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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology. In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Software is eating the world. Oil and gas—new finds are increasingly software driven.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. 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.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My strength was not in finance, so one of the first things I did was hire someone to handle the books and keep me on a solid financial path, so I could focus on running my business. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. What were the election results?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

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. Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there. INTEL BUYS ISRAELI MOBILE NAVIGATION FIRM TELMAP.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9) 9) Horrible Experience.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Billing software company Amdocs has acquired mobile payments and messaging firm MX Telecom for $104 million in cash.

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