Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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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. It was 1999. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

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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. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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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. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. 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. The offering to a consultant may affect your securities compliance in later offerings and will certainly add to further dilution to founders," Durkin says.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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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. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. Free Market Capitalism.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). There is a wealth of information and connections on it.

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