Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. During the 2001 crash it lost all its value. It was crazy. My phone rang, I picked up.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

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. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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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. The question is why?

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above. Interestingly the data for the 1990-98 and 2001-19 time periods are roughly the same – approximately one-quarter of deals priced above the initial filing range. from 2010-2019.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 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. If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. They would push more work into the bottleneck straining it further.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. . And so a lot of it is performance management.

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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. I lived through this again September 2001. It was December 1999.

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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. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. VC’s have diversification and management fees.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/30/2001: 26.3 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. If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Comparing anything about Venture Capital to the markets of 1999 and 2000 is a fools errand. Without question, the venture markets (and the markets in general) were completely overblown in that time period. There were too many venture firms and too many companies getting funded.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2020

Jack Welch is most known for being the CEO of General Electric from 1981-2001. He was also recognized as Manager of the Century in 1999. by Ryan Gottfredson, PhD., During this tenure, he increased the market value of GE from $14 billion to $410 billion. The post The Mindsets of Jack Welch appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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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. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. People who manage processes make more sales. Test interest.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Because it wasn’t just the Internet and e-commerce that were trending – prescription prices were soaring and people needed an option to manage the bite. Canada Drugs was the online pharmacy that he launched in 2001. One of my pharmacy contacts was looking at this business model in 1999, and asked for my input,” Thorkelson said.

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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. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious.

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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. Over its twenty-plus year lifetime, just over one trillion dollars in goods have traded hands across eBay’s servers. annual GMV.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. The funds with more traditional origination are primarily focused on their local venture center network. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Most people want to know management is accountable.". Why Register? Todays Paper.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). 2001 ; Tullis et al., Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Nor have they managed to make their work sufficiently known in the typographic community ( Spencer, 1968, p.6 2000-2001 , Tullis et al.,

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% 44% 2001-2019 13.7%

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

They’ll likely need to a dose of anxiety to remind them the problem they’re trying to solve is very real, but also need signs of relief and reassurance that the problem is manageable and worth fixing. See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers.

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