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Feb
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Apple iPhone share of all phone units, revenues and profits (via First: Apple’s rank in mobile phone profitability and revenues | asymco)

Apple iPhone share of all phone units, revenues and profits (via First: Apple’s rank in mobile phone profitability and revenues | asymco)

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Apple Inc - today, the world’s most valuable technology corporation - went public at a valuation of just $1.19 billion in 1980, equivalent to 25 times revenue and 102 times earnings. Google - to which Facebook is most often measured against in terms of potential - was valued at $23 billion at the time of its 2004 debut, or 218 times earnings.
Tags: facebook   internet   entrepreneurship   apple   google   ipo  
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Oct
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Sep
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Industrial vs Information Age

Today Fred Wilson writes:

We are crossing a huge chasm from an industrial society to an information society. And there is immense pain in that transformation.

Absolutely true. To have a measure of how painful that transformation will be, take a look at this table comparing employees and shareholders value.

Information age companies created 10x capital value (market cap) with 0.4x labor (number of employees) when compared to industrial age companies.

Tags: entrepreneurship   tech   apple   google   microsoft   zynga   facebook   foursquare   groupon   GM   ford   Chrysler   Tesla Motors  
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Aug
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We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ

After reading The Fountainhead I see references everywhere I look.

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Jul
23rd
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Very entertaining and insightful presentation by Roger McNamee (technology private equity guru and rock musician, Silver Lake and Elevation Partners founder)

(Source: fora.tv)

Tags: technology   private equity   venture capital   elevation partners   apple   microsoft   html5   facebook   google  
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Jul
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Now look at the dominant players in each succession – IBM (1960-1985), DEC (1965-1980), Microsoft (1987-2003), Google (2000-2010), Facebook (2007-?). That’s 25 years, 15 years, 15 years, 10 years, and how long will Facebook reign supreme? Not 15 years and I don’t think even 10. I give Facebook seven years or until 2014 to peak.
Tags: facebook   apple   google   ibm   microsoft   internet  
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Jul
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iPad is a nice $6 billion per quarter business vs $5 billion Mac sales (via Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac – SplatF)

iPad is a nice $6 billion per quarter business vs $5 billion Mac sales (via Just like that, the iPad is already bigger than the Mac – SplatF)

Tags: apple   ipad   mac  
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May
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Apple profit per employee is 25% higher than Google’s and 70% higher than Microsoft’s (via Royal Pingdom: Apple staff raking in the cash: 9,528 profit per head)

Apple profit per employee is 25% higher than Google’s and 70% higher than Microsoft’s (via Royal Pingdom: Apple staff raking in the cash: 9,528 profit per head)

Tags: internet   google   apple   microsoft   profits   finance   employees  
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