Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Some of the startups coming out of these incubators have become large international companies including Lenovo, Huawai, Suntech Power, etc. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I enjoyed Scott’s irreverent perspective very much because it matched a lot of my personal style (even for the few issues from which we didn’t agree – mostly around board structure). He said that ineffectual leaders seek consensus or want direction or approval from the board. He says this is a mistake.

PR 279

PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The auction process continues until a sufficient number of orders are “matched” – buyers and sellers are willing to transact at an agreed-upon price and volume to open the stock. Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience. Not only was the iPod a beautiful physical product, an icon of industrial design, but its operating system and the brilliance of iTunes were perfect matches for the simplicity of its design.

Operations 144

Operations Architecture Cofounder DC 144

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). We should call this the “Party C Flippers” multiple.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. So they agreed to match True’s term sheet. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed.

Valuation 405

Valuation Liquidation Preference Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 405

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you can’t anticipate and pivot to match these changes, to the extent of obsoleting your own offerings, competitors will step in and customers will leave, never to return. Customer needs and expectations are changing faster than ever these days. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

Artificial Inteligence 205

Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

The corporate world can offer benefit plans or matching contributions. A good goal is to try to match these amounts annually. In 1999, he started Asset Retention Insurance Services Inc. Preparing financially for retirement can be complicated for anyone, but for small business owners the process often poses even more challenges.

Small Business 124

Small Business Retention Matching Salary 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2018

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999.

Exit Strategy 128

Exit Strategy IPO Initial Public Offering SEC 128

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. I know that you chose a career that matches your personality and if you loved schmoozing customers you would have gone into sales (where they get paid sales commissions!) Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice.

Customer 280

Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Your planning phase must be thorough with financial projections that match up with your marketing view of the future. The products offered by successful business owners rarely match up totally with their original conceptions; Performance. Time will be in short supply as you move forward, and your people skills will be tested every day.

Cleveland 145

Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

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. Some of the delay is just overhang of a bad market but we may be delaying true supply/demand matching through the well-intentioned government’s attempt to stem price declines. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Over the years of having digital agencies (I started my first digital agency in college with Raj in 1999!), I called the organization MATCH (Marketers Aspiring to Change Humanity), officially starting it in 2012, and over a few years we had 17 teams helping over 40 nonprofits. And four with four teams.

Atlanta 62

Atlanta Raleigh Minneapolis New York City 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. These examples are generally recognized as the fastest growing companies in recent times, so your odds of matching their speed are not good. Very rare case.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 1999, 2000, and 2001 I had a my.yahoo.com page up with a bunch of stocks, including a number of companies I was an investor in, as my home page. This one is more specific than “ignore the macro economy&# – instead, it’s “ignore the Dow and the stock market and get back to work on your business.&#.

Stock 155

Stock Entrepreneur Chicago Finance 155

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Decentralization, Sadun argues, is key: “What decentralization does is match decisions with expertise.”

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I was going to try to create some kind of complicated matching donation scheme since I hadn’t made a gift to Naropa yet this year but I decided to just gift them $10,000 (which I just did now through the website) so I encourage you to support at any level if you want to participate in my not-so-complicated match.

Non-Compete 70

Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. They could be more descriptive (Highrise in particular is hard to match to its functionality), but they’re just fine as they are. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Enter your email below: Content copyright ©1999-2011 37signals, LLC. Apr 27 2010.

Product Name 44

Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. My parents were also small business owners.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 61

Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

I think there’s a startup sweet spot, for most startups, in which the resources available match the opportunity. And my own company, Palo Alto Software, might not have survived the dot-com crash in 2001 if we’d had more money to spend in 1999. Money is spent the right way, building the business, but without overspending.

Oregon 121

Oregon Angel Groups Cofounder Business Plan 121

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

It was 1999. But you need to match your talents, age, skills, ambition and economic situation with your current reality. When I was CEO of my first company (where I admittedly F’d up everything before I figured it all out) we initially calculated for people how much there options were going to be worth some day.

Stock Options 418

Stock Options Stock Liquidation Preference Option Pool 418

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” There are tons of possibilities.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Their odds of a successful match went up accordingly. When I was running an Israel-based company in 1999-2001, my location was a significant barrier. Among the first heavy users of online dating sites were minorities (LBGT, Muslim, Latino, etc.), Similarly, sites like LinkedIn are effectively dating sites for businesspeople.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Brian worked at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Thomas Weisel Partners, where he joined at the firm’s inception in early 1999. Brian received his undergraduate BA degree in economics from Vanderbilt University.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Advisory Board Flash Pennsylvania 60

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999). I believe, their results speak for themselves. Similarly, a search box on 404 pages can sometimes make up for the UX glitch.

Conversion 48

Conversion Product Technical Review Widget 48

Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 30, 2011

When me and the gang were starting Spunlogic back in 1999 and 2000 , I was coaching tennis at a country club to try to make ends meet because, well, we couldn’t really afford to pay ourselves. I remember one time she was playing another top ranked girl and it was a fiercely competitive match. And she almost always won.

Matching 65

Matching .Net Restful Cost 65

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?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.

Turkey 67

Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 67

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. So will we have a market correction? A bubble burst?

Angel Investor 104

Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

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. We have always had a passion for focusing on what people do well and matching them with a job that offers the right fit for their talents, their team and the culture of their organization.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Those that have been in the Bay Area for a while may remember the 1999 Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA. Their curiosity and my enthusiasm for what I do are a good match. Eric Rewitzer, 3Fish : Technology has certainly had an impact on how art is envisioned, made and displayed. Uncategorized localbiz'

Engineer 48

Engineer San Francisco CPA Social Media 48

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?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.

Turkey 54

Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 54