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. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. 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. What the big studies have shown. companies covering the period 1982–99, which included a recession during 1990–91.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/29/2002: 82.5. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. It was a disaster.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. Ford’s frustrated chairman, Ernest Breech, asked the committee out loud, “Why don’t we just call it Edsel (after the founder’s late son and former president of the company, Edsel Ford)?” By 2002, New Coke was dead.

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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). Last year Mr. Ferreira’s company scored a $33-million investment of its own in one of the biggest deals of the year.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/29/2002: 82.5 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/29/2002: 82.5 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2016

Today we discover how Greg Wittstock, Founder of Aquascape Inc. Greg Wittstock is Founder and CEO of Aquascape Inc., Since its inception in 1991, Aquascape has experienced incredible growth, appearing on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America 4 years in a row (1999-2002).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Want to get an introduction to the founders? Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. I invested in quite a few other startups.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Want to get an introduction to the founders? Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. I invested in quite a few other startups.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Want to get an introduction to the founders? Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. I invested in quite a few other startups.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. Back in 1999 I was trying to think of a clever way to use my name Ina(rhymes with Lena) on my AOL Instant Messenger screenname in college. Thanks to Tom McPhillips, ATOMIC Design, Inc. ! #4-

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. Factual was created in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, the founder of Applied Semantics.

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