View from Seed

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. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Business Taxes.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Employee PR 120

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. But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. I saw this firsthand with my own experience as an early PayPal employee. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Many founders assume employees will just figure out how their jobs work and do what needs to be done next. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. The World will conclude this list for today.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press.

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/29/2002: 82.5. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2000: 73.4 3/29/2002: 82.5 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/31/2000: 73.4 3/29/2002: 82.5 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

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

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. Ford’s advertising agency—Foote, Cone & Belding—solicited its employees to suggest names for the new car, offering the winner a car of their own as the prize. By 2002, New Coke was dead. The sock puppet’s most notable appearance was in an eyebrow-raising $1.2 What Went Wrong?

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006.

Southern California 162

Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. Internally, we also worked a lot on our general principles around the way we work for our employees, crowdsourcing them at a company offsite in 2013.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. The biggest value I can probably offer you is that I would talk about what youre working on. Jay Smooth. Kenyatta Cheese. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey. Maura Johnston. Natalie Podrazik.

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22