YoungUpstarts
APRIL 16, 2018
Fact: the world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola. each retailing at a cool US$4,000, with the first text message (SMS) only sent in 1992. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 29, 2020
For example, you may think that disruptive smartphones were an overnight sensation, but in reality, it took huge investments by several different companies starting in 1992, including IBM, Apple, and Google, before the market really took off in 2007. The opportunity is huge within the existing market. Experience is a great teacher.
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The Startup Magazine
MAY 28, 2018
The Beanie Baby fad – a genius feat of engineering supply and demand. Warner’s sales doubled each year, exceeding $6 million by 1992. He engineered the rise in demand by increasing the scarcity of supply. The other method to turn a profit from fads is to create the fad, like Ty Warner did when he created Beanie Babies.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
The 1992 team’s roster reads like a list of the greatest NBA players ever: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley. As another summer Olympics came and went, there were rumblings about this year’s U.S. men’s basketball team being the best ever.
Agile VC
JUNE 30, 2016
Lane departure warning –> first deployed by Mitsubishi in 1992 and broadly available in early 2000s from Japanese manufactuerers. GPS navigation –> pioneered by Mazda and Toyota in early ’90s, Toyota also had first CD-ROM based map system. So How Will We Get to Driverless Cars?
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 9, 2020
I’ve loved Alan Lightman’s writing and the idea of a human that behaves like Alan Lightman since I read his first book Einstein’s Dreams when it came out in 1992. In fact, the wonders of Einstein’s relativity and the idea of the Big Bang were the engines that propelled me into science decades ago.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 12, 2018
Peter Tassiopoulos has focused on finance, technology and startups since 1992. A year later, Sphere 3D engineered a $70 million acquisition of Overland-Tandberg, which propelled the company’s growth even further. He currently is vice chairman and president of Sphere 3D Inc.,
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