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. The shop has been on AdAge’s ranking of the top ten agencies in the USA in 2014 and 2011 and was honored as Small Agency of the Year in 2012.

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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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IPO Social Media Media Exit Strategy 223

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. He topped the 2011 list of the richest people in the Hunter Valley Region with earnings of $1.1 The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle. The housing industry and infrastructure created more construction jobs.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

billion today as a public company (it went public in 2011). 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). It is worth $3.4

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

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. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011. I wouldn’t rule any decent firms out. GRP’s last fund was in 2000.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

88MPH was founded in Nairobi in 2011 and has since expanded to Cape Town and Lagos. He has extensive experience working in Kenya’s tech industry, having founded Wananchi Online in 1999. Nikolai Barnwell Program Manager Nairobi at 88MPH.

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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. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Streaming video had finally made it. Step 1: Calculate the annual increase.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

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. 2011 is the first year where it feels like a real boom – much like 1996. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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IPO IRR Brazil Government 48

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

May 26, 2011. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story. LinkedIn went public last week. A lot has changed.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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. “Every blogger wants to have their own iPhone app for their blog,&# says Wong. “But creating one is not an easy feat for many bloggers.&#

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2012

Launched in December 2011, these pillow covers come with names like Louie the Lion, Izzy the Unicorn, Barry the Bear, Kit the Cat, Max the Dog, and Donn the Dinosaur, in the name of helping a child to sleep. Founded by Ilan Sharone of Fun Life Toys , Cuddle Covers animal-themed pillow covers help bring boring pillows to life.

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Distribution Naming Small Business Product 145

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. 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.

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Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

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. I did that?

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IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2011 Mansueto Ventures LLC. Telecom and Wireless. Technology. INNOVATION. Managing Creativity. 500|5000 List.

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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). 1998 – 1999: Fun times (carefree, exploring our passion for web design). 1999 – 2001: Hard times ( credit card debt rising , no real plan for growth).

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. This approach has already lead to some stunning results: In 2011, we hosted over 600 portfolio presentations to corporate customers and partners at our office in Menlo Park.

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Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. 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”. Everything).

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Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Last weekend I caught Mashable announcing that Ebook Sales Surpass Hardcover in the U.S. In both cases what surprises me is not that it happened, but how long it took.

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Forecast Leadership Media Sales 123

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2011 – “There is no network effect in the enterprise software business; it’s not a category we invest in anymore”. 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).

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Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

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. By 2011, we had 50 customers; today we have over 2,000. 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

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Brett on Twitter @databrett #Ecommerce #CEO #AngelInvestor #BigData #AspenInstitute Bob Metcalfe is a Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UT Austin since 2011, most recently with a big focus on geothermal energy. She’s a co-founder of Impact Hub Austin and is passionate about social impact and inclusion.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. Among our most successful seed investments that have reached maturity are Cornerstone OnDemand (which raised $137m in a March 2011 IPO, ticker CSOD) and Quigo Technologies (sold to AOL for a reported $340m in 2007).

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Cofounder New York Venture Capital B2C 133

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Here in Dallas, Tech Wildcatters had a strong class and is opening up applications for the Spring 2011 class later this month. Partying like it’s 1999 is one thing — running an 2010 accelerator like it’s 1999 is probably not a great idea. (c) Some have done quite well. c) Mentorship is key.

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Dallas Seed Capital Incubator Post-Money Valuation 91

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

The first was with a company started in 2011 that is now a real business. In 1999, the year an online pet store fronted by a sock puppet raised $50 million, Harmonix was laying off staff. I’m seeing and hearing a lot more of it these days. This is dangerous, especially for founders.

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Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

This year’s winner will be following in the coveted footsteps of the 2011 Great Lakes finalist and winner, Chicago-based Red Frog Events. The seven featured companies have already proven their worth as winners of the Blue Ribbon Award for innovative business practices and contributions to their local communities.

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Small Business New York Denmark America 140

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%).

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

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. Thus it was that Eric Ries both extended Blank’s work and made it more accessible with the publication of The Lean Startup in 2011.

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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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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion was invested in startups by venture capitalists in 2011. According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The team of 8 web designers and coders have launched the public beta in May 2011. billion back in 1999 ; Yahoo has since shutdown Geocities after failing to charge all its users to use the service. IM Creator is a freemium service: you can design a website and host it for free, with zero advertisements. mo or $5.95/mo

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Coder Angel Investor Web Bootstrapping 87

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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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

In 1999, Goodrich became the No. billion in September 2011. Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts.

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Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209

Scott Edward Walker

JULY 23, 2012

- @nickbilton [link] “Now we have the chance to build the businesses that we thought we were going to build in 1999.”

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San Francisco RSS Entrepreneur Startup 45

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

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. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. So that’s what’s on my mind this Independence Day 2011. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months. I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London.

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