Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. These ideas can grow quickly into real products.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

Thanks to assistance from SBIR-funded research, iRobot was able to conquer the thorny challenge of moving a project from the demonstration stage to a marketable and profitable product. In 2000, when a slowdown in the industry forced a sharp refocusing of the company’s efforts, UEC enlisted the SBDC in helping expand into federal contracting.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 18, 2022

While the Gen Z and millennial populations have a few differences, what they have in common is their love for technology. The right technology will be an incentive to recruit younger generations to work with your nonprofit. The millennial generation was born between 1980 and 2000. We’ll look at them one at a time. Millennials.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Other social networking, online marketing, clean-tech and bio-tech companies have fallen out of favor with some investors, fueling speculation regarding the future of the US technology sector. A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. Global Demand.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 5, 2022

Chances are your internet connection is something you haven’t given much thought since you signed up with your provider. However, taking a moment to think about if you are getting the most out of your internet can be a game changer in terms of your capacity to do business. Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $200M in 260 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. Compared to today, technology was used by a very small group of people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

A disruptive product causes such a large market shift that entire companies collapse (the ones who don't "get it") and new markets appear. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. 3) Exchanges + HFTs. At least not yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. The top quartile funds have performed well.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. Since then, this name has served me well, allowing me to change services and products along the way without rebranding. Inty is a word my friends and I used as kids for the internet. We wanted to say no to Tingo!

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Over the weekend Chris Dixon wrote the following in a post about her work and his view on where the opportunities for innovation will most likely come going forward: Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Innovation in the installation period is in the core technologies (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Smart companies are always looking to make their current products better – and there are many ways to do this. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There’s no single answer but one important strategy for keeping data private and secure on major holidays and beyond is to focus on people, not just on technologies. While technology is essential for protecting data, internal challenges can play a large role in data breaches. What’s the solution? Inside Job.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

What will the future of InfoComm Technology (ICT) be like? Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

The thing is, a tech startup or any type of startup for that matter (doesn’t have to be technology focussed) and a traditional, new business venture, are different for a number of reasons, most notably: the way they think about growth. Your product or service has a huge market. A really big market, ideally in the realm of millions.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the technology world there are a few websites that most startups track to keep up with the latest financings, acquisitions, product announcements and gossip: BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOm, etc. There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe Lichtman, the man once in charge of all of Microsoft’s technology development in Israel, says that the time has come to build a billion dollar Israeli company. Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Social media and web data.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. You’re unlikely to want to make this sort of investment with the product or the market not yet validated.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Is a completed product necessary to get funding? Mark comments on the importance of being able to ship product. and Half.com.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And I was blessed to receive many awards for our product too. I started my business, Eco-Bags Products in 1989 for three key reasons. Thanks to Sharon Rowe, Eco-Bags Products ! #4- I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. So Snuggwugg was invented. There are valleys and a lot of ditches.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. Second, it has become far more convenient and cost-effective to learn about something new (or to shop) using the internet, versus attending a day-long seminar at the Marriott or flying to a trade show in Las Vegas.

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