YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Shawn Burcham , author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success ” is the founder & CEO of PFSbrands, which he and his wife, Julie, started out of their home in 1998. Prior to starting PFSbrands, Burcham spent five years with a Fortune 100 company, Mid-America Dairymen (now Dairy Farmers of America).

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Shawn Burcham , author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success ” is the founder & CEO of PFSbrands, which he and his wife, Julie, started out of their home in 1998.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. The lack of conversion rights must also be considered when structuring voting rights. IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the United States, front airbags have come as standard on all new vehicles since the late 1990s (1998 for cars and 1999 for light trucks). Here are six notable examples. Many vehicles had airbags even before these dates. Airbags are triggered by sensors that can detect a frontal collision.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Shawn Burcham , author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success ” is the founder & CEO of PFSbrands, which he and his wife, Julie, started out of their home in 1998. Prior to starting PFSbrands, Burcham spent five years with a Fortune 100 company, Mid-America Dairymen (now Dairy Farmers of America).

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 7, 2013

Solar Winds, founded in 1999 and based in Austin, ranks 11th on Forbes’ List of the Top 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies. Rackspace Hosting, founded in 1998 and based in San Antonio, snagged the 19th spot on the list.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Dowding 1957, p.5;

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. I have the purchase history to prove it.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018? Sceenic is based in London.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As Luke Wroblewski of Google chronicled years ago, Amazon really pioneered this trend… Luke Wroblewski , Google : “In 1998, the site had two top-level categories: books and music. While modern design practices have a lot of sites looking like this… …some people do use tabbed navigation as their main navigation.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Lee put his hypothesis to test in 1998 via Peanut Butter & Co , a small retail shop which has turned into a multiplatform success. sandwich shop in 1998, and the menu consisted entirely of peanut butter sandwiches, snacks, and desserts. Q: The business started in 1998. One which still goes best with a glass of milk.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 4, 2011

I think I can create one that’s better, and it becomes my personal summer project in 1998. It would peak at around 200k queries per day sometime in 1999, before Napster came into the picture and killed ftp servers that shared mp3 files. It’s not even illegal, that will come later. So what was 2look4? A few things.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 1, 2014

1998 – 1999: Fun times (carefree, exploring our passion for web design). 1999 – 2001: Hard times ( credit card debt rising , no real plan for growth). Chris hosts a great fireside chat and we had a lot of fun batting stories around. 2001 – 2003: Focused times (starting to figure out how to build a business).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force. iridium satellite network. What went wrong? We Think We Identified a Large Problem.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Seth also worked as an Auditor for United Government Services, a division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin auditing Medicare cost reports under contract with HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration) from 1996 to 1998.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

years in 1998 to 9.6 That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999. The median age of a venture-backed company at the time of its IPO has increased from 4.5 years as of year-end 2008. years over the same time frame.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Trust Between 1998–2000 the world became enamored with the “new economy” and Internet companies that were going public on NASDAQ in the United States. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So I didn't put a lot of stock into that. Then I started researching Bezos and Amazon. I'm looking at it differently now. Don't look at it as a mission.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. In 1998, Page and Brin decided to take all eight of Google’s employees on a company ski trip to Lake Tahoe.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. In 1999, about the same time RIM introduced its first interactive pager, another advanced technology company, TiVo , shipped its first product. RIM Interactive Pager 900. Video Recording.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

OCTOBER 16, 2011

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. Conway’s first fund, Angel Investors I, raised and invested in 1998, generated a 7 times return. times return.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999). Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998. million registered members as of November 2010, was established in 1999 and recently hit its 10 million answers. World-leading optical connectivity company Corning Inc has acquired Israeli wireless network solutions developer MobileAccess Ltd.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

When my partners and I were building our business back in the day (1998-1999) , we had a goal to be acquired. Do you have something in your life that you’re striving for that is really, really hard to achieve? Something that you set your sights on and maybe ten years later you attain it? From day one.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Akamai: The Present.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 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. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/2003: 44.6.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Companies pre-1998 that went public received on average about $20mm of venture funding, were 6 years old, were EBITDA postive, and had a pre-IPO value of around $170mm (includes companies such as Peoplesoft, Intuit, Mercury, Documentum, Checkpoint, and Veritas). received its first round of funding between 1999 and 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/1999: 49.7 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 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2003: 44.6 3/31/2004: 31.6

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1999) – 300,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . As a benchmark for how powerful this has been, let’s look at MailChimp’s competitors: Aweber (est. GetResponse (est. Constant Contact (est.

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