Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Gordon Gekko may have a new movie coming out, but the days of the jolly old stock market he once knew are gone forever. public stock market performance over the past 11 years has been. market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And if so, what to do about it?

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

public stock market long-term woes would be comical if they weren’t so tragic. 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. For the U.S. Do so smartly and at the right price, and they will make you money.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

stock market performance and the drumbeat of negativity that passes as business reporting these days has been the massive growth in U.S. By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. It was December 1999. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

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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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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. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY.

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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.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s review all of our existing investments. I need leaders who manage in good times and bad.To build a large company you need to manage through economic cycles. So when the market started showing good signs (iPhone, Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, stock market growth) it was happy days again. We need some visibility.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 5; in Lund, 1999 ).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% IPO market.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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