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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Yet once the software is coded, it can be reproduced millions of times at virtually no cost. A growing number of skeptics are openly talking of a ‘high tech bubble’.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. VatorNews : What do you like to invest in?

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

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