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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

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. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I see opportunities for disruption all around me and am meeting amazingly talented entrepreneurs. Have a cushion.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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. For this reason one of the most important companies for me at TC Disrupt was Datasift. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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5 noteworthy startup-led trends of the 21st century that transformed industries | Propel(x)

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Deep tech refers to scientific or engineering innovations that disrupt existing industries through years of research, patent application, and other forms of intellectual property. SpaceX , which was founded in 2002, has had 164 total launches and 126 landings of reusable rockets.

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In the News: Coronavirus, industry reinvention & venture capital

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Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. That’s a very good entry point for new venture investors.

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

TechCrunch

As a 2020 Wall Street Journal piece points out, while computer-aided software became the norm in the ’70s and ’80s, it wasn’t until 2002 that 3D modeling arrived with Autodesk’s purchase of building information modeling (BIM) software vendor Revit. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt.

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Music in the Metaverse: Harmony from Discord?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

But in the background, some excellent use cases for NFTs were being tried, including something that will disrupt how we consume music. Now, instead of boring people over dinner (as I’m prone to do) about how you saw the first dubstep pioneers in Brixton back in 2002, you have an NFT to prove it.

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There’s no single path to entrepreneurial success

Innovation 2 Enterprise

4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). Maybe a good thing for us all to remember in these recent months of disruption is that even in decades of accelerating change, some things stay the same.