Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The moderator asked each of us panelists the asinine question, “tell us what you’re doing about WAP!&# (you know, as in “tell us what you’re doing about China?&# Apple wants to take a major share of the revenue. or “tell us what you’re doing about location-based services?&# ). It came to me.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

million in revenue the year before. . Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. That world is called China. Even in China. Many of us argued at the time that the browsers would get more powerful and we bet our companies on that by not developing client applications. And I believe that people over time and given a choice rally around openness.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. And Iridium would do this without building a single cell tower. With an out-of-this-world business plan. First, the company bought a fleet of 15 rockets from Russia, the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. stock market."

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. That’s the good news.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

China has already made moves to massively curtain Bitcoin activities so that should be a clue of what is to come. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. But when the web 2.0

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. A Wired article entitled “Will 2014 Be the Year the Tech Bubble Bursts?” First Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching.

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