Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

As the emeritus Chief Technology Officer of the United States, he still connects government and Silicon Valley. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. He’ll talk about making a profit and making a difference in a conversation with New Media Ventures’ Christie George.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2012

ISWec 2012 2012 was created in recognition of the lack of strategic platforms for buyers and sellers to network in the region, as well as to allow local technologies in Malaysia to have an avenue to showcase their products. Solutions are increasingly gaining in complexity with the rapid changes in technology.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2018

Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has taken measures to increase adoption of EHR (Electronic Health Records) and eliminate the use of paper records. The adoption rates of EHR are soaring, 87% of office-based physicians have adopted this technology already. The blue button is one of such assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Brad on blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). But even the older Boomers have learned to use technology and social media as the source of expectations from your business, more so than your own traditional marketing. Use new technology to personalize and expedite.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.). But manufacturing technology has proceeded to get smaller and smaller. Limits are overcome, worked around, or solved by switching technology.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2011

During the Forum, Cloud Computing was highlighted as the number one technology priority for companies in 2012. Yi Ning Lim is a marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign , one of the first Certification Authorities, providing Digital Certificate and credentialing services since 1996. The Sleeping Dragon Awakes in China.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For nonprofits, technology offers many avenues for storytelling, which effectively further nonprofit missions. Technology enables interconnectivity that allows ratings agencies and apps to draw data from multiple sources, consolidate it, and condense it before presenting it to stakeholders. That’s right!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the recent years, with numerous companies providing the technology to enable organizations to access applications over a network to remote computing sites. Mobile cloud technologies help to enable more sophisticated mobile apps, offering them to a broader spectrum of mobile subscribers.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. Howard Diamond, a close friend and entrepreneur I’ve worked with since 1996 (now the CEO of MobileDay ), regularly criticized me as been too trusting, too willing to see the good in people, and too patient with people.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. Two years ago, airports in the United States started piloting face recognition technology at departure gates as part of the Exit Visa program.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. and Half.com.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

From 1996 to 2000 Don learned the art of Penetration Testing while consulting for both Ernst & Young and Deloitte and later took a position with one of the first Managed Security Services Providers, Counterpane Internet Security. Don is helping evolve research operations and research technology in line with the growth of Malware.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I have no idea what he’s done between 2000 and 2012 – he didn’t go into it, but he used his 1996 – 2000 experience to explain why his new business was going to be great. Big companies love The Formula. They keep doing the same things over and over again until they don’t work anymore.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Even after the team introduced Mosaic, the world’s first browser, almost nobody thought the Internet would be significant beyond the scientific community­—least of all the most important technology industry leaders who were busy building proprietary alternatives. The implications of the propriety vision were not good.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. They share stories with world-class marketers who use technology to generate growth and achieve business and career success. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Tom Stanfill.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. And I will miss him every day.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Chris Shipley is executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, through which business, technology, policy and philanthropic leaders work together to identify and solve to some of the world’s biggest challenges. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. It’s crucial that boards perform their due diligence in learning more about the steps their college is taking to remain in compliance with HIPAA in order to avoid fines and liability issues.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses (ie, ones with real revenues) is 39. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. There were twice as many successful founders over 50 as under 25, and twice as many over 60 as under 20.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

The Millennial generation – which generally refers to individuals born between 1980-1996 – continues to fascinate businesses. Millennials grew up with technology and are comfortable using the Internet and their smartphones for all sorts of things, from banking to shopping. by Sally Poblet, CEO of Wellthie.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

One memorable example of this was Xerox’s internal venture capital fund, Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. As Steve would say, this is a big idea. Ordinary VCs would use this success to raise an even larger fund, and try to create the magic once more.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

Often, there’s plenty of room for you to offer a variation that will find a healthy market niche, especially now that online technologies are revolutionizing everything from how we shop to where we stay on vacation. There really is nothing new under the sun – and that’s a good thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S. There are twice as many over-50 technology company founders as there are under-25 technology company founders. had an average age of 39 when they started their companies.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2016

My first company (Feld Technologies) was acquired by a company doing a rollup (AmeriData – acquired 40 companies between 1992 and 1996 when it was then acquired by GE Capital.) Interestingly, many technology assets don’t need a lot of people. The classically rollup strategy was much more focused on acquiring revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

So – I decided to go down a website memory lane trip for Intensity Ventures (my personal investment company), SOFTBANK Technology Ventures (my first VC firm), and Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna’s first VC firm, which was an affiliate of SOFTBANK). You’ll note a few extra partners here.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook). Everything).

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds. I always knew that I would someday start my own company.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Some of them build great technology and awesome products that do meet user needs, but sometimes forget/overlook figuring out the revenue model till a lot later in the process. we began by building chat servers. Same thing, just different, trendy nomenclature.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” It was 1996 when Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan first uttered the now historic phrase “ irrational exuberance.”

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