thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

But rather than being on a public text chat, the user has an option to “form a private room” and invite friends via a social network or a direct link. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. Sceenic is based in London.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. But in the 1990s, Nokia pared down to simply focus on telecommunications, including networking equipment, personal computers, IT equipment, and the product they are most famous for today, mobile phones.

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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 reason is simple: network effects. Metcalfe’s law states that a network’s power is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. But when the web 2.0 Even if you wanted to. Natural Monopolies.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans. But failing to make the transition from pirate to navy can lead to disaster.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

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. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

Successful companies grow out of an ecosystem and network of support, and that includes mentors, investors and role models. When I helped launch NYCSeed with Owen Davis a couple of years ago, the goal was to provide this network of support in addition to seed funding.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. So the shift from buying a lot of servers and databases and software licenses and networking equipment, the shift instead to just renting it all. And then small businesses start to use it.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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