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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2016
If you are new to the entrepreneur funding game, like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were back in 2001, it pays to bring in a CEO such as Eric Schmidt to find investors, who was well-known to the investment community for his accomplishments at Sun Microsystems and Novell.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 11, 2021
On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. For example, most people thought Twitter was a total snoozer, when Jack Dorsey was looking for funding, especially with MySpace already owning that territory.
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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
This notion of a Web where machines can better read, understand, and process all the data floating through cyberspace first surfaced in 2001, when a story appeared in Scientific American. The Semantic Web isn't really even a new idea.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 11, 2016
Witness the struggle of the Segway human transporter, introduced back in 2001.Technology New technology solutions often raise the specter of new government regulations. Even the most obvious rules can take years to get debated and passed nationally or internationally. Technology can change faster than laws.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 9, 2011
The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The third company is still alive.
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