YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. The online classified site’s interface has remained mostly unchanged since it debuted in 1995. No one could call Craigslist a beautifully designed website – even in 1995. Today, eBay is taking steps to elevate their overall user experience.

Design 173

Design Audience Small Business Naming 173

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! Image Credit: Enrico Bratta.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Led By Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs vs. Government. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

Community 142

Community Silicon Valley Incubator Colorado 142

Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). Author howerl.

Silicon Valley 133

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 133

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR.

IPO 48

IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. We motivate and coach entrepreneurs to be warriors for their businesses, for their families and for their communities.

Naming 93

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 93

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

One of my portfolio company CEOs, Will Tumulty of Ready Financial , is a former Navy SEAL (1990-1995). Brendan went on to HBS and McKinsey after the SEALs and then started his own hedge fund with a partner, so he had an interesting, multi-faceted perspective.

Pakistan 55

Pakistan Entrepreneur Cofounder Europe 55

entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Fred Wilson did a post called Nature vs Nurture and Entrepreneurship and he says “ WEP is run by Professor Raffi Amit and as we were making our way from one meeting to another, I said to Raffi that “you can’t teach people to be entrepreneurs but you can teach entrepreneurs business.&# and 5.3%.

Silicon Valley 31

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur India Partner 31

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*).

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. At stake: Power itself. Enlarge Image Close.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Snaptu is a startup run by a highly innovative collection of engineers and entrepreneurs who we already work closely with,&# Facebook said in a statement. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79