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.

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Demand Mobile Security Founder 172

Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.

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Texas Houston Dallas Austin 83

Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. The Kauffman Foundation’s most recent study of start-ups discovered that people aged 55 to 64 accounted for nearly 23% of new entrepreneurs in 2010, compared with under 15% in 1996.

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California Internet Founder Portfolio 122

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. Are you bigger, faster, cheaper?

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. It’s hard to say.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. On the eve of the graduation of the TechStars Boston 2010 class, I thought I’d weigh in with some additional advice to anyone who either is or wants to be an angel investor.

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Angel Investor Boston Due Diligence Cofounder 167

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. 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.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

© 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175. Highlights: What do you need to raise investment?

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Forrest Walden officially the first Iron Tribe Fitness facility in 2010. “I have been in the fitness industry since 1996 and honestly can’t imagine doing anything else,” Walden laughs. It wasn’t long before people were lining up outside waiting to sign up and join in. In 2011 it saw US$1.1

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Alabama Nashville Demand Revenue 145

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. Wow – it would have saved me a lot of time, energy, confusion, and grief.”

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Venture Capital Exit Strategy Angel Investor Deal Structure 136

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. couldn’t draw a salary). I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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United States Founder India Venture Capital 114

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996 – 2010. Entrepreneurial Communities. Reading: Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City (Feld). Financing Entrepreneurial Companies. Reading: Venture Deals: How To Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer (Mendelson, Feld).

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Venture Capital Leadership Lean Community 133

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Update (08/15/2010 11:23 PM): Patrick Vlaskovits posted a great followup to my post above on his blog: Distribution and Pricing Hypotheses with LOIs. we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Angel Investor Cap Table Early Stage Deal Flow 152

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent.

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Technical Review United States America Technical Support 281

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. What seemed like a big bet in early 2010 was only us pursuing our passion. Despite our firm being a little over 6 years old, our individual stories go further back.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. RIM sales were $15 billion in 2010. TiVo sales were $240 million in 2010. Doctors and drug dealers equally found these devices handy. Sell Directly to Businesses. In the last ten years they’ve made over $9 billion in profit.

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Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Path, a two-year-old San Francisco startup, took this risk and turned down a $100 million offer from Google shortly after their launch in November of 2010. . - Modest profitability. -

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. companies went public.

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IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering Balance Sheet 78

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34.

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Technical Review United States America Technical Support 237

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” So that was 2010. How did you kind of get to this place where you are the president of the company and doing other entrepreneurial things? Lance Cummins: You’re going to love this. John Jantsch: Awesome.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again? I’m only a 386 processor.&#.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2010: 18.8. 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. ► 2010. (7). 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. ► February. (1).

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San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline.

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IPO Massachusetts New York Silicon Valley 34

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2010: 18.8 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 3/31/2003: 44.6

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Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

Apr 14, 2010. The Internet business changed, completely, in 1996 when the AT&T WorldNet Service began offering"all-you-eat" (u nlimited access) pricing for Internet access. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Escapin through the lily fields I came across an empty space.

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HTML Distribution Web Internet 37

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

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. As Primack points out in his post: “Law firm Fenwick & West reports that valuations for Silicon Valley venture financings rose 61% in Q4 2010.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Now let’s take a look at the current version of the same inflation-adjusted data: Total venture capital raised from 2008-2010 was just shy of $55 billion, about 0.12% of the national GDP, with the trajectory of capital raising declining in each year. In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

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. 2003 was one of the best vintage years in the last decade, as many are arguing 2009-2010 will be. Without this level of float, there isn't enough liquidity in the stock to attrack investors.

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IPO Revenue Stock Portfolio 22

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. This was in 2010 — exactly the wrong time to be pulling out of venture. We lived that first hand.

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LP Entrepreneur United States Venture Capital 150

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

« Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010. on February 1, 2010 Another criterion I use is: What is the size of the developer pool? on February 1, 2010 Great post. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Comments 1 Chris Powell commented at 3:29 p.m. 2 Tony Karrer commented at 6:16 p.m.

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

The Equity Kicker

MAY 5, 2015

Going forward here are three new technologies that should help maintain this trend: Genetically engineered crops: In 1996 there were 1.7 million hectares of biotech crops in the world; by 2010, the number had jumped to 148 million hectares.

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Product Harvest Vertical Forecast 60

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Then came the third wave, which included WhatsApp (2010), KakaoTalk (2010), Viber (2010), WeChat (2011), LINE (2011), and Facebook Messenger (2011). Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999).

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Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. After about a six-month development cycle, we launched a beta version in July 2010 and three months later, started earning revenue that grew each month.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly! Bring your questions.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. From 1995–2010, the Israeli startup ecosystem was not focused on creating big companies. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up?

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20