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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

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Former Head of Microsoft Israel Dreams of Billion Dollar Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

His name is often associated with other successful Israelis such as: Shai Agassi , Better Place founder and CEO and former next-in-line to become CEO of SAP, Safra Catz , CFO and co-president of Oracle, and David Perlmutter , an EVP of Intel and GM of Intel Architecture Group. The base of our industry is weakening.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

2 nd decade (early 2000): The First Content Management Systems (CMS). In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. If you wanted a website, you had to pay someone a lot of money to set it up for you.

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Accel 2021 Euroscape: On the path to global dominance?

Cracking the Code

We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore. The distributed workforce will continue to add impetus to the zero trust architecture imperative and infrastructure as code will lead to the convergence of code security, application security and cloud security.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even something simple like converting HTTP links to HTTPS or updating “number of likes” in real-time, becomes a monumental architectural challenge. Eventually something difficult breaks and you have to rearchitect the stack to solve it. Not only does this slow down development, it adds investment.

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With Great Startups It’s All About The Execution

Startup Professionals Musings

Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 Maximize technology architecture and standards. billion during the same period.

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Want Your Business To Last? Here Are Seven Lessons You Should Learn.

YoungUpstarts

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today. Pay Attention to the Trends.