ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. Figuring out who you’re going to sell your product to, and building the distribution for it also takes time. The architecture and technology will have to evolve over time.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. It’s one that many venture capital–funded startups deploy. Technological innovation is a disrupter.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). 1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. TECHNOLOGY. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. It was 1999. And how do you do that?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations. So originally the customer was the Department of Defense.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. You can’t have the NYT suing you or griping all the time, because, at the end of the day, you need them for distribution. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Shalom Simhon met Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming vowing to to expand economic, trade and technological cooperation between the two countries. Chen also met Israeli President Shimon Peres who highlighted the key role of technology innovation in economic development of Israel and China.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Of course our great technology industry did itself rise on the back of infrastructure created by telecommunications & cable infrastructure as well as decades of media production. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.

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