2004 innovation opportunity 
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It has the diversity and cheaper rent necessary for great creative potential and I think you're going to see a lot of development next year of Brooklyn as its own unique, but complimentary community of innovation.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 2, 2023
The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted. Technology has already made the world pretty efficient.
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NZ Entrepreneur
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Maria King’s governance career has focused on supporting and building innovative new businesses, so when she undertook the Institute of Directors ’ Advanced Directors Course (ADC) , she was delighted to see a section on startup governance included. If it has that beautiful mix, alongside growing and scaling opportunities, then I’m happy.
This is going to be BIG.
MARCH 30, 2015
Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public.
Paul G. Silva
MARCH 25, 2025
Redesigning for Reality Once I accepted the brutal facts, we transformed the organization: We shifted our purpose : From helping sophisticated investors find deals to helping new angels learn how to invest successfully.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. 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.
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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