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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Many “me, too&# companies will perish.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

This the 21st installment of Startup Decision Making will conclude my writing until after the Holidays. Hurricane Irma had a major negative revenue impact on one whose fall book of business was mostly in Florida. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. Yes, that has multiple meanings!)

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

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. . And >40% of that revenue is coming from in-game purchases. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

“Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. In 2009 it boasted revenue of $4.49

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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