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Crazy enough to change the world

Steve Blank

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

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Crazy enough to change the world

Steve Blank

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. founder paired with a mentor who had two operating companies in this space, who had developed and sold vertical market software to companies in this space, and had studied the field as an academic specialty. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV. based teachers.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

Since 2005 a second generation of active safety features have appeared. Instrument Landing Systems – to help automate landings by giving the aircraft horizontal and vertical guidance. In the 1990’s computers capable of real-time analysis of wheel sensors (position and slip) made ABS (anti-lock braking systems) possible.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). and hopefully?—?grow I think really hard when I’m naming a new startup.

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5 Typography Tweaks For Better Web Design & Response

ConversionXL

This is no doubt why, at least as far back as 2005, users were overwhelmingly voting for small fonts as the #1 web usability problem. The situation has improved since 2005, but designers are still more enamored with their personal aesthetic preferences than with what users find comfortable to read. For 60-year-olds, it’s just 20%.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. Consider this.