Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. He was previously Senior Vice President, responsible for product lines and manufacturing operations, at SigmaTel through its 2003 IPO and then acquisition by Freescale.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Typically, 25% of what my online information business earns will be ear-marked for the Dr.Mani Children Heart Foundation I set up in 2003. So in 1999 I decided to try and fund one heart operation through a combination of donations and a portion of my online business’ profit. That’s correct.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. It was 2003. Enter Cloud Computing and Marketing Automation at Scale. The industry had to wait for about 4 years to have a new genius disrupting the industry of CRM.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 1, 2014

1998 – 1999: Fun times (carefree, exploring our passion for web design). 1999 – 2001: Hard times ( credit card debt rising , no real plan for growth). 2001 – 2003: Focused times (starting to figure out how to build a business). 2003 – 2008: Fast times (doubled every year for 5 years).

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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).

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. By 2003 nearly all of their competitors had failed, the companies that went public pre-bubble were trading sub-$1 / share, but ServiceMagic was growing like crazy and was very profitable.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Everything).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. � Howard Aiken. irregulator. | May 10, 2010 6:11 PM. Why, Hello!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999. Believe it or not, but the uber successful retailer, J. It wasn’t until Millard Drexler, former Gap Inc.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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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. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

What was that percentage in 1999? What was it in 2003? What is the percentage of employees in Silicon Valley that are working at profitless companies (i.e. companies that are losing money or have negative cash flow)? And how has that trended over time? And what is it today?

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. And now I can’t open a tech blog without reading about the new bubble or the Series A crunch. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC. Two significant boom and bust cycles of the modern era.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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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. When I sat down with my team and told them that we would generate positive cash flow no later than Q2 of 2003 and I planned to commit that to Wall Street, one of the best people on my team questioned the direction.

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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. When I sat down with my team and told them that we would generate positive cash flow no later than Q2 of 2003 and I planned to commit that to Wall Street, one of the best people on my team questioned the direction.

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Cofounder Internet Finance Founder 78

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

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. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. Eitan Lev, was born in 2003 with a rare and serious heart defect known as TAPVR. 51 – My Oldest Son.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2003: 44.6. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/30/2001: 26.3. 3/29/2002: 82.5.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). And I think this is sometimes missed by those who run to quickly to greener pastures.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2003: 44.6 If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/30/2001: 26.3 3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2004: 31.6

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 4, 2004

As you know, I have always been interested in this trend since my first post in October 2003 and since I invested in a number of companies in 1998 and 1999 like LivePerson and Expertcity (GoToMyPC) that subscribed to the ASP business model.

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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. So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born.

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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. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC.

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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. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Prior to starting his own firm in 2003, Seth worked at Biggs & Co., 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. CPA’s.

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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. Let me also add that there’s little as powerful as a marketing person that’s also strong at product. The combination is amazing. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Sustained Reduced Sleep Can have Serious Consequences , Linda Cook, NINR, March 2003. ” The Promise of Sleep by Dr. William Dement & Christopher Vaughn, DTP, 1999, ISBN 0-440-50901-7. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Sleepy Medical Interns Called a Road Hazard , Los Angeles Times, Karen Kaplan, January 13, 2005.

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