Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

This growth could be a function of product differentiation, go-to-market operations, sheer market size, new geographies, and expansion into adjacent categories. When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B. Not too shabby!

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, 62% of working Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force, with real power and influence, for at least nine more years, to 2020. In terms of job creation, innovation, and productivity, entrepreneurs drive growth.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work. And you work productively, shocked at the sheer amount of work you accomplish when you’re liberated from the distractions of home. If you put up walls, there’s no point.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was. That would drop the total price under $10,000 by 2020, a reasonable luxury car option. Even ten years ago, most of us couldn’t imagine a self-driving car.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The UN’s 2004 “Who Cares Wins” report was a major milestone, but it wasn’t until The Paris Agreement in 2015 that ESG took center stage, pushing companies to focus on environmental impact. As a result, the EU calls for a global ban on certain plastic products to combat pollution.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2014

Phuket’s western beaches, thankfully, have recovered from the extensive damage they suffered during the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, the catastrophe that also ravaged many other coastal communities around the Indian Ocean and claimed the lives of over 230,000 people in fourteen countries. And that demand is expected to continue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

And so, when we said that jokingly, Nadja diligently started going through the literature research, and in five minutes pulled up a paper saying, "Well, here's a paper that shows that during the SARS outbreak in 2004, niclosamide was actually a very potent inhibitor of viral replication." But I think that, again, this is hindsight being 2020.

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