Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products. million businesses in 2014.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. A generation brought up with constantly evolving technologies, Millennials are the most digitally aware and technically savvy of any preceding age group. Millennials are cost conscious. Soma donates to global water charities with every filter purchase.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I had been working on research that focused on regenerative medicine and also training in cardiology, and started to wonder if some of the emerging technologies of stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and our understanding of how cells become complex tissues, could be applied to fields beyond the biomedical sciences.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Thanks to key alliances with the Forge Foundation and the global recruitment platform Transformify , teenagers that go through their program, will broaden their job opportunities at an international level by applying to remote jobs. Also, the non-profit will start offering their program outside the juvenile detention centers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request. Now look around.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s also an armed globally-dispersed Sales and Support teams, so we’re selling to our 70,000 existing customers as well as thousands of new customers per month, which means we’ll end up adding more new revenue in one month than a small company will take in over a whole year. Technology & Infrastructure.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. When running a startup company, there are many benefits to being at the forefront of technology.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Narayana Murthy pulled a Michael Dell when he called time on his two-year-long retired life and retook charge at Infosys, the Indian information technology (IT) giant he had founded three decades ago in a small apartment with six others. Infosys would now be a technology solutions provider. All the way from 1993 to 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Only three things make society richer over time – physical capital, worker capital, and technology – with the latter being the greatest. In 2000, some economists believed that the world had entered a “ new economy ” based on the incredible communications and computing advances made throughout the 1990s.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

I went through the information technology revolution and was on the bleeding edge of both technology and the acceptance of women in the workplace. . Through his class, I learned what to expect as far as occupancy, cost of goods, insurance, taxes, real estate needs, and more. I became an entrepreneur. . We had many cancellations.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Technology has changed almost everything in the modern world – and now it’s changing the concept of money too. According to cryptocurrency investor and founder of the DNX Community Graeme Conradie, Ethereum is definitely the runner-up to Bitcoin when it comes to global dominance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Despite US centricity, it also serves as a barometer for technology and the global economy. In Australia alone, this install market is a AUD$40 billion opportunity (20m cars @ $2000 per charger). Their ad took a shot across the bow of their technology brethren. You can see all the ads here. Dropping the ball.

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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. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Key Takeaway: There are economic, technological, and social parts of our world that are changing rapidly today more than ever. Gain Grow Retain is built to inspire SAS and technology leaders who are facing day to day. You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption. Jonathan Brill (03:12): That that's exactly right.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” He then goes on to calculate a global estimate for the historical taxi and limousine market. The global market would obviously be much larger.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. Cost per lead. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. cost per download. Image Source.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 There are also societal and political factors at play including a growing acceptance among physicians of the practice of home care, as well as pressure to alleviate the demands placed on hospitals and an overall desire to find cost efficiencies in the health care system. “In Technological upkeep and maintenance.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

AT&T promised in April to open Watson up to general development, but on Monday AT&T SVP for technology and network operations John Donovan made the launch official in a blog post , revealing seven different “contexts,” or language libraries, that app builders can access to speechify their products. Sign up for a free trial.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. We now expected that people in a relationships met online. To get started is mostly free.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3% Seed-stage deals now require $5.1 million; Series A rounds reached $9.4

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. According to what I see, as outlined by Surdak, this data surge is being driven by the following six technological and social trends: Mobility: smartphones, tablets, and the “Internet of things.” Cloud computing: the death of dedicated infrastructure.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. It’s a great business. It still serves just 60 customers per day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Thanks to on-board wifi, you can join me in that thought process, if youd like.

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