ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Data Management Platform ∩ Marketing automation capabilities.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers). million CPUs.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). A lot has changed.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the biggest European gathering of venture capital fund managers, private equity fund managers and LPs, the institutions that invest in both types of funds. This week I’ve been at the SuperReturn/SuperVenture conference in Berlin. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

Private Equity 92

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Europe 92

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The company managed to increase sales by an astonishing 24,000% with its ingenious events that feature an intoxicating and unequaled blend of races, mud, music, pig roasts and beer. Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages.

Small Business 140

Small Business New York Denmark America 140

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. We were a ragtag group of misfits if there ever was one.

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New Zealand Atlanta Charlotte Restful 36

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. For starters we saw a huge influx of inexperienced managers enter the VC industry proving clearly that being a VC is not a purely quantitative job. The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives.

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

I started out my career at the management consulting firm McKinsey which was a truly wonderful learning ground. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). I had retired from a successful 45-year career in technology-based management consulting.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Non-Compete LLC Social Media 48

Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. Thanks to Julie Rustad, Julie Originals LLC. #4

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Naming Technical Review PR LLC 48

BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

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Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. Options are obviously a very important economic motivator for your first 3-5 employees and your most senior management team. Whatever the intent of the dialog let me encourage all management teams to be transparent with their employees.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. The manager didn’t even have to reply, because his eyes told me that he knew what I was talking about. It was the era of “go big or go home.” Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Finance Internet Founder 78

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. The manager didn’t even have to reply, because his eyes told me that he knew what I was talking about. It was the era of “go big or go home.” Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Internet Finance Founder 78

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. Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. We had 6 developers, 1 head of product management, 1 QA in India and me. True story.) The expectations of our company having raised $16.5

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

So many companies suck at managing their booths. My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting.

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South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

This from a man who knows from having made bigger investments that are smaller : Duncan Davidson, Managing Director of Menlo Park-based Bullpen Capital. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities.

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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

These influential managers are instrumental in sharing and learning the most effective ways to support development efforts in Africa. AWDF, the first Africa-wide fund-raising and grant-making fund, was established in June 2000. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development.

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South Africa Africa Cleveland Government 66

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. What Went Wrong? What Went Wrong?

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price. Or both things could be happening.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2000: 73.4. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

This time, the debate centers on the “favored few” Social Media venture backed companies that have brought tremendous windfalls to a select group of venture funds and management teams, both pre- and post-IPO. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

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! At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). And Coursekit, a nascent challenger to Blackboard in the market for learning-management software. There’s the Coursebook, a young online-learning start-up.

Indiana 54

Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd quarter of 2009 down 33% from the same period a year earlier. Comparing anything about Venture Capital to the markets of 1999 and 2000 is a fools errand. The evidence? Venture capital funding is down - from an “astonishing” 1.1%

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Technology Advertising Internet 48

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2000: 73.4 In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329