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Burning Platform: Developers, Developers.

deal architect

In September 2000, Steve Ballmer was ahead of most executives in loudly cheering for software developers. The video below leads off with his exuberance. In the 31st episode of the series I am joined by James Governor, co-founder of Redmonk.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

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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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Kozmo offered one-hour delivery of snacks, coffee, DVDs, magazines, tubes of toothpaste - pretty much whatever you wanted at a moment’s notice. Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit. Startups are often an iterative process,” Newball says.

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Startup Funeral: Honoring The Lessons Of Failure [Video]

ReadWriteStart

In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Kozmo offered one-hour delivery of snacks, coffee, DVDs, magazines, tubes of toothpaste - pretty much whatever you wanted at a moment’s notice. Max Delivery charges a fee and makes a profit. Startups are often an iterative process,” Newball says.

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Seven considerations to ensure your broadband is up to the task

NZ Entrepreneur

Are you constantly connecting to the cloud and on video conferences? Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps. Chances are your employees are doing more and more things online, from e-mails to cloud applications and video conferencing – often at the same time! Consideration 3: GOT GOOD PERFORMANCE?

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How will you ride the next wave?

Berkonomics

With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. The true value to us will be in analyzing unstructured data, estimated to be 80% of all data stored, from blogs, social media, pictures and video.

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