YoungUpstarts
MAY 20, 2019
percent in 1998 to 7.7 The Y2K and its resulting impact has transformed the nation into the product builders, managers and marketers – and what is to say the same thing cannot happen with SaaS? Better communication and outsourcing options further the case for India to take over the growing SaaS market. percent in 2017.
Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. A story tells market need way better than general market numbers.
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Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Berkeley Pizza: from pizza in the farmer's market to a sit-down restaurant. One example is in their marketing, which in today's environment requires providing value. This doesn't mean pointing to the product and describing the product's value, but rather the marketing provides value itself. Lean Startup has gone mainstream.
Seeing Both Sides
JULY 21, 2014
In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. At Flybridge, we have added "business model", with a particularly weighting towards recurring models with high gross margins, as one of the important evaluation criteria when we make investment decisions alongside market and team, which are the two canonical criteria for all venture capital firms.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. iridium satellite network.
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