David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. Sudden change.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Streaming video had finally made it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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. Is that when it became big? Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. However, we can start with the mid-2000s, as there have been numerous 10 year retrospectives in recent years.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In 2006, China’s total venture capital investment reached $1.78 My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2014

And the second VC fund I was part of, which raised $660 million in 1999, was a complete disaster. In 2006 at the Winter Olympics, he was the best freestyle mogul skier in the world. As the cliche goes, I learned a lot from these failures. I’ve had many more. On his last run, he was expected to take gold.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

We started Techstars in 2006 and ran the first Boston program in 2009. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff. He labeled the company’s breakout year, 2006, as “The Dream.”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs. Amazingly, Calzado herself emigrated to the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

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. Since the company launched in 2006, TOMS has provided new shoes to children in need through their non-profit organization, Friends of TOMS. TOMS Shoes.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. through the Yahoo! acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books.

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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.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 23, 2012

Which start-up T-shirt would you like?” - @nickbilton [link] “Now we have the chance to build the businesses that we thought we were going to build in 1999.” .” - @Scobleizer [link] “Welcome to San Francisco, you are now an entrepreneur!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 and were ready to take off the covers and tell the world. I did get to have a second act.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field.

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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. Second, the capital markets over the last six years have been willing to support them (as compared to the capital markets between 2000 and 2006 which wouldn’t have). It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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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. Second, the capital markets over the last six years have been willing to support them (as compared to the capital markets between 2000 and 2006 which wouldn''t have). It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

My lifelong goal as a child was to open my own restaurant one day and, with the help of 2 partners, I did just that in 1999 with the opening of my first restaurant, Bomboa, located in between the Back Bay and South End of Boston.

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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. It was December 1999. Let me start with a story. They accepted my argument.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2006: 22.8. 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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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2006: 22.8 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 3/31/2003: 44.6

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die.

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www.volkside.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Guy Kawasaki (2006): The Name Game. Salon.com (1999): The name game. Carsonified (2007): How To Name Your Company. The Name Inspector (2007): 10 tips for naming your company, product, or service. Guy Kawasaki (2007): How to Name a Name. Naming tools: Dictionary.com : Meanings and Definitions of Words. Wordoids : Made-up words.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” HubSpot started in 2006, yet inbound marketing wasn’t mentioned on the homepage or within the “thesis” section of the early website.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. Source: NetworkWorld) After a few similar spaces opened in 2005 and 2006, the public familiarity with coworking started to grow.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

2006) [iii]. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. Corporate Financier, October 2006. [iv] Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor. Angel groups using Gust. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. 2009) [ii].

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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. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development.

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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. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2015

He is currently a 5 th Degree Black Belt in the American Taekwondo Association, three time World Champion with the first coming in 1999 in sparring competition as a 2 nd Degree Black, the second in 2006 in Xtreme (XMA) Weapons competition as a 3 rd Degree Black Belt, and lastly in 2015 in Forms competition as a 5 th Degree.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups. This is crucial to a VC: if Facebook had sold to Yahoo for one billion dollars in 2006, the 10-year return for Meritech Capital Partners would look very different (and not in a good way).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

1999) – 300,000+ customers. Kevin Larson, a psychologist for Microsoft, published in “ The Aesthetics Of Reading ” (2006) that fonts could cause readers to become more relaxed, put in a good mood, or become agitated – simply because of the characteristics of a font. 1998) – 120,000+ customers.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Cohen said that moving the headquarters to the United States had been talked about for some time after the company was founded, in 1999. That’s disappointing for a country with so much potential.

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