Book i borrow that title and thankfully he was still alive and provided a blurb to how to connect those dots. What are your three ways which work. I focus on the internet. The first wave of the internet was getting everyone connected, getting America Online in the world online. We started aol back in 1985, so 32 years ago and only 3 of people were online and they were only online one hour a week. When we said we wanted to create this connect world you would be tough and it took us a decade. Many companies were involved in that in the beginning of that, the first wave essentially no one knew about the internet or care about it but by the year 2000 everyone is connected and couldnt live without it. That set the stage for the second wave which lasted 15 years or so which was building the software and services on top of the internet, google, facebook, twitter. That has defined the second wave. Now we are seeing the third wave pick up speed and that is the internet, integrated much more sea
Thats also the story of the business tests. Companies rise and fall and cities rise and fall. Theres sort of a Natural Evolution of things. So, exactly who the leaders of the pack are in 20 or 30 years its hard to predict that some of them will be new brands that didnt exist 20 years ago. We are trying to level the Playing Field, so they are building these new companies everywhere not just in a few places. Its crazy last year almost 80 of the venturecapital winter just three states, california, new york and massachusetts, 47 states just over 20 of the Venture Capital. , we need to figure out ways to support entrepreneurs everywhere. We even even solace in the recent election people were basically saying i kind of feel left out and left behind. We need to make sure we have a more inclusive innovation economy and we are backing startups creating jobs everywhere not just in a few places like Silicon Valley. I read a statistic, two things. I was surprised Washington State wasnt included an
An entrepreneurs vision of the future. Mister case, this is not the first book known as the third wave. Is not. Ive borrowed the title from the board book wave in 1980. I read that book and i was completely mesmerized by the agricultural revolution being followed by the industrial revolution. He was predicting that for decades ago. The Technology Revolution we are talkingabout, what we now know asthe internet. I knew thats what i wanted to do so it took me a few years to get into that world. When i finally decided to write a book i borrowed that title. He was still alive at the time and has since passed away and provided us a blurb for the book so we closed that circle. What are your three words . I focus on the internet so its the three waves, one way thats coming. The first wave of the internet was getting everybody connected, getting the world online. When we started back in 1985, 32 years ago, only three percent of the people were online and they were only online one hour a week. W
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