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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). If you don’t address it they’re minds are shaped by competitor PR. Building companies is hard work. We were hot.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

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 ).

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. The bonus of naming the company Redhead Marketing & PR is that when I am meeting a potential client for the first time in a coffee shop or wherever, they are always able to spot me because of my company name and hair color.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

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. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Parker, for example, often sealed his agreements with a handshake rather than on paper.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

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! I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

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.