Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2020

In 1999 he helped found LatinWorks, an agency that has consistently bent the rules of the Hispanic market by creating thought-provoking campaigns for some of the major advertisers in the space. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Sergio Alcocer, one of the most progressive multicultural marketers in the USA.

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Marketing Advertising Restful Campaign 97

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

At the end of 2010, the Wi-Fi Alliance moved into new, expanded office space in Austin. 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. That number is predicted to surpass 2 billion by 2015.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter.

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RSS Aggregator Acquisition Audience 58

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He currently has a 1999 strategy. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Wow, what an inspiring story.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt).

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IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

May 7, 2010. May 8, 2010 12:54 AM. May 8, 2010 1:00 AM. May 8, 2010 7:55 AM. May 8, 2010 9:55 AM. May 8, 2010 12:06 PM. Anil Dash. A Blog About Making Culture. About Anil Dash. Most Popular. More Info » One More Time: No NDAs. How should we creatively deny them ? Nishal : SilverCrux.com. kevinshay. |

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

when Dorsey & Whitney did its first survey on the topic, in 2010. And 42% of CEOs in metropolitan areas now expect to land investment from traditional VC firms, double the number in 2010. Startups in metropolitan areas whose companies got money from VCs rose to 27.5%, up from 17.1% from 75.8% The money is available.

San Francisco 115

San Francisco Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 115

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. yeah, its awesome.

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San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. 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.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

In 1999, eCommerce company, Half.com , turned a $100,000 investment into a $300,000,000 sale. Using car accident and claims data, Confused.com discovered that Somerville Road, Worcester was the most dangerous street in the country and wrapped the entire street in bubble wrap on 27 January 2010. Image credit: www.portigal.com ].

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Campaign Haiti Marketing Oregon 100

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Some great free resources listed this month that I thought were interesting.

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Reply steveblank , on March 8, 2010 at 4:29 pm Said: Thanks! 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. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Redemption Silicon Valley RSS California 126

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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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

Source: New York Times Opinion article, Inventing Our Way Out of Joblessness by Hank Nothaft and Paul Michel, August 5, 2010 ). v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. Patent Office (USPTO), could create 2.5mm new jobs over the next three years by contributing to startup formation.

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Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

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%. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small.

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Africa Brazil China India 104

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. It’s worth noting that large prime numbers are used in cryptography, because they can help develop pseudo random number generators.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#.

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 212

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In October 2010, our new textbook will become available. My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. In recent years, many universities have followed, teaching venture capital as an elective course.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2017

Women’s presence in the workplace has reduced by 5% from 1990 to 2010. ranked 6th in 1999 among developed countries for its share of women at work, it slipped to 23rd in 2015 , and the downward trend has been increasing. Though the U.S.

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Los Angeles New York City Silicon Valley Seattle 60

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He moved his family back to his home town of Little Falls NY in 1999 to be closer to his parents (and his kids grandparents) and then commuted to Silicon Valley for 11 years while running TriNet.

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Entrepreneur New York Silicon Valley Seed Capital 70

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. But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. As the authors found, “Firms that cut costs faster and deeper than rivals don’t necessarily flourish.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’ve known and worked with Andy since 1995 (I was on the board of his first company – Abuzz – which was acquired in 1999 by the New York Times) and am awed by the amazing things he’s doing in Seattle these days, including Founder’s Co-op , RevenueLoan , and of course TechStars Seattle.

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Seattle Angel Investor Cofounder New York 107

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1999, about the same time RIM introduced its first interactive pager, another advanced technology company, TiVo , shipped its first product. RIM sales were $15 billion in 2010. TiVo sales were $240 million in 2010. Video Recording. In the last ten years they’ve made over $9 billion in profit.

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Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. Ameet was right.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Partying like it’s 1999 is one thing — running an 2010 accelerator like it’s 1999 is probably not a great idea. (c) c) Mentorship is key. And it is missing, at least for now, from the model. One of the 2 partners plans to provide personal mentorship.

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Dallas Seed Capital Incubator Post-Money Valuation 91

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist). Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Messages can be classified as public or private; named or anonymous. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff.

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Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

None of us though that on Sept 1, 2010, our lives would be changed forever. I embarked on my journey in October 2010 while still working a full time job. I wrote my web copy myself, did my web design myself and officially launched in October 2010. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Apr 27 2010. I would not recommend you if you were “Customer Relationship Management, Platinum Edition 2010” :—). Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Enter your email below: Content copyright ©1999-2011 37signals, LLC.

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

But, more importantly, is another point Mark buries later on, which includes an awesome post of his from 2010. 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. As Mark suggests, this is a moment when you can proactively make pragmatic cuts.

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Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. Today’s Normalization. Fast forward to 2012 and none of these conditions hold.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. AppFog creating "high-hurdle" experiments to surface authentic early adopters with real pain.

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Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167