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.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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

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. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

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. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. SALES & MARKETING. 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. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Tools & Research.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) This was possible because in 2000, Donna and Handspring were in an Existing Market.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. The incumbents have expensive product features to maintain and often expensive sales channels. What is “disruptive&# is that is also dramatically less expensive. Enter Salesforce.com. That would have been laughable.

Vesting 376

Vesting Framework Revenue Technology 376

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. If Ventro was worth $8 billion on $2 million of sales surely a paltry $1 billion would suffice. It kind of reminds me of sales employee bonus plans. The stupid thing is we sort of believed it ourselves.

Stock Options 294

Stock Options Stock Valuation Liquidation Preference 294

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I suffered through the next financing after implementing a complex structure, or a sale of the company, or a liquidation.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

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. Gayle Warnock, got wind of the decision, he sent a one-line memo to project head Richard Krafve: “We have just lost 200,000 sales.” What Went Wrong? But then the backlash began.

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

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.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 4, 2011

They soon realize that issues such as what gets sold, how you get paid, when you get paid, what your payment is eventually based on, what you guarantee post sale, and how the deal gets structured can have huge implications on what actually finally ends up in your personal checking account from the sale of the business. Or $70 million.

Sales 64

Sales Employee Software Hiring 64

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. I did all of the sales myself. True story.)

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. But moreover, thats just not how things work. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). And those that were successful at it by driving sales will earn for their efforts. . #8 – Almost By Mistake. Photo Credit: Marcus Miller. I was a developer.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Non-Compete LLC Social Media 48

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. They didn’t raise their Series B until they proved some of the initial hypotheses around market adoption and were ready to scale the sales efforts, as described below. Gross Profit. $(60).

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. Number of U.S.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. But even Walmart (the epitome of brick and mortar) changes prices on some items daily, based upon sales and competitive intelligence. The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

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! This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. Image Credit: Jen Perry.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

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

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. .

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

" Web 1999/2000. VC – $5 or trade sale. As an add-on to this, I thought I would compare and contrast some differences, all quite obvious, with the first euphoric Internet wave. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often. Tech platform. First Round Funding.

Web 60

Web API Open Source Business Model 60

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. Let me also add that there’s little as powerful as a marketing person that’s also strong at product.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I also wanted to future proof my business – to position it for growth, and ultimately sale, so giving it my name was out of the question. The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). So why Market Expertise?

Naming 93

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Discover the secrets and strategies of how your business can achieve the frictionless sale. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): It started in 1997 with his first letter and his last letter in 2000 that came out in 2021. Then I started researching Bezos and Amazon.

Seattle 61

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 61

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. He continues: “I am thinking of initiatives to startup hi-tech companies with annual sales turnover of over $1 billion a year.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. In 2000, new investors bought Iridium’s satellites and network for $25-million, or one half of one percent of the invested capital. The company burned its way through more than $5.2-billion

Business Plan 335

Business Plan Customer Business Model Customer Development 335

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. million products as of June, and this year expects to do $140 million in sales. Sales Jobs |. FINS: Finance, IT jobs, Sales jobs. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. BlackRock Inc.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6%

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company. There is no E in the P/E.

San Francisco 20

San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20