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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). Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? was starting.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Michael and Mark are business savants, just like Michelangelo was an art and engineering savant (by the way, I’m pretty sure Michelangelo would have made a damn good entrepreneur in this day and age). At the beginning of Bazaarvoice in 2005, the market risk was whether or not we could convince retailers to embrace both the positive?

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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 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”. Everything).

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 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).

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