Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.
The Equity Kicker
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast.
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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Who will sell the advertising space in our brains?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 4, 2010
The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. The only problem is that it’s simply not true. By then it was too late.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.
VC Cafe
AUGUST 24, 2022
For example, in 1998, Prof. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes).
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