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The next phase of innovation

Start Up Blog

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few. Technology firms now make up seven of the ten biggest companies in the world.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. New industries never ask if it’s ok to sell a new raw material, they just take it and commercialise the demand for it. Today with algorithms we have a secret black box. The reason is simple: network effects.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Akamai: The Present.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I saw the struggles of my father as a mover, and started QuikForce, an online, on-demand professional moving platform targeted at helping movers, like my father, better schedule, manage and plan their moves. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. There is an obvious network effect at work when you bring together the world’s leading programs and the world’s leading hackers on a single platform.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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