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.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M Facebook doesn’t exist, even as a walled-garden college social network (Mark Zuckerberg was part way through his freshman year at Harvard). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand. business model entrepreneur startup subscription' Marty Zwilling.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Powered by cell phones and social networking platforms, we saw revolutions taking place, businesses being transformed and our daily lives made more convenient (if we could tear ourselves away from our Facebook and Twitter updates). As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

For example, Amber Alert GPS will make sure your kids don’t wander outside of safe zones, Site24x7 will let you know if your web site is down, and Radian6 monitors social networks so you know what people are saying about your brand.

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Revenue Startup Cloud Curation 120

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Social networks have their own switching costs. Both companies built moats based on network effects. A startup taxi service needs hundreds of drivers in a city before wait times can compete with Uber.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Computing will be an order of magnitude more mobile 10 years from now, changing the way applications are delivered and the way we interact with our real social networks.

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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. Social network by IOV Labs, the company behind RSK.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. Draper III, in his new book titled “ The Startup Game.” In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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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. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. They seem so reachable.

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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.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). Myspace, Facebook).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, If you’re already running a startup you know all this. “Yes, but you don’t have any startups on the stage. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. .&# Look at Google.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. I never went ahead with the PhD – I joined a startup instead, as it felt like the right thing to do. It was entirely by accident to be honest!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

Customers not only talk about their delight on social networks, but also love the experience so much that when they next purchase shoes, they will again buy from Zappos. However, little variation can keep the suspense (Pine and Gilmore 1999) and continue to surprise. Startup and Small Business Tip: Marketing One-To-One.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

On StartupBus a team of strangers, traveling at 60mph, have about 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup. In my next bloggy post I’ll tell you all about the eleven other startups that made the semi-finals. I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. Relax, Chicago Startup Guy. </endrant>

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups? I don’t know.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

I’m the Chairman of Navon Partners , a startup with some technology designed to source new transactions based on these signals. Given how much data PE firms can gather about other investors and companies through social media, It is understandable that they are wary of making too much of their own information available through those channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point. Great post!

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

Josh started Jupiter Communications which during the mid-90s was the go-to research firm for market growth numbers for every startup business plan.  .  It took me a few minutes to remember who he was and meeting him more than a few times while he was out raising capital for one of his many projects, Pseudo.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

It might be fun to spend two hours daily on Facebook or Twitter hunting for customers, but the more important question you should be asking is whether your prospective customers are looking for you on those social networks. For example, take a look at Buffer’s 5 Unique Ways to Measure and Evaluate a Social Media Campaign.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

We connect them to hundreds of thousands of potential new customers using email marketing, social networks, and display ad campaigns. Mixergy offers access to insightful interviews with entrepreneurs and masterclasses for startups. Borderless world. Their numbers are impressive. Today, the numbers are even more insane.

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