Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. For the U.S.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years. people that is China.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Emerging market governments often implement measures that support industrialization and prompt economic expansion. The shift to remote work and the easily affordable vendor management systems allow seamless sourcing, onboarding and management of remote teams while fully automating billing and payments.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 and was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system. Tom Cleveland writes for BetterMerchantAccounts.com.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup. government) giving grants to innovate R&D-based projects and grants for research studies, etc. In the U.K.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the biggest European gathering of venture capital fund managers, private equity fund managers and LPs, the institutions that invest in both types of funds. This week I’ve been at the SuperReturn/SuperVenture conference in Berlin. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void.

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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%. IPO by far this year will be the government ward General Motors. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. In the U.S. Looking for Opportunities Now?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And then there is the government. Each year, Growthink reviews hundreds of startup and emerging company investing opportunities and selects those with the best management teams, market opportunities, and financial prospects.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

Russell Garland reported in today’s VentureWire that “ Jarrett Collins, a managing director of NeoCarta Ventures, which is winding down, has launched BoardSpring to help directors of venture-backed companies learn about best practices. now Thomson Reuters, and then in 1999 co-founded NeoCarta. and San Mateo, Calif.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 and was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. A certain General Partner might know a certain type of customer like telecom carriers, but not others like pharmaceutical companies or government agencies.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The company managed to increase sales by an astonishing 24,000% with its ingenious events that feature an intoxicating and unequaled blend of races, mud, music, pig roasts and beer. Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve written about board governance challenges for startups since 1999, publishing one book, a series of three white papers, and many articles and blog posts on this topic. Chapter 2 Managing Risks in A Startup: Four Key Issues. The first video will be released on September 5. Stay tuned for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

These influential managers are instrumental in sharing and learning the most effective ways to support development efforts in Africa. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. AGAG has its roots in the South Africa.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. BF Goodrich has long been known as a tire manufacturer, but today, does nothing of the sort. billion in September 2011.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Thanks to Young Lee, The Flame Broiler ! #51

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

When I started Coremetrics in 1999, Accel Partners wanted to invest in our Series A alongside Highland Capital Partners. The person they chose to be their new CEO was a management-level person (not an executive) from the company that the Advisory Board member led as CEO. What about the Governance Committee? and dangerous.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies.

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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. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

But if you work in an environment where the person working next to you is a full-time Account Manager at an unrelated company, and a freelancer in the same workspace is working on their own web design projects, and you’re all working independently while sharing the same space… you are coworking!

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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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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  4)      Boston.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2013

ID Management & e-Government. Its MyKad was issued in 1999 by the government to replace multiple cards – driver’s license, passport and bank card – with a single card. Contactless Applications (RFID, NFC…) for Payment, Transit and Security… Mobile & IT Security / Cloud.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans. Do we truly care about the importance of diversity and inclusion for our team?

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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. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Most people want to know management is accountable.". Why Register? Todays Paper.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. 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. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.”

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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. Over its twenty-plus year lifetime, just over one trillion dollars in goods have traded hands across eBay’s servers.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. While there he managed the revenues for over 80 animal hospitals ensuring that the monthly closing entries were prepared so that the monthly and quarterly financial statements could be produced in accordance with SEC regulations.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I’m talking about the conscious and/or subconscious beliefs that act as a lens through which we see ourselves and the world, and therefore govern all our decisions – including whether or not entrepreneurship is for us. What do I mean by mindset? Send them this article.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. Sound familiar?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. And then small businesses start to use it. But this is a complete change from the way it has always worked.

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