Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. Was this a function of “too much money chasing too few deals” as many pundits claimed? This isn’t correct either.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. “As a result I got to see some deals and get involved with some deals and I made some investments with my own money.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

This recession lasted until 1994. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In the early 1990s, we were in a recession triggered by reduced defense spending at the end of the cold war, the 1990 oil price shock, and a savings and loan crisis. I didn’t really see how it would affect me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. Everything).

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Shields has been training in the martial arts since 1994 and has racked up some pretty nice accomplishments during this time. Shields has been training in the martial arts since 1994 and has racked up some pretty nice accomplishments during this time.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994. Amazingly, Calzado herself emigrated to the U.S. SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. Everything).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So reading, thinking, always growing, applying ideas from different fields, different disciplines, different books, that was sort of the secret sauce that helped fuel Amazon's strategy and align teams from 1994 all the way to today. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43):

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. It’s so nice there are other great VC bloggers who write this stuff so I can just point at it. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Since 1994, Conway has been doing angel investing in solely internet software. In 1999, 80% of the portfolio went out of business with him commenting, “Thank G*d we invested in Google” SV Angel investing priority is 1) idea, 2) people, then 3) market size. His second fund raised and invested during 1999 saw a 1.5

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Dowding 1957, p.5; Typographical features. Lansdale, M.W.,

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