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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

Organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Society and aimed at encouraging youth entrepreneurship, Start-Up@Singapore started in 1999 as a business plan but has now grown to be much bigger.

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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.

Brazil 54

Brazil Angel Investor India China 54

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Let’s not forget that Time Magazine featured Alan Greenspan, Rob Rubin and Larry Summers on the cover in February 1999 with the headline: “The Committee to Save the World.”

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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. · Productivity Gains – This is something frequently cited as critical to developed economies like ours in the US. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

SHARE Micro Finance Limited, India. Since its organization in 1999, SHARE has become the biggest microfinance institution in India, and its success has prompted other banks to begin their own microfinance programs. Amazingly, Calzado herself emigrated to the U.S. from Cuba despite speaking no English and being legally blind.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. The fact that Singapore, Brazil, India, China, Chile, the U.K., .” (iii) “Roughly 600,000 new businesses (that employ others) are started each year in the U.S.” . (iv) … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

annually for the period 1982-1999, has since 2000 slowed to a mere 1.8%. Or India, at 6%? So much of the challenge that both entrepreneurs and investors face in earning return on time and capital is driven by the low growth rate of the economy as a whole. GNP growth, after averaging 3.6% Not your cup of tea?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Accenture opened massive operations in India & China and continued its industry dominance. Ameet was right.

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Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

We are now well-beyond 13 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading, on an inflation adjusted basis, much lower than they were in July 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to July 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,031, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,685.

Brazil 74

Brazil Angel Investor India China 74

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 with their capital and confidence, China and India are stretching their wings. Your India strategy? • Well, McKinsey estimates that consumer spending in Africa will double, to $1.8

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. In India in order to fill out paperwork to import IT equipment for when I opened our offices there in Pune, the form asked where my grandfather was from. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months. Not true in Europe.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

Since 1999 I have worked in every aspect of the import/export arena gaining extensive experience with various trade relations and regulations, utilizing my vast knowledge and experience in sales, marketing, and strategic networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. We raised just $500k. I did all of the sales myself.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I had taken photographs with film cameras as a child in India, but I never had any particularly good equipment. I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply Shankar Saikia , on June 29, 2009 at 9:02 am Said: THANKS – MAKES ME FEEL BETTER 21 months ago I left an awesome job at Oracle in Silicon Valley and relocated to India to be an entrepreneur. I’ve tried different things in India – sales training, software sales, advising entrepreneurs.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

If you don’t, you might end up like Cadbury and FCUK who got their official Facebook pages in India taken offline for different violations. Borderless world. Facebook in particular has very concrete rules – read them before hand and you’ll save yourself a heck of a lot of trouble. Conclusions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

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. Among Microsoft’s 20 worldwide R&D centers, there are only three “strategic centers”: in India, China, and Israel.

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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 were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. WSJ India Page. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home. ↓ More. WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages: U.S. Deutschland. en Español. em Português. WSJ Japanese.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Philips has expanded its Israeli presence and acquisitions since 1999, when it acquired part of Israel’s Elscint, and is set to further expand its current 600- employee Israeli R&D center. INDIA, ISRAEL SIGN $50 MILLION ACADEMIC RESEARCH PACT.

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El Salvador San Diego Silicon Valley 97

Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Staying private  — The average age of a technology company before it goes public is 11 years, as opposed to an average life of four years back in 1999. Some large companies can bolster their position by buying out established technology and business models rather than creating them anew. Imagine that.

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Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

There are also American executives who have experience working with startups with R&D in India, China, and Israel. Cohen said that moving the headquarters to the United States had been talked about for some time after the company was founded, in 1999. There are many Israeli professionals who have worked in the U.S.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

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. The original plan was to finish my master’s degree, do a PhD at Berkeley, and become a scientist. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

More than 50% of all ships that sailed wouldn’t return so groups of people banded together and formed the Dutch East India Company to share the risks and the rewards of their conquests. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

In India or Japan or the United States? You can also checkout Colgate's channels in Brazil, Mexico, India, Philippines, Australia, UK or others you'll see on the right above. kbps circa 1999 quality. Instagram allows you to express your creativity, and soak up expressions from others. Humans, check. Same mis-match.

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