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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business. Later, as you scale the business, is the time to add products or service offerings that customers demand to make the business more robust.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

revenue were the correct valuations since these are generally 5% to 10% net income businesses that are 30% – 40% gross margin and heavily dependent on (a) transitory labor and (b) favorable supply/demand conditions. I’d argue the 0.5x But let’s go back a little further in time. Anyone remember the web hosting rollup?

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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

The software directs humans and trucks to balance the tide of idle bicycles to other areas of a city where the demand is higher at the moment, rather than humans directing software. Way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos at Amazon issued an ultimatum to completely institute internal APIs within the company, and later to their millions of suppliers.

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Modi and Ma

thebarefootvc

This populace will also have a pent-up demand for goods and services, and an on-the-ground familiarity of market opportunities in these markets. Enter Modi. Like Ma, he comes from humble beginnings (he was born to a tea seller in a poor rural family).

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Ninja Moves from a Secret Marketing Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

Implement a consistent demand generation engine. 2) Understand the Power of Demand (versus lead) Generation. The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. Key Elements to Brand Relevancy.

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How The 5G Revolution Emerged And How It Will Give Business A Boost

YoungUpstarts

3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. 3G: Opening Up the App Market. Achieving this required much faster connection speeds than the 56 Kbps limits of 2G.