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Even the Smartest VCs Sometimes Get it Wrong – Bill Gurley and Regulated Markets

Steve Blank

He illustrated his talk with regulatory horror stories in the telecom market , electronic health records , and Covid antigen tests. Unfortunately, for startups entering a regulated market following this advice this might not be the optimum path. But regulated markets are different. Regulation What’s regulatory capture?

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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

VC Cafe

But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search. Sure, there is Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ask.com and a few others, but no one comes even near Google in terms of market share or mind share (90.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. Along the way, I co-authored three books on one-to-one marketing ( [link] ) to help marketers learn how to built and nature relationships with their customers.

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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan. Thanks to assistance from SBIR-funded research, iRobot was able to conquer the thorny challenge of moving a project from the demonstration stage to a marketable and profitable product. TRISTAR — Engineering its own success.

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Why India Will Become The SaaS Hotbed Of Tomorrow

YoungUpstarts

percent in 1998 to 7.7 The Y2K and its resulting impact has transformed the nation into the product builders, managers and marketers – and what is to say the same thing cannot happen with SaaS? Better communication and outsourcing options further the case for India to take over the growing SaaS market. percent in 2017.

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Why SWOT Analysis Belongs in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Thinking in SWOT terms put everybody on the team into engagement with the whole business, the broad view of strategy, market, and goals. 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). Engage your whole team on your strategy and goals.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

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. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. A story tells market need way better than general market numbers.

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