Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 90 days since this deal was announced, car OEMs like GM, Ford, VW, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler as well as tech giants like Google and Apple and on-demand transportation companies like Uber, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Gett all scrambled to form strategic/investment partnerships with each other.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. 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. 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%.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. Dollar in BULL market for now. When $ BEAR market begins GOLD SILVER BITCOIN parabolic. DO NOT MISS OUT.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. We had recorded $1.8

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files. It was right up my alley in terms of skill sets and interests.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the 2017 article, I wrote “True alpha returns have been difficult to achieve in the globally low interest-rate environment…”. Like him, many retail investors were drawn into nonstop television coverage and headlines that were (to me, scarily) reminiscent of 1999. Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Unfortunately after twenty years working such demanding jobs I was no longer able to physically do the work. Thanks to Sean Matula, Small Business Consulting Strategic Marketing ! #2- My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business!

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

An old market adage states that the best time to buy something is when no one else wants it, the general thought being that demand comes in cycles. Yes, you must be passionate about your “idea” and making it become a market reality. Like the weather, if you wait long enough, things will change for the better.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. This market structure in which the few, large players use their market position to eliminate competition is inevitable. It’s Hobbesian economics 101. Enter the decentralized Internet. Of course anybody who says this publicly gets lambasted.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The women to follow are CEOs, career experts, coaches, and entrepreneurs who are all familiar with the challenges that moms (and dads, too) face when trying to balance the demands of their careers with the responsibilities of being a parent. Maria Bailey : Maria Bailey knows a thing or two about maintaining work/life balance.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. And especially now, consider market realities and overall industry and cultural trends. It was 1999. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing? How much change will you tolerate?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. 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%. read more.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I left a great job, Director of Marketing for Snapple, to start my own speaking business. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. The reasons are as varied as the businesses themselves.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? 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. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Markets. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand. Marketing Jobs. Market Data Center.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

Everything you read below is through the lens of enabling free enterprise and ensuring we have a free and competitive market place. One where we can keep in check a very small number of giant invasive species which threaten to destroy the free market ecosystem. Numbers for Australian market. But when the web 2.0

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

When any industry goes through a dramatic change – who serves which markets usually changes as well. Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? The market now demands it. Where will the next generation of marketing professionals come from? Probably the later.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

When any industry goes through a dramatic change – who serves which markets usually changes as well. Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? The market now demands it. Where will the next generation of marketing professionals come from? Probably the later.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

They begin on the eastern edge of the city near the Ferry Building and spread westward along Market Street. Currently located in the historic Southern Pacific building at One Market Street, Salesforce has plans to occupy a twenty-seven-floor tower at 350 Mission across from the new Transbay Terminal in 2015.

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