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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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. But outside of these cities, China’s mobile market is made up of millions of less affluent consumers who use low-cost Android phones and often don’t have access to high-bandwidth mobile connectivity. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Of all the Chinese innovation programs, Torch is the one that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Yet in expansionary periods, successful leaders spent significantly less on [selling, general, and administrative costs] than did their former peers. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent. billion in 2010. .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. What’s Next in 2012….

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. The Cost Equation for a Startup is Better Than Ever. I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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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. In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Back in 1999, Amazon patented a feature and changed their own process and on-line commerce forever: One-click purchasing, versus re-entering name, address, and credit card information for every transaction. He got even by going viral, so easy to do these days, costing shareholders perhaps $180 million.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Last year, cybersecurity breaches cost businesses around the world $400 billion. The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 The toll on individual businesses is huge, with an average cyberattack in the United States costing $6.5 The statistics don’t lie.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. A Prize Draw is underway, with one lucky winner receiving IdeaKeg Single at no cost.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. Inflation may seem like a neutral thing for a business – your costs may be going up, but your revenue should be going up as well, right? Why should you care?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

The parallels to the music industry are too obvious even though the industry players, the medium and the cost structures are different. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. The last big recession was in the early 90′s where IT and globalization were in their infancy in terms of impact. It’s too early. What gives?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. Now the cost of entry to the Party is rising. New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street. The bull market will celebrate its 5 th anniversary in March (NASDAQ grew 38.3%

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the 2017 article, I wrote “True alpha returns have been difficult to achieve in the globally low interest-rate environment…”. Like him, many retail investors were drawn into nonstop television coverage and headlines that were (to me, scarily) reminiscent of 1999. Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Has he randomly cost you a small fortune in unintended consequences? Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Are you often tempted to give him just one more try? Are you allowing your soft heart to guide your logic? Would you say “NO!”

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

With 17% or less of the global semiconductor fabrication infrastructure physically in the U.S., and with inherent cost disadvantages relative to international competition in the pricing of IC’s, hardware assurance for critical infrastructure in the U.S. “ WESLEY K.

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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. This does not mean that all existing intermediaries go away. Regulation will come.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2012 she was announced as one of the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. A lot of great minds have amazing products and ideas but not the right (global) network. I am a global citizen, and I understand the global marketplace. My global network, for sure. Women in business are on the rise.

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Bryce Dot VC

MAY 1, 2013

At that time, cell phones cost $2,000 and calls were 50 cents a minute. I didn’t get my first mobile phone until 1999. In 2012 global mobile penetration hit 91%. Mine is the one of the poster boy of wealth clutching his massive brick of a mobile phone while brokering another million dollar deal.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Your best bet is probably taking an existing market and serving a portion of it better than the competition, through lower cost or a different set of features. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Don’t spend time and money on getting the word out about your product beyond what you need to do discovery and validation.

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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 year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Akamai: The Present.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

companies pay more to intermediaries for the same service, because it will still cost them less than paying the higher tax burden imposed by the Congress. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness. In effect, the unintended consequence will be to permanently keep these assets offshore and make U.S. Share and Enjoy:

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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.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999). I believe, their results speak for themselves. This is a method we utilize at some of our enterprise clients.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Typically this includes the mortgage, property taxes, and management costs (if the investor decides to hire a property management company). He was only 27 at this point!

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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. The High Cost of Free. While many of our digital services (like Facebook and Google) are free, they come with real costs. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. But when the web 2.0

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

We’ll talk statistics, amenities, cost, and how to know if coworking is right for you. However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. Let’s dive in: - What is coworking?

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