abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. When I share this, reporters often ask me, “why is management so gullible to sit there and listen to a demand imbalance goal of 30x-50x?”.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. He figured out quickly that there was a demand for printed tutorials. He said they found some sh*ty online print on demand service who could take credit cards and went from there. The name brainstormers got pissed because of this.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 ISRAELI CROP PROTECTION GIANT MAKHTESHIM AGAN EXPANDS TO MEXICO AND KOREA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. But there was tons of client demand in Europe for Internet projects and very few people with real experience and so my senior partner in the London office was talking about 3 or 4 projects he was considering me for in Europe. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 6, 2015

When the company was in its infancy, it promoted an on-demand ice cream service in the US in honour of National Ice Cream Month and a kitten rental service during National Cat Day. The positive reception of the brand increased to the point of being named Tech Company of the Year by USA Today.

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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%. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

These companies get the prevention-promotion balance right by evaluating every aspect of their business model—making near-term changes that reduce costs now and after demand returns (unlike layoffs). can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.”

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. How much change will you demand? It was 1999. Is it temporary?

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Like him, many retail investors were drawn into nonstop television coverage and headlines that were (to me, scarily) reminiscent of 1999. Hedge funds and corporates have quietly been accumulating Bitcoin over the past year – these names include legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones, Square, Mass Mutual, and countless others.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. We’ve seen this not only with the “on-demand” economy of Uber, AirBnB, et al but also with hardware devices that rely on a connection to internet to monitor, manipulate, manufacture, or otherwise impact our physical world.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. We’ve seen this not only with the “on-demand” economy of Uber, AirBnB, et al but also with hardware devices that rely on a connection to internet to monitor, manipulate, manufacture, or otherwise impact our physical world.

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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. Photo Credit: Sean Matula. For the previous twenty years I had actually worked in emergency response, as a firefighter, medic and police officer. This lead to me needing to find a new career, and fast!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. 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. Why use your real name? another account. Confirm Email.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Back in 1999, if a company raised $30mm before an IPO, that was considered a large historic raise. 2015 was the exact opposite. Take as much market share as you can.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. It was crazy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. billion in September 2011.

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sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Breadcrumbs, which get their name from the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale of leaving breadcrumbs along the journey so they could find their way back home, show you where you are on a website. They can be used to display a large number of links on demand without cluttering up the web page. What is the name for this? May 27th, 2011.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

The demand for eco-friendly products continues to rise with the increase in climatic changes. I feel fortunate that, since 1999, KeepCool has been able to be a conduit for the growing number of people who are making such conscious choices. How did you come up with your business name? As a pioneering CEO in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. There are ones I’ve worked with like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft, Rincon Ventures … just to name a few.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

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%. And an environment that encourages and demands learning and constant improvement of people and processes. But a few constants remain. A strong results and metrics-focused approach.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , When asked to name a time when his business struggled the most, Keith Ferguson quickly points to the economic recession. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. New industries never ask if it’s ok to sell a new raw material, they just take it and commercialise the demand for it. It gave regulation a bad name and created a doctrine that said that taxes were bad for the economy.

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