The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Entrepreneurs who are considering starting their businesses might want to start by looking at this list of qualifications/requirements: The entrepreneur must have an idea for a product or service and understands how to make it happen. supermarkets).

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

But more interestingly I saw it in my twitter feed from some entrepreneurs and VCs who I respect a lot. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

If you're looking for a new podcast, the female startup club shares tips, tactics and strategies from the world's most successful female founders, entrepreneurs, and women in business to inspire you to, to action and get what you want out of your career. I've worked with the entrepreneurs organization in 26 countries.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild. and no, we didn’t.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you have probably heard or read the “maxim” that only 10% of startups are successful, but is this true? It can also happen the other way around when the entrepreneur launches the product late and can no longer compete. How can you avoid being part of the 90% of failed companies? Losing focus.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But for individual entrepreneurs who just have a good idea and big dreams, its easy to be misled into thinking that walking in the door with a fancy legal document makes you look professional or "serious". Now, Ive had clients ask for an NDA, which makes perfect sense, and I might ask contractors working for me to do the same. Lynne Johnson.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

From the introduction of our solutions in 2000 through September 30, 2006, our enterprise subscriber base has grown to approximately 1,500 companies who spend from $2,000 to more than $100,000 annually, including companies such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, Merrill Lynch, UPS and Cisco Systems. million for 2004, $1.9

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BeyondVC

JULY 23, 2006

Fred Wilson has a great post on remembering the old wounds from the last bubble in 2000. This is a vibrant area for discusssion – we never know the real answer as hindsight is 20/20 but it reminds me of a post I wrote back in March 2004 called Thoughts from PC Forum – going into attack mode.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Enter Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I was vice president of Tom’s company back in the ’90s, from ’94 to 2000. I first wrote about this model in my first book called The Radical Leap, which came out in its first edition way back in 2004. So Tom Peter’s is arguably one of the greatest management thinkers of our day. And I can’t do that.

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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.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. At stake: Power itself. Enlarge Image Close.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Stock Quotes. more in Small Business. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. It’s free.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. Daryl: Yaro, about how many visitors a month do you have to Entrepreneurs Journey now? I’ll talk about that later, because it has to do with one of the website deals I did.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

No better time than now to be an entrepreneur. All of our major institutions are being tested like never before, but as big as they are, as established as they are, as old as they are, remember they were built once by people, by entrepreneurs who brought that vision to reality. This is the moment for entrepreneurs.

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conversionxl.com

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Lots of entrepreneurs struggle with pricing. Well, in eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49 What’s the best way to sell a $2000 wristwatch? Ash Maurya , a startup entrepreneur, published an article on VentureHacks describing his pricing experiments with a photo sharing service.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

A serial entrepreneur, inventor and investor specializing in technology-enabled growth businesses, Mr. Stewart is the founder of Urgent Group, a venture development firm and the founder and managing director of Geometric Group, LLC and Urgent Ventures, LLC, both focused on seed-stage investments. 500 twice in the last three years.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia spurs growth and development by providing capital, professional support and mentoring to entrepreneurs and joint ventures that further regional collaboration and economic opportunity. 50/50 Startups – “We’re an incubator for equally owned tech ventures by Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs.”. Siraj Capital. Takwin Labs.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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