Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

Thank you to the Austin Technology Incubator at UT Austin for creating the Austin startup scene as we know it! This is no exaggeration: Austin’s startup community would not have taken off without the solid foundation laid by the Austin Technology Incubator , the longest running active tech incubator in the United States.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. At the end of a long discussion, Don in his typical style, asked me: “Manu, what’s the biggest enemy of a startup?” What is the biggest enemy of a startup? Time is the biggest enemy of every startup.

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Technical Review San Francisco Startup Architecture 117

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The previous post described how China built its science and technology infrastructure. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. All the usual caveats apply.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Agile VC

OCTOBER 3, 2016

” In my first post earlier this summer, I highlighted the fact that we’re still a ways off from truly autonomous vehicles, despite many decades of technological advances to assist drivers. FWIW, the first true competitor to Tesla’s Auto-Pilot ADAS system, Mercedes “DrivePilot”, has gotten terrible reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. ” I highly recommend reading it. Valuation.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

If we can agree on these truths and what innovation is, then we can usher in a long over due, different type of innovation. But before we explore the next phase of innovation, it’s worth reviewing the phase we are currently in. Technology firms now make up seven of the ten biggest companies in the world.

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Technical Review Software Review Government Algorithm 67

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The iPads contained engineering data from the 1999 restoration of the monument. This is just one example of how businesses are embracing mobile technology. Repair technicians can access technical manuals while on client calls. Small business and startup tips: training day! Accessing data. Accepting payments.

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Technical Review Mobile Small Business Technology 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So I think the hardest role to fill in a startup is a Product Management role.

Technical Review 288

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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! I’ve lived through two tech market corrections at close range.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

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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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. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) But he didn’t grow up with technology. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. 2008) [iv]. Investing focus.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin? The Case for Culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. You’re on the DS (deferred startup) plan. We were high tech at the very start of the boom.

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France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

Dale has been an SEO specialist for fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. As technology and algorithms are constantly changing, the world of SEO as we know it continuously evolves along with it. 4:56] Could you talk about something you’ve written about — the end of technical SEO? [5:43]

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SEO Technical Review Metadata Social Media 89

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

Dale has been an SEO specialist for fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. As technology and algorithms are constantly changing, the world of SEO as we know it continuously evolves along with it. 4:56] Could you talk about something you’ve written about — the end of technical SEO? [5:43]

Technical Review 87

Technical Review SEO Metadata Algorithm 87

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Let me start by saying two things: Events like this are invaluable to startups because the significant value comes from building the network across portfolio companies and the discussion one can have with your peer group. The Greycroft event was a 10 out of 10 so I’ve diligently taken notes. View more presentations from steve blank.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These companies can range from tech startups to food trucks to retail stores. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. approx 1999-07. Villalobos & Payne: “Startup Pre-Money Valuation: The Keystone to Return on Investment” 117.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns. Before making the decision to join the firm, I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio 122

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. That moment is now. Enter the Developers.

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Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 1999-2000 51.6% 05% of total US mutual fund assets. 1990-1998 13.3%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. FIVE ISRAELI STARTUPS SHINE IN INNOVATION TOP 100. Haifa is also home to.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. It seems remiss, therefore, to not shed light on this issue. A rare success. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer has had an impressive career.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. 3 Early Fails That Nearly Killed Our Startup - crowdspring.co/16EQKG0.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M As I’m fond of saying, startup fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics but rather finding true believers.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

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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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. He said, literally, I sh*t you not, “well, my report was due and I didn’t have much time.

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Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). 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. They thought the market could be significant if IEEE 802.11

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

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. Business, professional, and technical services were the fifth largest U.S. startups and small businesses. entrepreneurs targeting U.S.

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Small Business South Korea South Africa Uruguay 81

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. Moms at tech start-ups say they can have it all – [link]. Want to Win The Competition For Customers?

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

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. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post).

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Another telling example, is when back in 2011 eBay acquired a 2-year-old recommendation engine startup , Hunch for $80 million. This means that personalization and related technologies left the “nice to have” category for good. Nowadays, employing such techniques is downright a prerequisite of doing business online successfully.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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