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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m convinced that you can learn more from failure than success, so it pays to take these as lessons to improve your success odds before you start: Creating a new technology doesn’t make a business. Despite the technology, the fears of pedestrians and government regulations strangled the business.

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5 Stages In Leading Paradigm Shift Levels Of Change

Startup Professionals Musings

A refrain I often hear from technology entrepreneurs to investors is that their product or solution is so innovative that it will cause a “paradigm shift” in the industry. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

Here’s a look at three factors fueling investor interest in Colombia’s technology startups. Colombia is an attractive market for technology companies. In 2002, the city established Medellín ACI at (Medillín ACI.org), is the Agency for Investment and Cooperation. A growing, increasingly connected consumer base.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

Both Sides of the Table

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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The Great Coding School Rollup of 2015

Feld Thoughts

I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002. My first company, Feld Technologies, was bought by AmeriData, which bought 40 companies in three years.

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Reinventing Austin Women in Technology

SiliconHills

BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The way advisory board member Sherry Lowry remembers it, Austin Women in Technology used to be the one place in Austin where women with the audacity to infiltrate the Old Geeks network—and women intrigued by technology—could converge. When it started, in 2002, it was fueled by the [.]

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