The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change. But most of the local funds are small and the local ecosystems sub-scale.

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. to lease the meter network for 75 years in exchange for a one-time upfront payment $1 billion. [5] Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

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Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. His computer network crashed from so much demand from people attempting to sign up. Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Folksonomy. Free product. Page 3: Competition.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. It’s a great business.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors.

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Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. According to Ferenstein, “AAA estimates that the average cost of car ownership per year is about $9,000.” New Use Cases.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

Dan Janal: When I self published my first book, which was early in 1991, it cost thousands and thousands of dollars. And if they publish it then they’re shouldering the costs of printing, proofreading, copy editing and all the other good things. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter.

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Flash Software Review Naming Los Angeles 74

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? I quickly navigated to the official site for buying the product and found that the shipping charge was almost three times the product cost. Who are such companies kidding?

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. . Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Allot Communications.

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Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network. created a vastly higher cost structure; I had 80 people mostly on base salaries under $100,000 and was bringing in revenue at the rate of $20 million annually. During this year they.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Bates: Fantastic.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. KeyWifi is the world first peer-to-peer wifi exchange platform; it launched in May this year at TEDxEast in New York.

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Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). What will a 1-second delay cost you? 1 Start using a CDN (Content Delivery Network). 8% of people cite slow loading pages as a key reason for abandoning their purchase. Pretty useful stuff.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s those who distribute it freely.

Technology 47

Technology Artificial Inteligence Social Media New York 47

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2018

I realized, it took me about two months because I’m slow, but I realized that scribes have been doing this for 2000 years. The sell of a traditional publisher is they’ve got all the connections, the sales, distributions in place. We use pretty standard distribution channels to be honest. Buddha, his disciples.

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Distribution IP Audience New York 60

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

My company, Future Workplace, and Virgin Pulse partnered in a study of over 2000 managers and employees in 10 countries. And it lowers commuting costs, of course. John Jantsch: And you know what’s interesting, there’s so many companies today that have distributed workforce. It’s those who distribute it freely.

Technology 30

Technology Artificial Inteligence Social Media New York 30

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22