The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. Early adopters tend to be the most tech savvy members of the population; the average person found the mobile phones available on the market hard to use. Viktor Marohni?

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What about the internet? It’s long past the year 2000 now and you really should be using the internet to further your business goals. Successful businesses succeed on the back of the tools that the internet can offer, but before we have a look at the tools, let’s talk about success. The internet has it all!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 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. Carpe Diem. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Requirements: You must be a safe driver, not afraid to put miles on your ride and an iPhone or Android in order to use the Lyft mobile app. Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Task Rabbit.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Originally, I had invited a dozen or so internet entrepreneurs to a Cambridge bar where we crammed into the back room wearing hand-drawn nametags. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst. era to a mobile-first one, and soon beyond even that.

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Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

The End of “Internet” Companies. Al Gore's 2012 Induction to the Internet Hall of Fame. I’m not sure whether it’s 10 years from now or 50 years from now, but at some point in the medium to long term future we’ll cease talking about “internet” companies in any meaningful sense.

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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. Which brings me back to your mobile phones. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors. Retail investors were burned in IPOs in 2000, Consumers getting burned by services disappearing) Minutes 31-35.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. But that’s a discussion for another time ?? .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Revenue models became more important a measure than traffic, although market share was and still is an over-weighted part of the value of any Internet-based entity. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It allows you to analyze your SRT, monitor your pages, and test your site’s speed on a mobile device. Here’s an example of how it looks: PSI provides insight into both the mobile and desktop versions of your site and gives you vital information on what you could improve. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. Today, there are over 2.1

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

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. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license.

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Open Source Business Model Technical Cofounder Southern California 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. There is also another inherent weakness.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

China Mobile Ltd. The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. It has expanded its wings even in internet connection where it has over 34,000 Wi-Fi hotspots. If you are to invest profitably any of the companies we will list below, you will need to have a genuine broker.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Cyber-Physical Systems Working with government and industry to create standards for a new generation of interoperable, dynamic, and efficient “smart systems” – an “industrial Internet” – that combines distributed sensing, control, and data analytics to help grow new high-value American jobs and the economy.

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

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. Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. PayPal was the first big online payment system and it eventually helped bring about mobile payments. Mobile Payments.

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United States Mobile Internet Technology 100

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

From my personal experience, Latin Americans often see Internet and the tech scene as the magical potion that’ll make us more like our idealized image of North Americans. 254 million internet users (18mm ’00). 273 million internet users (108mm ’00). In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America.

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America Canada Brazil Mexico 164

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They want to ensure that people are not creating a huge RAF of content using LMS AI that will fill the internet with a bunch of croft things that are not really that valuable or are not properly fact checked. John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results.

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SEO ChatGPT Technical Review Search 60

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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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2016

One thing that stands out as a little different for me is that the best investors get behind big themes – e.g. the internet, open source software, SaaS, ecommerce, mobile, marketplaces – which feel a bit like the deterministic theories that super forecasters are sceptical of. Mobile is a great example.

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Forecast Venture Capital Open Source eCommerce 60

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is the first of a two-part series on mobile conversion and how to improve it. It’s based on thousands of user tests conducted by UserTesting , the leading usability testing service for mobile apps and websites. Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert? But according to Forrester , up to 30% of traffic to major websites comes from mobile.

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Mobile Conversion eCommerce Design 122

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. ” “It reminds me of what China was in the early 2000′s,” adds Paine.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I talked about the mobile-first millenials, the rising middle (and unbanked) class in emerging markets and the inevitable opening up of financial data – referencing Plaid as an example of a key tech enabler. Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector. .”

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Disintermediation Aggregator China API 69

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

The major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform will hit in the next 8 years; 3) the economics of building Internet businesses has changed; 4) the markets are much bigger. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Fonality HUD Mobile. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Advertising.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

In case your computer industry history is lacking, WS-I is the industry consortium that got together a decade ago to create specifications for Web Services protocols (note the capitals, so as not to confuse with actual internet services that use HTTP and REST for loosely-coupled data access).

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Web Open Source Architecture Internet 51

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 They ignored us.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2016

I first noticed it in late 2000 when the fund I was working for was invested in one of six high profile and highly funded enterprise portal businesses. Other examples include mobile games, DVD rentals, and cloud storage. It’s likely to happen in bots and AR/VR next.

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Burn Rate IPO Valuation Mobile 60