Start Up Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Cryptocurrency and the underlying blockchain technology that powers it are amazing. The most common from HODL enthusiasts is that Bitcoin (and other cryptos) are a safeguard against increased government ‘printing’ of currencies, such as the USD and an eventual debasing of national government-backed currencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. I’m long on payment technologies.

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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. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. For the U.S. So what to do?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

In recent years, its technology, manufacture, and service industry became the source of the city’s wealth. The early miners in the area were government convicts and miners from Britain and Wales. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well.

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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. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. For the U.S.

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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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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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Technology revolutions take a while to fully mature.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2013

Organized by Paris-based events organizer Comexposium , both exhibition-cum-conferences will see key players in the mobile payments, electronic card technologies, and mobile marketing converge together to discuss these spaces as well as how markets in Asia have adopted them for use. ID Management & e-Government.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018? Sceenic is based in London. In the U.K.

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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%. 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. How do you market to them? •

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. STOIKY is his callsign.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

VC investment per capita is lower than the US (it’s now 33% lower) and enterprise spend on technology here is much higher as a ratio to VC investment than it is elsewhere in the world. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void. However, whilst money didn’t flood into the void, it did trickle.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

government waits, the more devastating the eventual assault is likely to be.” In fact, because many of the best-trained and most creative experts work in the private sector, blanket secrecy will limit the government’s ability to attract new innovations that could serve the public interest. government.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything). Everything).

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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. And then there is the government. And even better, the same technological trends that have made public market investing so difficult in the last 10 years have made startup (i.e. And if so, what to do about it? of these investors (i.e.

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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. A certain General Partner might know a certain type of customer like telecom carriers, but not others like pharmaceutical companies or government agencies. And that’s both how and why we raised $2.7

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

government dataset compiled by the U.S. v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S. government policy ‘thenext big thing will not be invented here. Census Bureau. Jobs will not be created here. And wealth will not accrue here.

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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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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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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything). Everything).

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

His unique style and personal touch has helped him develop a large worldwide audience consisting of accountants, bookkeepers, and small business owners, as well as general consultants and technology enthusiasts. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. CPA’s.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Offers specialty eye care using world class state of the art technology. CETRA Language Solutions (Great Lakes).

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve written about board governance challenges for startups since 1999, publishing one book, a series of three white papers, and many articles and blog posts on this topic. In these videos, I don’t just ask difficult questions, I answer them. To learn more, go to my Facebook fan page Entrepreneur Essentials.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

We are now well-beyond 13 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading, on an inflation adjusted basis, much lower than they were in July 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to July 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,031, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,685.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. It’s clear to me that our economic divide is also a technological divide and unless we solve this economic disparity will persist. I know we have a budget deficit and as an economic conservative I believe in smaller government. Nobody cared.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. The company was purchased by United Technologies Corporation for $18.4 billion in September 2011.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. Behind every new breakthrough technology, every new industry trend, there are people. It was 1999. One guy named Jeff had even launched what he then called “Earth’s biggest bookstore.” You just started building.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

We met in 1991 when Martin had just started his company (TriNet – now a public company) and Feld Technologies (my first company) was a dozen people. Martin is running for Congress in Upstate New York (District 22) as an Independent.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

We must solve the IPO problem, and a review of historic IPO data pre-technology bubble suggests that we need to achieve an average of 130 IPO’s per year to restore equilibrium to the venture-backed company liquidity cycle. Share and Enjoy:

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

I was recently asked some questions about changes afoot in the creative, technology and media space. We’ve already seen this in other areas influenced by technology and we need to learn from it: computer companies entering phones (Apple), web companies entering hardware (Google), software / web are entering music.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans. For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates.

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