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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Sharing the stories of organizational failure due to a lack of enterprise innovation can create a sense of urgency in employees and make them understand the stakes. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Let’s dive into these stories.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. The open source movement dramatically reduced the cost and improved the quality of systems software.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. The most obvious change is that now social networks become mobile & “location aware.&# The highest profile brand in this space is FourSquare. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Shechtman, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1941, had previously been awarded the Israel Prize in Physics in 1998 and the Wolf Prize in Physics a year later. Trade with Argentina, on the other hand, only reached $130 million due to high tariffs on Israeli goods there. INTEL BUYS ISRAELI MOBILE NAVIGATION FIRM TELMAP.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. What’s the distraction level from mobile devices? Over-the-air updates for car software will become essential. For example, accelerometers-on-a-chip made airbags possible as they were able to detect a crash in progress.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Social Networking is Becoming Mobile: FourSquare and Skout. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users? The Past (1985-2002). The Present Era.