article thumbnail

5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

article thumbnail

LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Genius, Power, and Magic

Growthink Blog

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! The lesson is clear - whether you are in a low or high-tech business, ask yourself daily what is proprietary about what you do and how you do it and then work to protect it. #3. Begin it now. "

article thumbnail

How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. To understand the SEC’s point of view , it’s necessary to review the principles underlying securities law in the United States.

SEC 158
article thumbnail

Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent. Now close to 85% of customers say that they read 10 or more reviews about a local business before engaging services. Maybe pull back a little bit, wearable tech.

SBA 60
article thumbnail

Coronavirus: Will It Boost the Adoption Of Remote Work?

Transformify

Probably the first ‘’red flag’’ was Apple’s announcement that the company had revised its revenue guidance due to a slowdown at manufacturing sites in China as well as reduced demand by Chinese consumers. ICAO also forecasts that Japan could lose $1.29 Is Remote Work Popular in Asia?

article thumbnail

Cracking The Code: Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson?

Cracking the Code

2002, the stock price went from $17.5 In search of Europe's next tech stars. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. My Yelp reviews. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? per share to $8.0 Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive.