OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

Today, the Wall Street Journal ran an article exploring the data privacy practices of Google and some of the third party developers who utilize their G Suite ecosystem. Return Path was among the companies mentioned in this article. I want to reaffirm that Return Path is absolutely committed to data security and consumer data privacy.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Web.Search.Social also publishes business and marketing articles as well as a podcast about challenging the status quo of the entrepreneurial journey.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 1999-07. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Angel investing Contributed Articles' Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2007: Mixed Signs of Growth” Unknown. Wiltbank & Boeker: “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups” 3,097. 1961- 1996.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. In the 20 th century, the best companies IPO’d in 6-8 years from startup (and in the Dot-Com bubble of 1996-1999 that could be as short as 2-3 years.) VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. Here’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.

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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. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

This article provides advice on how to position each section of the business plan for an investor audience. About Growthink Since 1999, Growthink's professional business plan writers and investment bankers have assisted more than 2,000 clients in launching and growing their businesses, and raising more than $1 billion in growth financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Viren Tellis, Hedado ! #14- 14- Adding our initials to what we do. Photo Credit: Terry Kasdan. Abby is the “a” and I am the “t” in atCommunications. Our logo uses the @ symbol which is ubiquitous in digital marketing.

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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 wrote an article for the IEEE Spectrum called The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence is Open. This article is How To Predict The Future , so now we’ve reached the how-to part.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

You’ve probably read dozens of articles about how to raise capital from venture capitalists. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York.

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Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Munger” , a brief article from the Stanford Closer Look Series , thought provoking if not practical. The article was written by David Larker, Director of the Corporate Governance Research Program at the Stanford Graduate School of business , and Brian Tayan, a researcher with Stanford’s Corporate Governance Research Program.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. If you prefer the super short version – I’ve summarized the post in the final section. Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In this post I break down an article by TheMarker.co.il 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.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In fact it was marketed as “Auto-Pilot” and a Popular Science article from 1958 about the car carried the headline “Like it or not, the robots are slowly taking over a driver’s chores. Cruise control was invented in the late 1940’s and was first adopted on a production car in 1958, the Chrysler Imperial.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

This article was originally published on TechCrunch. The full articles are linked below. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. Why is that? But probably because as a group we travel a lot. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one. Raise your money.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Review article. Review article.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

I” know it’s a huge industry overall and sneaker heads are a real community but just read this article before flaming me. I interned at Mattel in the summer of 1999 so have some light first-person stories about how this company works. “But there was no secret shoe pipeline.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

In the Y2K projects – which had to get done by the end of 1999, or “bad things” would happen – there were executives who wanted different projects to get done first, and so, requested the Y2K projects have their end-date moved. The subject matter experts you need are being used by other teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. Article written by Tanja Woods. Row Murray – Founder, and Digital and UX Director of Kenobi and Board Member on Vic ICT4.Women. Tip 5: Always Look to Automation Tools to Improve Productivity and Profitability.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

And although this sounds like nothing but pessimistic nonsense, there are dozens of articles and statistics that actually corroborate it, one of which is an article in FastCompany saying that more than 70 percent of startups fail after a decade. David Johnson is a CPA and holds an MBA from Columbia.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Some additional observations include: Many of those quoted in the article such as Charlie Lea, Kevin Landry, Ken Rind, and Fred Adler, were all very well known in the industry. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Here’s the link to the Valleywag teaser article (they have since purged the full article). I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. He handled this perfectly.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2020

He was also recognized as Manager of the Century in 1999. As a respected authority and researcher on topics related to leadership, management, and organizational behavior, Ryan has published over 15 articles in a variety of journals, including The Harvard Business Review.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings. If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Otherwise, grab a cup ‘o coffee … Clicking on any graph below will take you to that article. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. If you’re short on time click on the WSJ link and read the 990 word version there. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

This article originally appeared on Inc.com. Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2016

Since its inception in 1991, Aquascape has experienced incredible growth, appearing on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America 4 years in a row (1999-2002). Greg himself appeared on the cover of Inc Magazine, along with a feature article about his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Lisa Kennelly points out, in her recent article ‘ Start up Trends in Real Estate Technology ,’ that in 2013, there were less than two dozen tech-based startups worldwide. In 1999, Craigslist initiated this change by listing rental properties online. However, the numbers just keep growing.

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

All Articles. Amazing article!!! Very informative article. Very comprehensive article and definitely an interesting read. Great article. Cameron, excellent article, very detailed. I’m still learning and this was a timely article for me. Great article. Good article, thanks!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.

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