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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). Collision avoidance systems (warning / automatic braking) –> demonstrated by Mercedes in 2003 as well as by Honda for Japanese market and Acura brand.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. It was 2003. They are cost effective and really powerful when combined together but sometimes completely disconnected and hard to integrated without extra work done by engineering teams.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. He was previously Senior Vice President, responsible for product lines and manufacturing operations, at SigmaTel through its 2003 IPO and then acquisition by Freescale.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Everything).

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8 Risky Business Investments That Paid Off Big

YoungUpstarts

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Believe it or not, but the uber successful retailer, J. It wasn’t until Millard Drexler, former Gap Inc.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My engineering career-as a researcher at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, before I started Flarion-had been in communications and information theory, so I’d expected to stay involved in those technologies. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. #37 – Looking for My Next Challenge.