The Next Web
JANUARY 17, 2014
Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. But outside of these cities, China’s mobile market is made up of millions of less affluent consumers who use low-cost Android phones and often don’t have access to high-bandwidth mobile connectivity. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 9, 2010
When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. I’m just listed who I perceive as the market leaders. We raised $16.5
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 8, 2020
Even if the blockchain that powers Bitcoin lacks the bandwidth to handle the required transaction volume, and even if the world wasn’t ready 11 years ago for non-governmental e-money to go mainstream, the potential was always there. What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999.
thebarefootvc
DECEMBER 16, 2011
In places where international diplomacy had failed, citizens around the world found their individual and collective voices to topple dictatorships and demand better lives for themselves and future generations. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Progressive.
BeyondVC
JUNE 8, 2004
I have always been a big believer of the hosted software or ASP (application service provider) model since we made our first investment in LivePerson in January 1999. Recently Kana announced its new “on-demand” model jumping on the hosted software bandwagon. First and foremost, without customers there is no business.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
The existence of cryptocurrencies can create a way to provide economic value for those who provide computing resource or bandwidth to a product built on P2P infrastructure. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight?
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