thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Around 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis contributed to a recession that lasted through 2009. Near the end of the recession in 2009, I invested in Uber, Twilio, and SendGrid. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. 2009 was the trough year of the most recent business cycle – and a deep trough at that. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. That moment is now. Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. It wasn’t a fluke.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

Wong, a serial entrepreneur, also founded Linknet Solutions in 1999 and was responsible for developing Brunei’s first and largest online shopping website, www.qqestore.com. Bloapp is the brainchild of Nicky Wong, the founder and director of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based Infindo Technology ( www.infindo.com ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. May 14, 2009 4:53 AM James Spittal said. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Reply Joe , on November 23, 2009 at 4:39 pm Said: This is an awesome post and I really appreciate the availability of the slides as well as the video. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. 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). Total raised: $1.0mm – Read more: TechCrunch. Company still in beta.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

The smartphone-powered taxi service has attracted significant negative press since founding in 2009, accused off jeopardising the jobs of traditional taxi drivers. In 1999, eCommerce company, Half.com , turned a $100,000 investment into a $300,000,000 sale.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 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). Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. The timing of an IPO is driven heavily by the state of the economy in general and the stock market in particular, in concert with your profitability. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 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). Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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. recession in 2009.”. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat.

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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 The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. The skills required to get to the next level were different than the skills I had or my own desires.

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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. The first was with a company started in 2011 that is now a real business. The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies.

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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. – Jalak Jobanputra (Fox Business News, 2009). – Jalak Jobanputra (2009). 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.

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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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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. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. The question is why?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I started on a journey of self-discovery in 2009 when my marriage of 13 years took a turn in an unlikely direction. I was laid off in 2009 after the financial crisis hit hard the big law firm I was working for on a part time basis. Image Credit : Kent Lewis.

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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). Courseload, the digital-textbook start-up revived in 2009, was born in 2000, but its leaders say tools weren’t available to support it until more recently.)

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Joe and Brian resolved to make a run at transforming this experience into a business.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply Shankar Saikia , on June 29, 2009 at 9:02 am Said: THANKS – MAKES ME FEEL BETTER 21 months ago I left an awesome job at Oracle in Silicon Valley and relocated to India to be an entrepreneur. Reply GaryF , on June 29, 2009 at 9:18 am Said: Wow – talk about “thinking on your feet&# !!! Thank you again.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

According to a report released in May by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit focused on entrepreneurship, the number of new businesses created between 2007 and 2009 was the highest level in 14 years, even exceeding the start-up boom of 1999-2000. in 2009 to $17.6 billion, a drop that came on the heels of a 26.2%

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Altgate

JANUARY 18, 2009

I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom. I read this book in 1999 at the height of the internet bubble and still wasn’t smart enough to short the market in time. But even that doesn’t go far enough.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , In the waste management sector, unemployment in 2009 and 2010 hit 10.5 ” Keith adds, with the struggles of 2008 and 2009 still fresh in his memory, “Just plan. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

of US GDP in 2000; and in the 3rd quarter of 2009 down 33% from the same period a year earlier. Comparing anything about Venture Capital to the markets of 1999 and 2000 is a fools errand. Schramm and Bradley site the PriceWaterhouseCoopers study on 3rd Quarter 2009 investing to back up their assertions. The evidence?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Ironically enough, the second nudge she gave my career also had to do with AOL--ten years later when in 2009, she introduced me to Jon Brod who was forming AOL Ventures. She helped inspire me to start writing about business and form a business newspaper on my college campus.

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

According to Fred’s posts, the “math problem&# in VC is that LPs have been investing capital in VC funds at the clip of about $25 billion per year for the past decade (excluding 1999 and 2000 which were strange years).

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2009: 14.5. 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. 3/31/2004: 31.6. 3/31/2005: 22.8. 3/31/2006: 22.8. 3/30/2007: 22.6. 3/31/2008: 19.1. 3/31/2010: 18.8. 3/31/2011: 15.4. 3/30/2012: 15.5.

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