Saturday, November 16, 2013

Billion-Dollar Software Companies

The Next 50 Ideas for Billion-Dollar Software Companies | LinkedIn

Since Netscape's public offering in 1995, more than 6,500 pure Internet companies have raised venture capital. But only 18 are worth more than $1 billion. Thirty years after the software revolution started, only 12 of the Fortune 500 are pure software companies.



As Netscape founder Marc Andreesen observed in his 2011 essay, "Why Software Is Eating the World," software is probably the most powerful lever for change the world has ever seen.

real world is in some cases becoming more virtual. But what's more important now is that the virtual world is becoming real




a conclusion: to make software (virtual) a big (and important) business, merge it with real (physical) business.
There are many real-world problems that can significantly benefit from software.

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