article thumbnail

Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more more than the combined market capitalizations of Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo, Netscape and the entire Internet sector. The revolution at the edge.

Romania 77
article thumbnail

Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more more than the combined market capitalizations of Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo, Netscape and the entire Internet sector. The revolution at the edge.

Romania 44
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

30 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Companies They Admire Most For Innovation

Hearpreneur

Ask anyone about the top brands in regards to tools for your home and in the construction world and DeWalt comes to mind because of their innovation, both with their products and how they’ve marketed themselves. Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. It’s very admirable. 24- Basecamp.

article thumbnail

Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Public market comparables. A basic driver for a private technology market bubble is the over-supply of venture capital into the sector. In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996.

article thumbnail

In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… Markets. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. It is unsafe to go public today without a dual-class share structure, Mr. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. Marketing Jobs.

article thumbnail

Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Broadcom, which has a market cap of $21.7 Its Java-based applications replicate many of the features of smartphone applications, but make them accessible to the millions of people that don’t own a smartphone. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300.

Java 79