This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

It took the NASDAQ fifteen years to get back to it''s March 2000 peak--and I think that it''s possible we''re looking ahead at the same kind of period, but one without the huge trough. Innovation continues to disrupt older industries, create opportunities, and create new streams of revenue. They''ll be around 10 years from now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Wouldn’t we be a bit hypocritical if we talked with entrepreneurs about innovation and change but we weren’t willing to take it on ourselves? Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! But then the truth sets in.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. On March 20, 2000, Barron's wrote, "America's 371 publicly traded Internet companies have grown to the point that they are collectively valued at $1.3 This brings to mind a bigger question of where we're going from here.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Focus on new and innovative methods to work digitally. Companies in developed markets have churned out profits at a historic pace, despite massive economic dislocations like the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and the global financial crisis eight years later. At the same time, every organization must innovate.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

I've been very lucky over the last six years of being involved in the NYC innovation community to meet some fantastic folks. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 28, 2022

Originally a computational physicist who spent many long nights at a particle accelerator, since 2000 Paul inspired thousands of people to innovate, help hundreds of startups launch, overseen investments in 50+ startups and held leadership positions in the national angel investor community. Your Instructor.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 21, 2011

If there’s a jobs startup within 2000 miles of NYC, I will see it. This is where the most innovative companies are playing, and so if you’ve formed a good team around it, that has value to someone. Don’t get me wrong—there are undoubtedly ways to innovate in this space—but don’t expect to make money on them anytime soon.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

The even bigger issue to making home automation ubiquitous is cost: Since 2000, the cost of homes has outpaced household income in all but the years 2007–2012. Develop an innovation that helps them avoid a perceived pain and saves them money and you have a potentially sustainable innovation.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2010

RSVP: [link] Wednesday, January 20th EVENT OF THE WEEK: 7PM Kevin Ryan & Henry Blodget: NYTech -10 +10 @ 92Y Tribecca The city's enhancement-free version of the "Bash Brothers" talk NYC Tech in 2000, 2010, and 2020. what is changing/what isn't -- what are we willing to bet on, and where are the wildcards.

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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. Enter the huge innovation in AJAX (asynchronous Javascript and XML), which let us redraw individual portions of the screen and therefore mimic user behavior on on-premise applications. We would herald in a new era of innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

I'm a huge fan of this innovation. But now you can learn the origins first hand on this YouTube video as well as how to approach them, how they make decisions and what innovations they've introduced. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. and Half.com.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back. Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. On the other hand, startup founders who fall into the majority can increase creativity and innovation by diversifying their workforce, and doing so as early as possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But the critical distinction in the direction of both companies was that while MySpace was putting up moats to keep outside companies from innovating and making money off their backs, Facebook took the opposite approach. That way other companies innovate on their own shekels (or at least a VCs) and let the best man win.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

He’s behind IdeaLab and has created many interesting companies including innovating in solar energy ( eSolar ) and electric cars ( Aptera ). I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. (plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. PLUS RELATED FUNDING ….

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2021

Since that era, hedge funds have innovated roughly every decade or so. The dot-com bubble in 2000 ravaged many of the winners in the 80s and 90s, including Julian Robertson’s Tiger Global, another major global macro investor on par with Soros' Quantum Fund. More Money than God illuminates each epoch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. That’s unprecedented in Rustand’s life, too. You’ve probably never felt anything like this,” Rustand says. But we’ve all dealt with things that felt new and terrible at the time. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis. Think of the challenges you’ve already faced,” Rustand says.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs. The goal was to create innovations outside of MySpace and then MySpace would acquire them at pre-agreed prices based on how well they performed. This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable. Enter Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Thus we see lots of movement from Google, Verizon, HTC, Dell, HP and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. So this raises the question: what now? What should founders aim for in 2024? This is the year for growth-stage companies to become Great. And the best way to become Great is to refocus on generating fast growth.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 13, 2022

The rising tide of innovation raises all our boats. One sure path is to increase innovation. Innovation is a long game. Nathan Seidle, a 2000 graduate of OSSM and founder of SparkFun , puts it well. It causes us to innovate. The rising tide of innovation wherever it happens, raises all our boats. STEM Value.

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Continuations

OCTOBER 10, 2020

There are many confounding factors, but the one I am most interested in is innovation. Then in 1900 again even if you had allowed for significant further acceleration you would have likely put 2000 at maybe 30-some% instead of the 47% that actually occurred. In retrospect it is easy to know how how innovation upended extrapolation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Early-stage companies are innovating new artificial intelligence-based solutions, but they often face questions as to whether such technology can be protected and the best strategy for doing so. The considerations below will be useful for companies trying to understand the opportunities to protect their innovation. In 2000, the U.S.

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Feedough

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Though this stage poses the least amount of pressure on an entrepreneur, some mistakes can still upend an innovative startup idea. Blade Years: The blade years lasted for at least 3 years from 1997 to 2000, where its revenue was around 1.5 Usually, founders haven’t quit their jobs at this stage.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Of course, such crowdsourcing would have to be intrastate, limiting the cash innovative startups could potentially find within a more restricted region. Many of the startups that crowdsource are driven by passion or innovation rather than raw profits. will increase from 3.5 million to 233.7

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The last two decades have seen explosive advancement in biomedical and therapeutic innovations, like the Human Genome Project , the discovery of CRISPR , and the rapid development of Covid-19 mRNA vaccines, to name a few. This rapid innovation has been fueled by an unprecedented amount of investment.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Generation Y (1981-2000) = 35%. Generation Z are the newest additions to the workforce and are described as universal, innovative and open-minded as well as those who value diversity, individuality, creativity and personalization. Supporting multigenerational workforces. Baby boomers (1946- 1964) = 25%. Generation X (1965-1980) = 33%.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Speeding up that first part of the operation with technology can bring down the cost and accelerate innovation and change. The company made a huge deal with IBM recently where IBM plans on training 10,000 consultants worldwide to use Celonis tooling.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Ironically, the same report also reveals that current corporate commitment to innovation has been decreasing as CEOs prioritize their core business in the wake of Covid-19.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I’ve taken many wrong turns, but each path taught me to better navigate the world of entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership. Mike started working at Vector Marketing in 2000 as a student at Boston College. I hope they’re enjoying my money; you can’t rely on artists to build a brand that doesn’t exist.

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

So, I wrote to a number of my former students who’d launched ventures during 1999 and 2000—almost all of which failed when nuclear winter set in. The world needs entrepreneurs like you to create jobs and produce the kind of innovation we need to solve society’s problems. I asked them: Do you regret founding your startup?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Here are four startup myths that hold innovation back. Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. On the other hand, startup founders who fall into the majority can increase creativity and innovation by diversifying their workforce, and doing so as early as possible.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His main innovation is to write small notes that cross-reference each other. Many years ago, I used VoodooPad, a freeware Mac app in the early 2000 that also works. Nklas Luhmann invented an idea that’s taking off in many academic circles and beyond called Zettlekasten.

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