Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. In 2002, when most of my VC and entrepreneurial colleagues were having a terrible year, I acknowledged how much I had struggled in 2001, although I was still relatively discreet about it.

San Francisco 70

San Francisco Startup New York City Denver 70

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Austin, as a city, has been one of the fastest-growing cities for years due to University of Texas, a reputable live music and food scene from Grammy-nominated Black Pumas to James Beard-nominated Tyson Cole and a thriving tech and consumer product goods companies that count Indeed, Bumble, Tito’s and Whole Foods among its winners.

Austin 118

Austin San Francisco Texas Technical Review 118

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. And I think that's a benefit that you can turn your $14 book into, you know, 14, you know, million dollars, you know, worth of other products, isn't it? What you're referring to is the stigma that came with self-publishing.

Audience 88

Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. We care about our country and the people in it; if we were only in it for money we would move our production overseas.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Detroit Software Review Florida 98

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Not in a 2021 tweet covering Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of the metaverse, but in an early 2000’s magazine article forecasting a rosy future for the virtual world Second Life (SL). I hope it doesn’t get lost just because it’s ‘old’ (2002–2009). I was working there at the time, a young team member in his first startup post-grad school.

Forecast 96

Forecast Hosting Engineer Design 96

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

An argument has been raging for decades within the scientific and typographic communities on what seems a very insignificant issue: Do serifs contribute to the legibility of typefaces, and by definition, are sans serif typefaces less legible? Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002).

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, the company’s community-based model showed strong resilience while the importance of its culture and values shone through. Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002.

Global 62

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