Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

In Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, and other innovation centers across the country, entrepreneurs and their backers (who are not limited to venture capitalists) are all keenly aware that Washington’s addiction to enacting hasty, one-size-fits–all financial regulation will continue to have far-reaching unintended negative consequences for the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. Save the planet! ► 04/15 - 04/22. (1).

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

When I got out to Stanford in 1998 it was still the dawn of the consumer commercial internet. Global entrepreneurs have access to audience, to monetization and, increasingly, to local capital. Midway through my career, this is where I want to be and if I was just starting out, it would probably be the same story.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It is full of awesome anecdotes of how Jeff leads Amazon to keep changing and prospering in our brave new worlds of global and social e-commerce and business. In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

market share and 1,000 global employees. In 1998, Multi National Underwriters was founded by two entrepreneurs and in 2002 was purchased by the Noel Group in partnership with the original owners. Over the next 21 years, John and his team grew the business from pure startup to a 60% U.S.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each entrepreneur and brand. business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. As the son of entrepreneurs, it’s in my blood to create a business for myself. Start our FREE Business Blogging Course!

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), From Chicago’s Booth School of Business : The only two serial entrepreneurs in Chicago who can answer those questions have agreed to share what they know with students at Chicago Booth.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 14, 2013

It’s a nod to the global popularity of YouTube, which announced this March that it reached 1 billion monthly users who watch some 6 billion hours of video each month. All these phenomena are part of an ubertrend I call Voyeurgasm – and it’s changing our lives and maybe even your future. The History Of Voyeurgasm.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. To say categorically that MBA equals “not entrepreneur” is a foolish assumption, just like saying Masters in Philosophy equals “not entrepreneur.”

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. To say categorically that MBA equals “not entrepreneur” is a foolish assumption, just like saying Masters in Philosophy equals “not entrepreneur.”

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Thanks to recent decades of strong growth, the combination of China, India and Brazil have GDPs that are 4x the size and impact on the global economy as compared to the 1990s (see chart below). This powerful source of economic demand didn't exist 15 years ago. . ??.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. Founding Akamai.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

We became a global company and it was truly an entrepreneurial dream come true for Brant, our team, and me. And if you are an entrepreneur in search of a business idea, search for businesses that are in huge markets that are dependent on bad profits. Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- I came up with the name Excel Global Partners for my corporate consulting firm because of the vision I had for the company. Global – I wanted my company to have a global reach. Nowlin, Excel Global Partners ! #10-

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

My business partner and I wanted the new name to reflect our striving to be a “Kingdom Business” discovering what unique role God wants us to play in the local and global marketplaces. Launched in 1998, Care2 is the world’s largest community for good, with over 35 million members taking daily actions to make a difference in the world.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. ” Entrepreneurs (and the press that covers them) have found the image of a swashbuckling pirate so appealing that they’ve allowed the popular conception of pirates to lead them into patterns of behavior that hurt, rather than help, their companies.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In 1998, Miyamoto was honored as the first person inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ Hall of Fame. Jeremy is now CEO of an exciting start-up business in the global football and entertainment sector where he is applying his philosophy. He commanded such respect from everyone who knew his work.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to PWC, within the next 3-5 years, cumulative investment in FinTech globally could exceed $150 billion. Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors. The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

There are more opportunities than ever before and entrepreneurs are basically thriving. Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated. Global economic growth is determined by powerful markets, which are becoming more and more sophisticated.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

He should have invested in Lawson obviously… I could not track back their stock price in 1998 when NetSuite was launched, but since Jan. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. 2002, the stock price went from $17.5 per share to $8.0 Save the planet! Software 2.0:

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Up and Running

MARCH 19, 2018

A growing number of startups are launching with the intention of helping to bring about positive social and environmental changes—they’re social entrepreneurs, or socially responsible companies. These qualities represent an ideological version of a social entrepreneur, not necessarily an exact blueprint. Set milestones.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. MOOCs like Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy have unbundled university content to make education more accessible on a global scale. Ditto for Apple. The Real Question.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. The great promise of the Internet was the ability to break down barriers and allow you to sell products and services globally, benefitting buyer and seller. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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