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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. It seemed as though venture capitalists were throwing money at any Internet idea they could find – no business plan required. Our idea was to build a dial-up Internet service to compete with AOL, MindSpring and EarthLink. The best part was that it was a blind review.

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The Decade in Tech

Start Up Blog

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. The problem was this created a dangerous idolatry of any innovation big tech companies launched at us. power than elected governments.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

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. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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Entrepreneurship in the Fast Lane

Growthink Blog

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%. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. In the U.S. Place Culture Above All Else.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

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. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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