View from Seed
DECEMBER 4, 2019
One of the things I pointed out in my prior post was that even though the 2007 vintage was 10 years old, the vast majority of the value was still unrealized. If we compare the 2007 vintage data today vs. what we looked at 2 years ago, it gives us a sense of how much liquidity that vintage has enjoyed in the last couple years.
Transformify
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Nairobi, the capital of Nigeria, is often pointed out as the birth place of the so-called Silicon Savanah which gave the rise to the Africa’s tech scene between 2007 and 2010.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. The result? Great short-term gains but long-term prospects for Microsoft are far less compelling.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. The result? Great short-term gains but long-term prospects for Microsoft are far less compelling.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 10, 2019
The PSI-Pay Company started being functional in the year 2007 as it helped the business community in the world. PSI Pay got licensed as a payments institution by the Financial Service Authority in 2007. Interestingly, the firm has since 2014, been offering the MasterCard services directly all over the United Kingdom.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 10, 2019
In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community. And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable.
VC Cafe
MAY 29, 2014
billion for 2014. In April 2014 Facebook acquired the maker of Moves app, which is also part of this trend, called by many the ‘Quantified Self’. The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. And over half of those players spend more than an hour a day playing.
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