A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Technology & Infrastructure. Another is continuity or compatibility with existing technology. But also things like founders splitting up, not getting enough traction to self-fund or to secure the next round of financing, having to go back to a day job, and so on. Managing 10,000 virtual servers in the Cloud Era sounds easy.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

government dataset compiled by the U.S. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. warned a technology forum this week that without a change in U.S. government policy ‘thenext big thing will not be invented here. Census Bureau. Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. Is Government a good idea? Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Yahoo Finance. at 4:04 PM.

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. The third is high gross margins.

Cofounder 28

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. It turned out that there was!

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. The Chilean government recently announced a bold initiative that stands apart from the usual innovation and start-up handwaving.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

The force is bloated with overtime and over-policing in some areas, like the performative anti-terrorist presence on the Brooklyn Bridge that should get replaced with technology and under policing in others, like when it comes to curbing gun trafficking. That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. Bike lanes.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. Welcome, Logout.

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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.

Global 31

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. While labeled the “dot.com” bubble, valuations went crazy across a wide range of technology sectors including telecommunications, enterprise software and biotech, not just the Internet. They finance companies that invest in new technologies, new ideas and new products.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

“Provigent is a unique asset with world-class microwave backhaul technology and strong engineering talent developing innovative and highly integrated semiconductor solutions for the microwave segment.&# – Rajiv Ramaswami, executive VP at Broadcom. LEADING SECURITY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY MCAFEE ACQUIRES ISRAEL’S SENTRIGO.

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79

Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator. None of this is new or recent.

Bootstrapping 60

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

It appears as though consumer demand is motivating businesses to become more sustainable which is reinforced by government green tax breaks for energy-efficient SMEs. It pays to be on the ball about what new technology is filtering into your sector, what trends are appearing and how they are being adopted (or perhaps not being adopted).

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. If you don’t focus and learn how to create a company that makes real money – you won’t create anything interesting / lasting / meaningful. That’s your call.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Today, while most of the money remains in the hands of the richest 1% of Americans, technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands, crafting their own livelihoods – creating, in effect, a Bottom Up economic revolution. Technology as the Great Enabler. Trends Have Been Happening.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 26, 2018

Prohibition of the technology. Let’s not forget that bitcoin is not a coin in itself; the Bitcoin Code is a technology, a code on people’s private computers. No democratic government will ever ban technology. By their nature, governments must protect innovation. Bitcoin in totalitarian governments.

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Government North Korea China Technology 74

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Can BlazeMeter’s technology also be applied to protect the site if an attack occurs? Back in 2000 I followed the traditional VC trail, raised a lot of money to build (with a cofounder) one of the first interactive advertising companies. VC Cafe: Tell me about a technology that excited you recently. Alon: Excellent point!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. I thought I would come and there would be just massive buildings, really like technology infrastructure and squeeze everybody. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. They are businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well.

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