Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. Either would be fine with startups, so long as they can easily change their valuation. When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

Only one of which, was on the list in 1999 – that being Microsoft. The digital era has provided inordinate consumer value through data mobility, entertainment on demand, social connection, digital connectivity, smart devices and ecommerce to name a few. Technology firms now make up seven of the ten biggest companies in the world.

Technical Review 67

Technical Review Software Review Government Algorithm 67

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented.

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

startups and small businesses. 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. startups and small businesses. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S. service exports – increasingly from U.S. based opportunities.

Small Business 81

Small Business South Korea South Africa Uruguay 81

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

The larger companies claimed that the cost of replacement and integration was not worth any savings that the enterprise could potentially realize, and that the risk of deploying with a startup was too high for mission critical functions. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Are you launching a mobile application? My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). I’ll always point out when I am.).

San Diego 267

San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico. Many startups today don’t do these kinds of sessions. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. They recorded it.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Since then, his leadership of the Fund has allowed several African startups to access capital, mentorship and acceleration services.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Convertible Notes Are Sometimes Terrible For Startups – [link]. Staffing your startup? Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

As an investor, I am also bullish about the innovation wave already in its early innings around mobility and autonomy. But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

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Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. ATI is a traditional incubator that helps form and grow up to 30 startup companies at any given time and counts over 200 successful launches over its 20+ years.

Incubator 54

Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

OnlyOnce

MARCH 11, 2021

Almost a year into my second journey as a startup CEO at Bolster , and I’m getting more and more questions from other CEOs about what it’s like doing a second startup after almost 20 years at the first one…and achieving pretty good scale by the end. It’s much easier to build a startup today. Here’s why. I’m more confident.

API 48

API Cloud Metrics Mobile 48

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 11, 2012

The question on everyone’s lips is, of course, ‘how come a two year old startup with no revenues is worth $1bn?’. I think that high priced acquisitions of startups are often valued with half an eye to the acquirers share price. I think that is the difference between 1999 and today.

IPO 110

IPO Valuation Forecast Acquisition 110

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%. Startups intuitively get the idea of creating new business models as part of their mission. Pursue Global Markets. 7 Companies in China have raised more than $1 billion in an IPO this year. Bet on them.

Africa 104

Africa Brazil China India 104

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

But this morning I read a Dallas Business Journal article that I found amusing: A new accelerator is planning to invest $200,000 and provide up to 45,000 square feet of office space to about 10 mobile app startups in exchange for 15-20% equity in each startup. (a) a) That’s $20,000 per startup for a 15%-20% equity stake.

Dallas 91

Dallas Seed Capital Incubator Post-Money Valuation 91

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

Seattle 136

Seattle New York Metrics Demand 136

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.” But personalization is on the rise.

Web 48

Web Software Review Jordan Technical Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. They sponsor TWiVC. OTHER DEALS: 1.

Founder 214

Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. The skills required to get to the next level were different than the skills I had or my own desires.

Silicon Valley 150

Silicon Valley IPO Demand Revenue 150

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

But the Mosiac browser wasn’t released until ’93 and opened the door to the world wide web, which of course has evolved from the desktop internet to the mobile internet to a soon to be pervasive internet. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

But the Mosiac browser wasn’t released until ’93 and opened the door to the world wide web, which of course has evolved from the desktop internet to the mobile internet to a soon to be pervasive internet. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

"Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. At least nine out of ten high-quality angel-funded startups face an unnecessary death, because there is no Series A money to help them survive critical expansion. Facebook is doing billions in revenues.

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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Fonality HUD Mobile. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Tools & Research.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. With every startup came increasing responsibility. In fact, unlike in the movies, most startups actually fail.

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Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

2012 has been good to startups. My theory is, we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years. My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M Mobile as the driver.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Mobile Seed Money 51

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I was thumbing through Twitter messages on my Blackberry on Monday (I use Twitter as a “ mobile first, web second &# product) when I saw the following Tweet (see graphic). I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. Tags: Startup Advice. And I would opt for transparency.

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Stock Options Stock Valuation Liquidation Preference 294

37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Just ask yourself how many of you would tell a startup that doesn’t have a product yet that they need to improve their name or do some branding. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Set email and mobile reminders. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

Product Name 44

Product Name Naming Product Software Review 44

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

While phrases like “mobile email and packet switching” didn’t mean a thing to RIM’s first customers, the “interactive pager” positioning proved important in attracting early adopters. RIM, the Blackberry and its network had more inventions per square inch than most startups. Resegmenting an Existing Market. Video Recording.

Hockey Stick 271

Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 271