Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. The most obvious change is that now social networks become mobile & “location aware.&# The highest profile brand in this space is FourSquare. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Let’s dive into these stories.
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Ben's Blog
JUNE 18, 2011
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.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
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.
Ben's Blog
MARCH 24, 2011
In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? The Past (1985-2002). The Present Era.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2018
These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. What’s the distraction level from mobile devices? Over-the-air updates for car software will become essential. For example, accelerometers-on-a-chip made airbags possible as they were able to detect a crash in progress.
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