Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. I could obviously go on.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo.

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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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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

What’s different this time around (as opposed to the tech bubble of the late 1990s) is the widespread use of technology, “digital natives” (millennials who grew up with the Internet and mobile phones) coming of age, and a cultural shift towards self-employment and risk taking (again, powered by stark economic realities).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders. Our advice to our founders is that they’re underpinned by a few pillars we discussed.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve. I learned about the Law of Attraction and many other Universal Laws and Principles through the many books I read along the way.

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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. Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits. In less than nine months after founding, I booked a $27 million quarter. 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. Investors loved anything Internet and could not care less about profits. In less than nine months after founding, I booked a $27 million quarter. It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

An eponymous book (e.g. As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Five years of hard work later, Stratajet is the result; the world’s first fully-automated private jet booking platform – the only system that can provide accurate availability and costs of private jets in ‘real-time’ Thanks to Jonny Nicol, Stratajet ! #5 5 – Old Man Strength. 12 – It was Just Time.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He’s the author of a new book we’re talking about called – The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman. Questions I ask Carmine Gallo: [1:57] Why did you choose Bezos to focus your book on? [6:20] 6:20] You start off the book with – “Simple is the new superpower.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

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. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. - Coworking is a recent phenomenon which was aided by the proliferation of the internet and the associated capability for people to work remotely. How did coworking start? may come from your decision.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. Go seek out the experts. They love their industry.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. It was 1999. You just started building.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. They’re not buying a book on Amazon or shoes on Zappos.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve written close to 1,000 posts over the years, and the book became the impetus for a book that another friend and board member Brad Feld from Foundry Group encouraged me to write and helped me get published called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business back in 2013. But the company is unusual in many respects.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve written close to 1,000 posts over the years, and the book became the impetus for a book that another friend and board member Brad Feld from Foundry Group encouraged me to write and helped me get published called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business back in 2013. But the company is unusual in many respects.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth!

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I believe that this is a major new area of growth & innovation for the Internet as Cloud Services start to form deeper & richer layers. Over the past 5 years the Internet Cloud has started to form into layers and this is a great thing for innovation. Especially to a company that sells books! Let me explain.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Let me tell you the tale of a truly buzzworthy endeavor by an internet business: back in 1999, Mark Hughes convinced the town of Halfway, Oregon to rename itself Half.com to generate publicity for the growing e-commerce start-up. You can only create secret content by reading good books and by breaking new information in your industry.

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