on it and even some Hip Hop Tv fusions. We’ll develop emotional connections with actors, in Tv shows that don’t actually exist.

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Artificial Inteligence Video Naming Developer 62

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While there are many things that drivers can do to stay safe on the road, there are many advanced vehicle safety features that have been developed that can help lower driver error rates even further – and make our roads safer for all. Side airbags have also been developed that can protect passengers in side-impact collisions.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

currently trails China and South Korea in 5G development, a situation which puts America at a disadvantage if it is not addressed. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. The development of 4G expanded on the 3G revolution by making mobile broadband applications possible.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

An AI Safe Harbor Provision Would Create Guidelines For Development & Safety Without Premature Regulations The conversation around Artificial Intelligence has started to take on a binary quality, rather prematurely, as if we were debating the two sides of a coin rather than a more complex shape. Let builders build as is” vs “Regulate.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. These local governments financially supported the startups because, by locating in these zones, the new ventures were seen as contributing to local economic development.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. As the Chief Executive Officer of Confirm BioSciences, she pioneers the development of proprietary labels for widescale retail and corporate distribution. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background.

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