Steve Blank
MARCH 22, 2022
Tens of billions of public and private capital are being invested in Quantum technologies. Countries across the world have realized that quantum technologies can be a major disruptor of existing businesses and change the balance of military power. Currently this is a nascent commercial technology in search of a future viable market.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 24, 2021
The move to remote work forced quick adoption of cloud technology and tools that were once having difficulties selling to large corporates, saw explosive growth – from Zoom to Hopin, new unicorns were born in record time. Disclaimer: we have three portfolio companies in the consumer mobile space, still in stealth). social media.
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VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).
Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2011
A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 3, 2023
Many exited or IPO’d (and subsequently lost much of their value in the recent downturn), but new success stories have also emerged. And new technologies, like generative AI, are creating new opportunities for founders to stand out in the consumer space. Much has changed since then.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Build a world-class technology platform, with patent-pending algorithms and the ability to scale to millions of simultaneous users. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch. Stealth is a customer-free zone. Conduct constant focus groups and usability tests. We can skip the chasm.
adamac.blogspot.com
MARCH 9, 2010
Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. Just using technology isnt enough (who doesnt have a website these days?)
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