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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. I hate the forecast that assets some huge market and takes a small percentage of it.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. You say, “Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.&# Are you entering an existing market, resegmenting an existing market, or creating an entirely new market?”

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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. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Akamai: The Present. Founding Akamai.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years.

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