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Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

TechCrunch

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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Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Cuban back web3 project tool Thirdweb

TechCrunch

“Look at what happened from 1995 to 2000 on the ‘internet’ and use that history lesson to deploy how much will be ‘fixed’ in web3 over the next half decade. Web3 is happening and NFTs are here for the rest of our collective lives,” Vaynerchuk said via email.

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CIOs’ top 2025 goal? Turning around IT’s sagging reputation

CIO

Macroeconomically, data indicates that IT spending since 2000 has increased 130%, while GDP has only increased 29%. At the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo 2024 in Barcelona, attendees were told that “on average, only 48% of digital initiatives meet or exceed business outcome targets.” Putting technology in the hands of end-users is not enough.

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25 years of Wi-Fi: A quarter century of Broadcom innovation

CIO

Like the internet and computer, Wi-Fi has woven itself into the fabric of our daily lives for more than two decades. From 1999 to the early 2000’s, there were no Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, only a small number of laptops equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity. million Wi-Fi enabled devices shipped in 2000.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Slashing churn rates, visa side hustles, YC S22 Demo Day faves

TechCrunch

Twitter Space: What can today’s founders learn from the 2000 dotcom bubble burst? In 2000, many high-flying internet startups turned into smoking craters. . — TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) September 9, 2022. A Gen Z VC speaks up: Why Gen Z VCs are trash. Image Credits: Chris Hondros (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Qualcomm Ventures invests in four 5G startups

TechCrunch

billion and made 360 investments since its launch in 2000. In total, Qualcomm Ventures has deployed $1.5 Some of the more successful companies the firm has invested in include unicorns like Zoom, Cloudflare, Xiaomi, Cruise Automation and Fitbit.

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John Carmack Biography

The Crazy Programmer

His company developed various shareware and Internet Distribution Channels that brought a revolution in the field of computer games and how they were sold. John married Catherine Anna Kang in 2000. Quake offered multiplayer gaming on the internet. John Carmack is an American programmer and a video game developer.

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