Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Can you name five benign dictators who have ruled successfully for any meaningful period of time (non-fiction)? Can you name five successful, long serving CEO’s (excluding Warren Buffett ) whose governance histories are free of the “high-beta” associated with outliers such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs ? It’s not easy.

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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.

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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. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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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.&# As a market we seem to be incapable of temperance. It’s marketing.

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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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Today the company still uses the logo that my college roommate created, employs thousands of people globally, and has a market cap well over half a billion dollars. In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2012 she was announced as one of the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. How did you come up with your business name? TRADECONDUCTOR – I came up with the name because CONDUCTOR means either a person who directs the performance of an orchestra or choir. I am a global citizen, and I understand the global marketplace.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One doesn’t need to carry out thorough market research to understand that a customer will be more willing to make a purchase at a shop where they feel they’re getting maximum help in finding what they’re looking for as fast and easy as possible. Popular products”, “Customers who bought this also bought…”, etc.).

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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 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. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Median age of a venture backed company hits 8.7 cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Joe and Brian resolved to make a run at transforming this experience into a business.

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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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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. Thanks to Sean Matula, Small Business Consulting Strategic Marketing ! #2-

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Loading… Markets. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Marketing Jobs. Market Data Center. stock quotes reflect trading in all markets and are delayed at least 15 minutes. Market View. another account. Confirm Email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London. I thought that, too.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Uber recently named Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Others are simply thieves.

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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., While mentors often do appear in the form of teachers, you will find them in many other walks of life.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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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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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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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. In Silicon Valley, the ambition is always global.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Most disappointing however, is that in more than one hundred years of legibility research, researchers have failed to form a concrete body of theoretical knowledge on the part that serifs may play in legibility ( Lund, 1999 ). Dowding 1957, p.5; Typographical features.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

MONOCLE MAGAZINE NAMES HAIFA INVESTMENT HOTSPOT. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Became tenured professor of economics at Harvard at age 28, where he first started mentoring a young undergraduate named Sheryl Sandberg, who ultimately became his chief of staff at the US Treasury. Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999.

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