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).

Technical Review 110

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more.

Portfolio 122

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Those that managed companies in 2008 or thirteen years ago in 2001 know exactly how fear feels. Investors are not the only ones that can discount risk; executives and employees can discount risk as well. What is the percentage of employees in Silicon Valley that are working at profitless companies (i.e. And this is not it.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Employee Internet 74

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Susan Balloch, Managing Director of Golden Seeds. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women. Click here to make a reservation.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. Moving on … My second post was directed at employees.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

In the late nineties, internet IPOs were all the rage. One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. It was crazy. My phone rang, I picked up.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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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. Investors hated anything Internet and wouldn’t fund anything that couldn’t fund itself. 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. Investors hated anything Internet and wouldn’t fund anything that couldn’t fund itself. It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

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. Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" Tags: Business Entrepreneurship Leadership/Management. You may note that they all have dust on them.

Turkey 67

Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 67

Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Dictionary.com defines coworking as “ an arrangement by which freelancers or employees working for various companies share an office or other workspace. “ People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. - How did coworking start?

Austin 48

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" Tags: Business Entrepreneurship Leadership/Management. You may note that they all have dust on them.

Turkey 54

Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 54

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? And so a lot of it is performance management. Jonathan Siddharth .

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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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OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?"  .  You may note that they all have dust on them.    I completely unplugged from work.    2.

Turkey 59

Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 59

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Tony Hsieh, CEO of online clothing retailer Zappos, has made company culture a focal point in his management style. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Thus, efficient management of funding sources is highly important because small businesses have to fund both day-to-day operations and expansion projects.

Small Business 60

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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. People who manage processes make more sales.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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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. Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers - Steve Blank , September 2, 2010 I gave a talk last night to the Silicon Valley Product Management Association. Except they won’t be called Product Managers. Want to start up in France?

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2014

Perhaps they’ll be family members, friends, managers, the CEO of your company, of a competing company, you name it. Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., They’ll steer you in the right direction, whether that’s finding new employees, software, etc. •

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] I am sorry there really isn’t a job for you.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We also cut staff from 92 to 38 in one day and then immediately afterward to 33 employees.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser.

Silicon Valley 42

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering.

Technical Review 76

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. So that’s the big thing that’s starting to happen right now.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), I’m not sure how many Internet companies started in 1999 are still private, backed and led by the same team the whole time, and generally in the same business they started in. Press release is here.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Affiliate Cofounder 48

OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), I’m not sure how many Internet companies started in 1999 are still private, backed and led by the same team the whole time, and generally in the same business they started in. Press release is here.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Affiliate Cofounder 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. Today, we’re a global leader in the carpooling category, but back then that was a pretty new thing in the consumer internet space.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

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. 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?”.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82