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. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2020

Schuchat also served as director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases from 2006-2015 and Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch from 1998-2005. Globally, she has worked on meningitis, pneumonia and Ebola vaccine trials in West Africa, and conducted surveillance and prevention projects in South Africa.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. 2019 Global Games Market – Newzoo. Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2012

Viljakainen, author of “ No Fear: Business Leadership for the Digital Age “ In 1998, I sold part of my company (which I had founded in 1986, when I was 13) to the Finnish IT services firm Tieto. But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. The best score was 100; I had started out, in 1998, in the 90s. by Pekka A.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2019

I came to the United States in 1998 as a Turkish immigrant with my husband Serhat Pala. In 2008, she established Confirm BioSciences, a global leader in quality diagnostic health & wellness testing solutions. Perhaps some of my focus on diversity comes from my own background.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Nick Clegg, Meta’s President of Global Affairs. For example, in 1998, Prof. My take – don’t throw the baby with the bath water. This release showed that the bar with consumers is high, but nevertheless they are innovating in relatively new territory.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G. By 2035, 5G applications will add $12 trillion annually to the global economy , 5G technology development partner Qualcomm predicts. 3G: Opening Up the App Market. This ultimately increased to 7.2

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

billion acquisition by Apollo Global, Rackspace Tuesday announced it is cutting 6 percent of its U.S. Founded in 1998, Rackspace is one of San Antonio’s largest technology companies with about 5,000 employees worldwide. Three months after its $4.3

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). And, for the last category (the shares I own personally), I still use the long-term formulaic approach I came up with in 1998.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 1998, I was working at Netscape, which owned well over half of the browser market. Much like Yahoo once lifted the valuable bits out of America Online (AOL; the US internet company), made them global, and became far more valuable than AOL, Netflix is lifting the valuable bits out of the cable business and making them global.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. The Funding Problem. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

years in 1998 to 9.6 The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. I smiled when some asked if they were too late to enter the sector.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

The coolest season was 2003, but now 1998 takes that category. These include this year, the year with the most accumulated GDD (1997), the year with the least accumulated GDD (1998), and the 21-year average. Growing degree days are still a little behind last year, but we are catching up. Today, 1997 is the leader.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Paris, November 1998. Global warming: a plague for humanity? Global Warning! Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Saturday, December 09, 2006. McKinsey highlight #1: the art of cost cutting or how to save 70m with a measuring spoon. Save the planet!

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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. How different today!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. With the help of their marketing agency, Just Media, Lumension, a global leader in endpoint security software, realized greater potential and effectiveness with their retargeting campaigns.

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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. John Noel founded Travel Guard in his basement with a 0% market share.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. Nielsen reports that two-thirds of global consumers will pay more for sustainable products. But you don’t control its interpretation.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998?

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

If you have the time and resources, A/B testing different layouts and designs can yield excellent results and insights (needless to say, this holds true globally, by the way, not just for recommendations). Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

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. Over the last decade, Dan has served on more than a dozen public and private company boards.

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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.), In 2005, he and Keywell started Echo Global Logistics, a business-to-business online logistics and trucking firm that they took public in 2008. but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 22, 2010

American universities geared up first: by 1970 America was producing just under a third of the world’s university students and half of its science and technology PhDs at that time it had only 6% of the global population. Since then America’s annual output of PhDs has doubled, to 64,000. Other countries are catching up.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The company is also known for being a great employer, making Fortune magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list every year since 1998. Niketown is the retail name for global athletic brand Nike, and their stores have been popping up around the world since the first opened in 1990 in downtown Portland, Ore. Whole Foods.

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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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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

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present. How did Akamai do it? . .

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. After a long research done on the market, I realized that there aren’t many vendors offering to monitor both local and global news sources at the same time. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. The position of the airplane no longer uses ground radio stations, but rather is determined by Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites or autonomous inertial reference units. This feature was finally required in 2013.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

In closing, I’m not saying there isn’t some room for Old-School Management Philosophy that was pertinent after we reduced our Industrialization Era competition to rubble (Germany and Japan), but we live in a different world and a different Global Economy today – let’s keep our eye on the ball. Browse Articles by Tag.

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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. Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. Second, when Brant and I founded Bazaarvoice there were only three retailers in the US with customer reviews. It worked, big time.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re going to school with somewhere between 200 to 800 people who are going to be future global business leaders; these relationships can be enormously valuable. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009).

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