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The Economic Context in 2004

By Ann Winblad - Stanford
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Lecture Description

According to Winblad, M&A is picking up because companies now feel they can take risks in working with younger companies.  Major corporations also went through a period of downsizing, but are now adding, she notes.

Course Index

  1. Introduction to Hummer Winblad and Mobius Venture Capital
  2. Drivers for Software Innovation
  3. How Consumer Markets and Enterprise Markets Drive the Software Industry
  4. 2004: Start of an Era of Optimism
  5. Trends in Seed and Series A Investing
  6. Hummer Winblad's and Softbank's Recent Investments
  7. VC Words of Wisdom for Entrepreneurs
  8. Keep Testing Your Core Assumptions
  9. Outsourcing Software Development to Asia
  10. Customers are Key
  11. The Economic Context in 2004
  12. The Java Standard (and Competing Technology Standards)
  13. The Threat of Linux to Microsoft
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