Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. 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. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 Some industry insiders expect that there will be 10,000 SaaS startups from India in the coming decade, which means thousands upon thousands of new roles. While these may sound like a reading of the tea leaves, they are based on positive forecasts and recent history. percent in 2017.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. 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. Step 2: Forecast the linear trend.
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. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. I have the purchase history to prove it.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 18, 2011
about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
billion Iridium was one of the largest, boldest and audacious startup bets ever made. But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It crashed back down to earth as one of the largest startup failures on record. The result was a classic startup failure writ large.
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