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! Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Fred Wilson on Why the Collapse of Venture Capital is Good – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 Today, venture capital deal flow has slowed to a relative trickle, just $28.4

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

The disgraced former directors of Tyco International (vintage 1999) , seemingly highly trustworthy and accomplished men and women, also come to mind.

Government 62

Government Technical Review Venture Capital Leadership 62

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.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix' And you don’t have to worry about picking out the right clothes!

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

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Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us acquisition.

Portfolio 122

Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Given the growth of information online, it is not a surprise that consumers are now looking for more personalized, curated shopping experiences on the Web, and leveraging their social networks and other trusted sources to find products. Universities are also creating more interdisciplinary programs in order to encourage this collaboration.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve written about board governance challenges for startups since 1999, publishing one book, a series of three white papers, and many articles and blog posts on this topic. Adult Education Corporate Governance Entrepreneur Levensohn Venture Partners VC Board Best Practices Venture Board Governance White Papers Venture Capital Web/Tech'

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Video Entrepreneur Venture Capital Government 33

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 19, 2005

I had an enjoyable lunch with Jeff Jarvis today catching up on a number of things and brainstorming about value in the next generation web. During the conversation I vented a little frustration at the use of buzz words and bubble-like mentality with terms like Web 2.0. company and lists their principal reasons for being Web 2.0.

Web 68

Web Java Bandwidth Business Model 68

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

As it turned out, rather than run me out of town on a rail, the two venture capital firms that had lost $12 million in my failed startup actually asked me to work with them. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. How did this happen?

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Philadelphia Miami Thailand Silicon Valley 335

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) They never understood Market Type.

Customer Development 196

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

Pascal's View

MARCH 14, 2011

In his view, board practices generally in the venture industry are substandard and there are few organized resources to guide board members, outside of the work done by the National Venture Capital Association under the leadership of Pascal Levensohn of Levensohn Venture Partners. and San Mateo, Calif.

Government 37

Government LLC Boston Venture Capital 37

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. Many ideas that were generated during Web 1.0 Now, with the Web in its third or fourth iteration (depending on who you talk to), many of these barriers have fallen. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

Silicon Valley 84

Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Why You Should Write. Some have made the model work.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. To keep growing, Coursera will pull from a rich venture-capital investment provided by two prominent firms.

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Pennsylvania Michigan California Venture Capital 40

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.

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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Because that company was Netscape, the company that released the first widely adopted web browser. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web. It was 1999.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

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. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. So why would raising venture capital be any different. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. Mobile Advertising : The shift from web-based browsing to mobile/tablet browsing benefited Facebook. New data from research firm Pitchbook makes it official: valuations are at an all-time high. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. LUBLIN And SPENCER E.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I really enjoy your posts – thank you for taking time to place your experiences up on the web. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. Good for you!!! Thank you for the example of how we should approach adversity.

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Agile Silicon Valley RSS California 245

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. The same absolutely can't be said for web content. It can’t be that.

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Product Clickthrough RSS Venture Capital 121

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

A big part of why venture capital actually is important and enduring is because the public market is flighty and late-stage investors are flighty, and customers for that matter are flighty, and so you can’t — if you are running one of these companies you can’t — you just can’t rely on people being balanced.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

It has raised $55 million from Lightspeed Ventures , Pitango Venture Capital , Sequoia Capital , Magma Venture Partners , Delta Ventures , Globespan Capital Partners, Ascend Technology Ventures, and Stata Venture Partners. – Learn more about its recent products: [link].

Venture Capital 74

Venture Capital Semantic New York 74

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

Silicon Valley 378

Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

Private Equity 87

Private Equity Equity PHP 87

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The Israeli Venture Capital funds are struggling to raise follow-on funds , but nevertheless it seems like Israel is holding up as an attractive startup hub as evidenced by Wired ranking of Israel in #2 for attractiveness to startups. In 2010, Qualcomm acquired Israeli mobile web company iSkoot for $50-100 million.

El Salvador 97

El Salvador San Diego Silicon Valley 97

Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Staying private  — The average age of a technology company before it goes public is 11 years, as opposed to an average life of four years back in 1999. Through the series of funding rounds, companies do not need to go through an IPO to obtain capital or a higher valuation. They can just go back to their investors for more capital.

Texas 48

Texas Startup Silicon Valley Bootstrapping 48

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

The web answers search engine, one of the world’s leading Q&A sites with 5.5 million registered members as of November 2010, was established in 1999 and recently hit its 10 million answers.

Private Equity 90

Private Equity China North America 90

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

It is important to note that using the one-day gains of “hot IPOs” to either attract new customers or wildly please the ones you already have is not a new concept.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. Regulation will come.

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Government Distribution Stock United States 280