Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

In April, 1996, Yahoo! 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. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. million, by selling 2.6

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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. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success. This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

It was 1996 when Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan first uttered the now historic phrase “ irrational exuberance.” And the venture capital firms that pulled back in 1996 missed the best three years of return in the history of venture capital industry. What was it in 2003? And how has that trended over time?

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Employee Internet 74

Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 prohibits unsolicited email notices. These laws only offer protection that results from a third-party posting. Obey the CAN-SPAM Act.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

that’s Raj on the left, me next to him, and our two college roommates in 1996). I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. here is a shot of your office from the spot CNN did on us in 2003 ). - The hardest part of that, as it turns out, is walking away from Raj for the first time in 15 years.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. cents or 6.25

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Met you in 1996 Mr Malik and always knew that you were going to make it and make it big one day. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP. They may [.]. target="_blank">.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

The coolest season was 2003, but now 1998 takes that category. Finally, 2014 is has the fourth highest GDD accumulation, trailing only 2013, 1997, and 1996. Today, 1997 is the leader. We are at 972 GDD, which is 17 GDD, or about one day, behind 2013. The chart below shows accumulated GDD for four key years since 1994.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2003: 44.6. 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. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. Hans Hvide at the University of Aberdeen Business School just published a paper, "The Horse or the Jockey? Evidence from Nascent Firms where a Founder Dies" in an attempt to quantitatively answer this question. This leaves a relatively small sample.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. framework was built. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2003: 44.6 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 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2004: 31.6

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Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Then came the second wave with Skype (2003), Blackberry Messenger (2005), and Google’s first incarnation of its messaging app, Google Talk (2005). Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

When I was an executive at Open Market and did our IPO in 1996, we executed an $80 million IPO - at the time, that was considered mid-sized. It's worth noting that the last time annual VC funding dipped below $20 billion was in 2003, which saw $19 billion in VC investment. 2) Profitable, established business (i.e.,

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