Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

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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. I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. When we started LinkedIn , it was a similar situation.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. We had just acquired a company (I don’t remember which one or in which city) sometime in 2000. While I learned a ton of finance lessons from the experience, I also learned a lot a leadership lessons.

Cofounder 70

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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. When we started LinkedIn, it was a similar situation.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Are the logistics manageable? Many tech products are hard to condense into a line or two, or even into a manageable deck. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Employee PR 120

Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 But during the year 2000, we went through three different CEOs, fraud nearly killed the company, our revenue was negligible and unproven, and at our worst point, the company was burning well over $10 million a month — A MONTH!

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

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.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. The management team wasn’t strong enough. If you became a principal or a new partner in 2000/01 you had a good salary but as it turns out you were very unlikely to see a large upside “carry” return for quite some time.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. By 2002, New Coke was dead. The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. What Went Wrong?

Sales 126

Sales IPO Texas Advertising 126

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing. An item’s price is the price. Or both things could be happening.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

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

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

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association. And Coursekit, a nascent challenger to Blackboard in the market for learning-management software.

Indiana 54

Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. Being enterprise scale means that your representatives have regular dialogue at CXO or at least VP level with Global 2000 accounts are they are bringing in millions of revenue from those accounts every year.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. The management team wasn’t strong enough. If you became a principal or a new partner in 2000/01 you had a good salary but as it turns out you were very unlikely to see a large upside “carry” return for quite some time.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

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. I started DBC because I found something to be able to work as efficiently as possible, without the corporate hierarchy of managers of managers.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Detroit Software Review Florida 102

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

So when Lulu started in 2002, so about 20 years ago, we just celebrated our 20th anniversary. So it's time management, like everybody listening to your podcast, you and I both we're all challenged by it, especially these days. What you're referring to is the stigma that came with self-publishing.

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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

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. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

Entrepreneur 308

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Instead management was more comfortable executing to the plan. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. It All Came Crashing Down.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns. So at a fund level (e.g.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 8, 2016

Formed in 2000 October Kitchen in Connecticut’s Premier meal delivery service serving central Connecticut. She has owned and run 3 businesses of her own and in 2002 became a certified business coach with Action Coach, formerly ACTION INTERNATIONAL. Chef Paul Finney is the owner and creator of the October Kitchen Chef Service.

Connecticut 60

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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

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Bernard, M.,

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Moreover, the American labor force gained over ten million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2011. Of course, much of the losses in wages and salaries were a result of the recession but the proprietor trend has steadily increased every year since 2000.

Silicon Valley 208

Silicon Valley API Cofounder Salary 208

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. In your first M&A, it’s easy to believe you can manage two brands and two platforms. The company managed to make it happen in just a few weeks.

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