These days, it may be easier to raise startup money than it was during the boom. No, it doesn't seem that way. But that's a perception promulgated by precarious or now deceased startups. The companies founded two or three years ago have been struggling with the assumption that follow-on investments would be as easy to get as the initial funding, ... They're not getting the follow-on funding, and so they're telling people that VCs don't want to spend. We do, but more on the traditional companies missed during the dot-com bubble.
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We started up the company with a goal of building a real company, unlike so many Internet Bubble startups that seemed to take the attitude of let's get mind share, and we'll figure out a way to make money later.
Symantec is a big buyer. The acquisitions have been critical not just to Symantec, which has been using it to stay ahead in the game, but also for the ecosystem of startups that the MA strategy helps sustain.
They're one of the most impressive nanotechnology startups we've ever met up with, ... They've aimed for good, high value, low volume applications where they can charge a very, very large premium, as a way to get manufacturing volumes to a point to attack other opportunities. They've generally taken a very smart and informed approach.
There is tremendous market opportunity in the Linux server industry for startups who can fill a niche. The key will be for these startups to show that there is a real cost benefit to Linux over Windows and Unix.
These are not passive investors. These companies are actively involved in Internet startups' management portfolio.
Continuous protection should be a feature of any viable data-protection solution. A number of these startups out there either, frankly, will go away or be acquired, because that kind of functionality will be coming to a larger data-protection solution.
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The window of opportunity for Internet startups to get in before the big guys is closed in most cases. There's a difference these days from the heady early days. The cost of entry is getting higher by the week, and the venture-capital firms are more rigorous about their funding decisions.
That modesty has worked well for the 47-year-old Bodenheimer, and ESPN has flourished in his seven years at the helm. Sure, the ESPN he inherited had already extended itself from TV to print, the Internet, and other platforms. And its smart-aleck, testosterone-laden culture was already a trademark. But Bodenheimer's vision of his company, where he started in the mailroom, is as a ubiquitous sports network -- and more. To really understand ESPN, you need to see it as a cluster of feisty, creative enterprises under one killer brand. Its units, spread out mostly over offices in Connecticut, New York, and Los Angeles, act like startups, full of passionate staffers who are given the freedom to drive forward but always with a mission to keep the customers (rabid and tech-savvy fans like themselves) happy. Bodenheimer realizes ESPN has to be fast-paced, ... In his realm, if you stand still you're dead.
Sure, domain expertise is required in any market, ... But startups in financial services face the same problems as any other technology company and need the same company-building skills that traditional VCs have to offer.
The economy definitely will suffer if the rate of small business startups tapers off.
Tom has been a very effective advocate for the redistribution of resources for business startups. I would certainly say that many of us who are traditional practitioners of economic development become too narrowly focused on business recruitment when in fact the lion's share of jobs are generated through existing industry expansions and new business.
Everyday we work with existing businesses, business startups, business relocation, tourism and legislation, and many issues that could have a major impact on your business if not dealt with early on. Our job as your chamber is to help create and protect an economically sound community so you can focus on growing your business.
It looks to me that Microsoft has added another layer of bureaucracy. At a time when startups are starting to show some real promise again, Microsoft now looks even bigger and potentially slower than it was before.