VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

The continual innovation of technology and product can provide infinite scalability for an Online Retailer. Phil Leahy, CEO Retail Global is passionate about making connections and has founded 2 major annual conferences for digital retailers. Phil Leahy – CEO Retail Global AU and Retail Global US. 5 Stars Irene!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University. Haifa is also home to.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. Well done Reed!

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Such extreme differences between the two markets have made it difficult for US mobile startups to successfully enter China, even if they manage to partner with top local players. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3%

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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. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As the global health crisis continues to force many of us to work from home, business leaders have had to think on their feet, and fast, to adapt to a new way of running their companies. According to a recent survey by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics , between 2005 to 2017, there was a massive 159% increase in remote work.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, too many of the technical entrepreneurs I mentor and advise are focused on their technology, and assume that the value will be self-evident to customers. Voice recognition and artificial intelligence are great technologies, but very few customers today can tell you how these make their life more enjoyable.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I need leaders who manage in good times and bad.To build a large company you need to manage through economic cycles. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. I’m long on payment technologies.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

It will be great to catch up with Idea Management System vendors like CogniStreamer , and innovation service firms like Ideas To Go and Maddock Douglas. Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization?

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. 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%. In the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

As we moved from the industrial age to technology, the thing that got left behind was the human element. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. As a result they work better together. People are starving for the human touch.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

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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

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Tips For Managing Remote Workers | Business Insider - crowdspring.co/19fk1pf. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 | Forbes - crowdspring.co/H47XhY. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Global study: World not ready for aging population – Yahoo News - crowdspring.co/19LsRt2. ” - crowdspring.co/16aZ5Ts.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. We think it’s a matter of products, but history shows us it takes more than just products and technology to create the sweeping changes. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. . Both were discontinued years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2018

Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Martino is the author of Expect Leadership, a series of leadership books – The Executive Edition, in Business, in Engineeering, and in Technology.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Give up the buy and hold mutual fund ghost, especially if it involves paying management fees, and if you insist on investing in public equity, then attempt to do so via more trading – driven investment strategies. Invest Internationally.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And as Dan’s manager or teammate, you needn’t wonder. Dan, you’ve tried managing people on two other occasions and it didn’t work out. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. It doesn’t matter. Oh, he’s not a terrible person.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Many leaders have sidestepped their leadership responsibilities in favor of managing the herd with stats and ultimatums. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Leverage diversity to create unity!

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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. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives. And that’s both how and why we raised $2.7

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. Click here to make a reservation. 6:30 Registration. 8:30 Networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London. I thought that, too.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Reply Eran Shir , on November 21, 2009 at 9:35 pm Said: Steve, a great post is judged by the level of discussion it manages to spur, so in that metric, this is a fantastic one.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Manager Bob: “Our associates will not repond positively to further cuts in their benefits. Dick then processes Bob’s pink slip and cuts non-management benefits by 30%.&#. I strongly recommend against it.&#. You know our employees are our most important asset.&#. That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

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