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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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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. The position of the airplane no longer uses ground radio stations, but rather is determined by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites or autonomous inertial reference units. What’s the distraction level from mobile devices?

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone.

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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. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community.

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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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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

billion in 2007, as investors worldwide tightened their belts in the wake of the global financial crisis. real GDP growth for Israel in 2010 in the absence of extraordinary developments, and Fischer has said the economy may grow more than that if the global recovery accelerates. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM.

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