YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users. Prime time.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Generation Z, which are those born between 1996 and 2010, strive to solve problems instantly and are maturing in a stranger-trusting community that utilizes daily on-demand services for food delivery like Favor, transportation solutions like Uber, and instant current event influence with news sent directly to their smart phones.

Demand 172

Demand Mobile Security Founder 172

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency. In my first company, SneakerLabs, the total capital raised was $1.15M.

Silicon Valley 91

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technical Review Acquisition 91

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency. In my first company, SneakerLabs, the total capital raised was $1.15M.

Silicon Valley 90

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Technical Review Acquisition 90

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. Intel can fix bugs on the chips by reprogramming a microprocessors microcode with a patch.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. I learned how to complete a negotiation, walk away from the table, be empathetic, and be available.

SEC 164

SEC Cofounder Boston New York 164

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. I’ve talked to about 1800 to 2000 companies a year… I always think the shorthand for Demo is, “I’ll look at all those start-ups so you don’t have to.”

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Channel 120

Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000. While I learned a ton of finance lessons from the experience, I also learned a lot a leadership lessons.

Cofounder 70

Cofounder Founder Equity Acquisition 70

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Support.com — On 2.5m OneBox.com — On $60m invested, sold for $850m 18 months after launch to J2 just before market crash — score!

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. End result? In essence, Palm created a New Market.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. To be clear, IPOs, particularly IPOs raising less than $50 million, have become largely extinct due to unintended consequences resulting from a series of securities regulations that followed the rise of electronic trading networks in 1996. In the 1990s the U.S.

IPO 38

IPO Venture Capital America Marketing 38

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. percent to 23.4 percent last year.

IPO 273

IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2000: 73.4. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year.

Southern California 162

Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

The NASDAQ is up 30% this year and achieved its highest level since September 2000. I wrote a blog post two and a half years ago in response to cries of a bubble that it felt a lot more like 1996 than 1999 right now. Half of CEOs and VCs are optimistic about next year''s exit environment.

IPO 49

IPO Stock Valuation Portfolio 49

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I would have taken a crack at it myself, but the site is written in ColdFusion, and I haven’t touched CF since 2000. It brought me back to the glory days of 1996. Except it wasn’t a couple hundred. The quote from the original developer was $900. That learning curve wasn’t going to be worth it. Application #2.

Software Review 56

Software Review Naming Email Internet 56

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? Probably not, since that''s not exactly what happened the first time around. They''ll be around 10 years from now. But at what valuation? That is the real question.

Hockey Stick 60

Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 Number of IPO’s has shrunk while average size has increased. cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again? I’m only a 386 processor.&#.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present. Gross Profit. $(60).

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Baby Boomers are joining the fun in record numbers.

IPO 120

IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. This is similar in effect to the epic 1996-2000 Internet Bubble cycle but for the expansion of the players in the pre-IPO inner bubble circle. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

Valuation 50

Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

Since we replanted the vineyard in 2000, this may be the earliest Levensohn harvest yet (our latest was just before Halloween in 2005). Finally, 2014 is has the fourth highest GDD accumulation, trailing only 2013, 1997, and 1996. We expect harvest to occur three weeks earlier than our 2013 crop, which was picked on October 3.

Harvest 28

Harvest Global Washington California 28

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2000: 73.4 In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. After the 2000 crash Profit and Revenue came back into style, spawning and reinforcing real companies like Google and Salesforce.com which are Profitable and Grow. Sound familiar? The Bubble Begins To Pop.

Early Stage 22

Early Stage Revenue Naming Web 22

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. At the peak in the spring of 2000 Interliant hit $55 / share and was worth over $3 billion. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. Back to breakfast. Len had already had an extremely successful business career.

SEC 148

SEC New York Venture Capital Partner 148

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Compounding the IPO drought is the fact that the entire NASDAQ market has shrunk—since December 2000 the NASDAQ has contracted by 38% to approximately 1,786 companies. backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. which happen to all be venture?backed jobs today.

Delaware 37

Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Our first LPs from 1996 were industry players who put us in business: Carrefour (the large European retailer), DLJ (the former investment bank) and a billionaire software exec. Many of the sources of capital for new funds come from investors who can’t necessarily back you in good times and bad. We lived that first hand.

LP 150

LP Entrepreneur United States Venture Capital 150

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Popularized in the mid-late 2000’s by the rise of DIY website testing tools like Optimizely, Monetate, and Adobe Target, A/B Testing turned a previously painful and statistically rigorous mathematical process into a comparatively easy method of improving conversion rates. Which do you feel would be easier to test and why? A/B Testing.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Bates: You know Josh—.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95