Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999). Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses. GRP’s last fund was in 2000.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? was starting.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The organization was incorporated in 1999 when a number of visionary companies realized the tremendous opportunity for compatible wireless networking connectivity around the world.

Incubator 54

Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

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). Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2005, I wrote a post called Unfolding the Map in which I looked at these two seemingly opposing philosophies from successful entrepreneurs: If you don’t have a map, you can’t get lost If you don’t have a map, you can’t get where you’re going. and tried to combine them when thinking about product roadmapping.

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Framework Partner Developer Employee 62

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

At the beginning of Coremetrics in 1999, the market risk was whether or not companies would embrace the outsourced model (what we called ASP, or Application Service Providers, back then, and are now called SaaS, or Software as a Service, or “cloud” providers). We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

B2C 51

B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

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. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. million.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

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. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. million.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2018

While the events are from 2005 – 2008, they feel like they happened yesterday. The company had gone public in 1999 and the market cap rose to just under $3 billion ($55 / share, up from $10 / share at the IPO). Last night Amy and I watched The Big Short for the second time. By the end of 2000, the stock price was at $13.

Stock 134

Stock IPO Finance Technology 134

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. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. million.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

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. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. million.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. Drag along rights?

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Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Cap Table Participating Preferred 304

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Since 2005, they have been the two leading investors in Africa, investing $31 billion and $16 billion on the continent, respectively. Pursue Global Markets. In the U.S.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2011

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. According to her memoir, Tough Choices , she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

Networking 226

Networking Leadership Demand Entrepreneur 226

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old. The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. How to Market Yourself & Your Business on LinkedIn is one of our most popular how-to guides! . Congrats! . link] Lincoln Coutts. A lot has changed.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 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).

Widget 76

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

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. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. million.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Finance Internet Web 143

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2005, The Wall Street Journal tried to estimate the “world’s cash hoard” and arrived at a figure of $46 trillion (PDF), based on global insurance, pension and mutual funds holdings alone. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years.

Venture Capital 127

Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

When Amazon acquired Bibliofind (a competitor to my company AbeBooks ) in 1999, they expected to switch all of the Bibliofind sellers over to Amazon. eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007). This means that an IPO is the exit option for the most successful marketplaces.

IPO 60

IPO Distribution Channel Business Model 60

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 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). Everything).

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. In early 2006, my partners at Mobius and I decided not to raise another fund.

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LP Advisory Board Venture Capital Early Stage 155

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

million in 2005. 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. Crew from bankruptcy by rebranding the store and giving it a new identity. Under Drexler’s leadership, J. Crew experienced a dramatic increase in sales, earning $3.8

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Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

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. It’s so nice there are other great VC bloggers who write this stuff so I can just point at it.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2010

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. According to her memoir, Tough Choices , she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Leadership Networking Demand 121

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff. ” The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were “The Part Before That. . “We were on the brink of death, I don’t know, 10 times over those 10 years,” Rigopulos says.

Boston 70

Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. If I was to pick a watershed moment in the emergence of ‘entrepreneurship as a science’ it would be the publication of Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005.

Lean 90

Lean Startup Silicon Valley Venture Capital 90

OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. We’ve had many great times, meals, and conversations together over the years, not the least of which was staggering across the finish line together at the New York City Marathon in 2005.

New York City 83

New York City Startup New York Community 83

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2005, The Wall Street Journal tried to estimate the “world’s cash hoard” and arrived at a figure of $46 trillion (PDF), based on global insurance, pension and mutual funds holdings alone. Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Comments (HTML is okay). Earlier: Know Your Shit: Ten Years of Twitter Ads. Next: Heres Whats Up. Why, Hello! Contact me at anil@dashes.com , phone +1 646 833 8659, follow anildash on Twitter or IM, or subscribe. Still curious? Matt Haughey.

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

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. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

We haven’t seen any records for sale in their stores, but in 2005, The Gap paired up with Apple to give iTunes music downloads to customers who tried on a pair of Gap jeans. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. Delta Airlines. Delta Airlines flies passengers and cargo all around the world, but they sure didn’t start out that way.

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Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209