YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 22, 2019
It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car. The urgency of climate change concerns has triggered global actions to reduce CO2 emissions.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years.
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Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. Our growth engine has run out of a key fuel– basic research.” In the 1990s the U.S.
Growthink Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2011
For in addition to bringing so much beauty and joy into the world and to creating one of the most admired and profitable companies of all time, Steve Jobs was one of the few leaders in this incredibly complex global business world of ours who really seemed to know what he was doing. Have a maniacally consumer-centric vision and approach; #2.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.
Diego Basch
MAY 16, 2011
Bitcoin is a P2P currency that could topple governments, destabilize economies and create uncontrollable global bazaars for contraband. It reminds me quite a bit of mp3 files in 1997, when they were just a novelty and record companies didn’t know what to make of them. Hyperbole much?
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