Xconomy
MAY 21, 2019
Sebastian Thrun first made his mark on autonomous vehicle development at the dawn of that industry, when he led a Stanford team whose robot car Stanley won the $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 by racing driverless through the Mojave Desert for 132 miles.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 16, 2012
He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company. Enter Eric Ries .
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2011
That would also give them one, unified platform for Facebook on the web, mobile tablet platforms, and so on, so that every time they release a new version of their platform it will work on every mobile phone, whether that was Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 12, 2010
Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Content, of course, is the same!]. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
And of course the funding problem coincided with the stock market correction that took away most exit options for years to come. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
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