2000 Developer Forecast Internet 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
It can be difficult to forecast the future trajectory of publicly listed technology companies, especially in the short term – after all, most of the available information is already capitalized in their current share prices. Take software developers as an example. Today, Oracle has 40,000 workers in the United States and 66,000 abroad.
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The Equity Kicker
MAY 6, 2016
Good VCs need to be good forecasters. We need to predict which companies are going to succeed and second guess future trends so we can develop our firms to stay ahead of the curve. cautious in their forecasts. cautious in their forecasts. open minded. sceptical of deterministic theories. embrace complexity. reflective.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 22, 2012
We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 28, 2009
My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. We were hot.
Hearpreneur
MARCH 16, 2018
After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Photo Credit: Rob Kessler. I always loved languages. 18- Freedom.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.
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