YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

billion) in 2005. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization. It is projected that this may rise to 60% (4.9 billion) by 2030.

Technology 174

Technology Singapore Malaysia Indonesia 174

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2005, I wrote a post called Unfolding the Map in which I looked at these two seemingly opposing philosophies from successful entrepreneurs: If you don’t have a map, you can’t get lost If you don’t have a map, you can’t get where you’re going. This started back in 2000.

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Framework Partner Developer Employee 62

ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. The book was published in 2005.) Big businesses, Blank said, became so “focused on execution, they forgot how to innovate.”. The Evolution Of The Lean Startup. The lean startup model is not new.

Lean 60

Lean Startup Technical Review Business Model 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Here’s an example of how they made performance-based compensation work: If someone sold 100 cases in April 2000, and 100 cases in April 2001 (these numbers are unrealistically small for simplicity), their commission would be the same in both years.

Employee 208

Employee Leadership Technical Review Hiring 208

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 3, 2018

During the dot-com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed (before I started this blog in 2005), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches. At that stage, I had built a handful of websites. They were hobby.

Entrepreneur 43

Entrepreneur Business Model Internet Marketing 43

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash.

Boston 206

Boston Internet Entrepreneur .Net 206

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old. The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. That was up 29% over 2000 in just five years. It just doesn’t fit.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Deal Flow Atlanta Incubator 66

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Congrats! . link] Lincoln Coutts.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. It’s so nice there are other great VC bloggers who write this stuff so I can just point at it.

Cap Table 70

Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.) He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment.

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Cofounder Green Community Engineer 73

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Between the two of them they have co-founded IGN.com (IPO in 2000, acquired by NewsCorp in 2005), MyBlogLog (acquired by Yahoo in ’07) and Gnip (which I’m an investor in). Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time. Needless to say, I’m excited to see what happens as they join the BigDoor team.

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San Francisco Acquisition Cofounder IPO 115

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

I’d led the systems integration as CIO of the Gillette company into P&G in 2005, and run multi-billion dollar IT and Shared Services operations in every region of the world. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline. For decades, Domino’s played second fiddle to market leader Pizza Hut.

Philippines 124

Philippines Business Model Engineer Operations 124

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Finance Internet Web 143

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. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Oracle real Application Clusters, Qualys QualysGuard, SAP Business Objects Broadcast Scheduler, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 8.5, SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.8,

Software 48

Software SQL Colorado Fractional CTO 48

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. image source.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Mucker Lab

JULY 23, 2013

Today’s eBay looks vastly different than the eBay of the early 2000′s. But that playbook can only take the company so far as it had begun to saturate its initial market back in 2005. Today’s eBay is dominated by discounted commodity goods or in-season products. Auction is no longer the main focus of the company.

Chad 100

Chad Community Partner Search 100

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. In early 2006, my partners at Mobius and I decided not to raise another fund.

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LP Advisory Board Venture Capital Early Stage 155

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Support.com — On 2.5m Seven — On $60m invested, still private, cancelled an IPO.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. image source.

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

OnlyOnce

MAY 3, 2013

But Sophie Miller Audette, one of our first 20 employees going back to 2000 and the sixth longest tenured person at the company today, has decided to retire and move on to other adventures in her already rich life. The third, which can only be described as bittersweet, is that we had our first long-time employee retire!

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Delaware Leadership Employee Search 82

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 4, 2011

New or slightly used --Less than $2000 all in, including pedals and other gear --Probably not a full-on tri bike—but something I can take on 60mi trips and climb easily with. The big question is what to get, and I’m looking for some crowdsourced wisdom here. Here’s the criteria: --56 cm. Built for speed—fast and light. --New

Wiki 87

Wiki Social Media Media Product 87

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Popular eCommerce site Threadless has had a “feature request” thread on their customer forum since 2005. image source.

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. And then secondly was the text.

CTO 79

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. JVP initially invested less than $10 million in Qlik in 2005. ClickFox claims it is already profitable and that the proceeds of this round will be used to expand its sales and marketing efforts globally. The company has raised $46 million to date. JVP holds a 14.5

Stock 90

Stock Syndicate Syndication Database 90

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Mucker Lab

JULY 22, 2013

Today’s eBay looks vastly different than the eBay of the early 2000?s. But that playbook can only take the company so far as it had begun to saturate its initial market back in 2005. Today’s eBay is dominated by discounted commodity goods or in-season products. Auction is no longer the main focus of the company.

Chad 60

Chad Community Partner Search 60

Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

If you haven’t, the following brief video introduction is worth watching, but more importantly you just need to check out one of the 2000 or so videos on the site.

Operations 52

Operations California Venture Capital Video 52

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

This results in individuals losing up to $2000 per year in tax savings, and their employers losing billions more,” said Brian R. Previously, they held senior management positions at Works, a financial software company acquired by Bank of America in 2005. Smith, Managing Director of S3 Ventures. CrunchBase Information. S3 Ventures.

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Angel Investor Cofounder America Finance 69