ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] When told of Musk’s comment’s, Buffett acknowledged that technological change has made moats more vulnerable but not irrelevant. Takeaway : If demand has firm boundaries, aim for geographic dominance. Efficient scale.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. The Power of the Individual: This was the year that the individual, amplified by technology platforms, became empowered to rise against oppressions both large and small.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 90 days since this deal was announced, car OEMs like GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler as well as tech giants like Google and Apple and on-demand transportation companies like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Gett all scrambled to form strategic/investment partnerships with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In reading my friend Steve Blank’s arguments, I found the bubble definition quite compelling: “A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin.&#. It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs.&#.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Has the U.S. in History from UCLA.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

You – being members of the technology community. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects. It is a channel disguised in business clothing.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Is it a 3-year fad, or will new technologies like 3-D keep going to the movies from being relegated to the dustbin of history like Vaudeville, the afternoon newspaper, the evening news, the variety show, and the compact-disc? What is the future of Pay-Per-View/Video-on-Demand (PPV and VOD)? Has the U.S. in History from UCLA.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. We had recorded $1.8

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Ferris eventually sold BrainQuicken and became a best-selling author, in-demand blogger, business consultant, motivator, and popular endorser. From a company worth $1.6 See Also: What Defines Your Company Culture? Focus on flexibility of strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. It is often LESS performant. Enter Salesforce.com.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) Pursue Global Markets. This is HARD.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market.

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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). Progressive. Image source ). As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. Consider using Amazon EC2, 99Designs uses it, they get 5.25TB of images uploaded frequently, EC2 helped them scale with customer demand.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

As a Jew who grew up in Germany and moved to Israel in 1999, I find this stoic philosophy Israelis display as one of the country’s key elements of success. The Palestinian suffering will not end when Israel withdraws or agrees to any other demands. Photo Credit: AFP. Israel has done that many times in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. Deer are not so big that they can make huge demands on you for your development resources or customer support. If their demands are too high you can easily move on to the next customer. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

He founded eBay to empower individuals through the use of new technology, and has created livelihoods for millions of individuals throughout the world. I wrote my applications to college, or rather typed them on a typewriter with a bottle of WhiteOut close by.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. Our reputation with founders has then enabled us to invest in great entrepreneurs building the great new technology companies. How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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Andrew Payne

JANUARY 16, 2015

This is one of my absolute favorite disruption patterns: “commodization+crossover”, where a technology is commoditized by demand for one application and then applied elsewhere. Things began to change in the 1990s, driven by demand for 3D games , first with arcade units and consoles, and then PCs.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! while if it’s (b) we can shovel money out the door creating demand and sell into it. By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog).

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. My Journal.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. billion in September 2011.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? Behind every new breakthrough technology, every new industry trend, there are people. It was 1999. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing? In many ways, your generation will be the ones who end up determining this the most. How much change will you tolerate? And how do you do that? Relationships matter.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. It's a big tent.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. 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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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

From the Work Less Institute of Technology, “ Psychophysics in Cyberia ” (written in response to the ea_spouse posting): It was over a century ago that Dr. Ernst Abbe conducted his observations on working time and output at the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany. So we are forced to draw analogies from other industries.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Modern business, shaped by technology, is increasingly diverging to two nodes – on the one hand to great size quickly (see Google, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, et al.) How do you market to them? • This is HARD.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. VC Cafe: Can you tell me a little about the technology you’ve used to build the service? AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. VC Cafe: Can you tell me a little about the technology you’ve used to build the service? AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand.

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Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. VC Cafe: Can you tell me a little about the technology you’ve used to build the service? AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business.

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