Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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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. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Now look around.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. When I moved back to Australia I identified a gap in the market as these clear aligner businesses were not mainstream here. Instead of watching TV or trolling the internet I thought I'd try my hands at coding. Thanks to Alex Dask, Beam !

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Ads require an Internet connection and therefore turning off the data connection can stop the ads from popping up. Reducing the “random” and “unsolicited” connections to the Internet reduces the attack surface. formerly CA). In 2004 Don moved to threat research. In 2004 Don moved to threat research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on reports by Data Flair , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. We were keen on differentiating ourselves by highlighting our unique branding-e-commerce approach towards marketing. BrandLoom” encompasses our mission & approach to marketing - and makes us stand out from other agencies.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. 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.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Using a combination of market data, math, and financial analysis, Professor Damodaran concluded that his best estimate of the value of Uber is $5.9 billion, far short of the value recently determined by the market. The first is TAM, and the second is Uber’s market share within that market. Total Available Market Analysis.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 15, 2021

Today, most people take advantage of digital marketing to reach more consumers in a more targeted method. Whether you are a startup, a mid-size company, or a franchise, digital marketing is vital in helping grow your business. Digital marketing refers to the use of the internet to make your product known to various consumers.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). The internet is working. Thirdly, the market is far bigger.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. Global personal location tracking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on reports by Data Flair , Gartner , and other sources : Targeted marketing. Global personal location tracking. Global manufacturing.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Lee – Great post; thanks for sharing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing. Global personal location tracking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Helping American businesses access the information and services that will help them grow, hire American workers, and export to foreign markets. These innovations could lead to entirely new markets and platforms for growth in the economy, increase U.S. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While institutional LPs know big changes are happening, most focus too much on 1) increasing/decreasing fund size or 2) marketing + branding as the major trends. These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors. This is a long piece, so if you’re not a fan of inside baseball, skip it.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA. billion, of which $2.5

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I set out to address the environmental hazard of single use plastic bags and all the waste they were (and still are) by introducing a better solution, ECOBAGS®, to the market; a reusable bag made both ethically and sustainably. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The world is slowing turning into a global village and the level of telecommunication technology is escalating daily. An investor is someone who sails in the waves of the market and is knowledgeable about where next to put their money. By February 2019, the market value of this firm was $217.5 Verizon Communications Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. population.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. .” You just started building.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. The market was back! In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, is acquiring Provigent, an Israeli company which develops system-on-a-chip products that enable wireless system vendors to deliver broadband wireless backhaul systems to network operators. Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Image via @_DataTsunami on Twitter A tidal wave of valuable data is surging from the Internet and connected devices today, and the volume is growing exponentially each year. This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. All devices are fast becoming self-aware, user-aware, and Internet connected.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

A colleague and good friend was the Chief Marketing Officer of the world’s biggest brewer in the 2010s. The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. Well, we are already there; it’s just happening in dark corners of the internet. pic above from home page of DreamGF.AI He had challenges aplenty.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

According to this source , the global proportion of urban population rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization. billion) in 2005.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

It’s important to note that a fair amount of the recent capital in the market is driven by speculation from the astronomical returns that cryptocurrencies have achieved in 2017, and a “fear of missing out” (FOMO). For the first time, we have a truly global technology revolution on our hands, fueled by smartphones, sensors and blockchain tech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) 20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) What if it works?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. This is a global trend: newspapers in Brazil, Germany and elsewhere are fed up with giving away their articles for nothing on the internet. Mobile ad units are cheaper and more ineffective than online units, putting even more pressure on newspaper revenues.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. For decades, Domino’s played second fiddle to market leader Pizza Hut.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So, in hindsight, the great Internet bubble of 2001 was very powerful and useful to me, even though it was very painful. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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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. We were based in London.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. Media & Marketing. Marketing & Strategy. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet.

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