Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Reasons: cost of sales executives, long sales cycles, deep functional requirements. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Biggest lessons …. But not one VC thought I should go after big, enterprise clients.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of my favorite lines in buried in the middle: “I’ve heard enough companies say “we simply can’t cut costs or it will hurt the long-term potential of the business” to get a wry smile. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005.

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Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

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. I don’t know about you, but my local Starbucks charges $2.13 profit on each cup.

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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. I don’t know about you, but my local Starbucks charges $2.13 profit on each cup.

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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. Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc? and no, we didn’t.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

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. I don’t know about you, but my local Starbucks charges $2.13 profit on each cup.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

billion in Federal funds for the implementation of IT in healthcare, which has shown to help lower our outrageous healthcare costs, reduce costly medical errors and improve patient outcomes. Providers and other entities are reluctant to adopt automation and technology, primarily because of costs and other barriers. Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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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. I don’t know about you, but my local Starbucks charges $2.13 profit on each cup.

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Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

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. I started saving and investing young, and have been fortunate with a strategic, low cost approach. Back in 2005 under Walker, Dialpad Communications, Inc., Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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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. In other words, they’re back to seeking product/market fit, and only an immense market (and excellent fit) will counterbalance their crushing costs and pay back past investments.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I n its 52 M&A deal since 2005 and its third acquisition announced in the past week, Oracle acquires Israel-based Convergin , developer of a real-time service brokering applications for the telecom industry. Convergin has raised around $10 million in VC funding from Pitango Venture Capital and Rich Investment in November 2008.

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Venture Capital IP Acquisition 79

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . Value add strategies make partners at VC firms more personally effective.

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Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. They had to decide whether and how to respond. EB : Yeah.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

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. Cost: $15 Members; $40 Non-members & Guests; please register by 3:00pm on May 24th.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

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. Organizations and employees using our services thus gain tax savings they can use to help offset the rising costs of health care. Smith, Managing Director of S3 Ventures.

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Angel Investor Cofounder America Finance 69

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

This 2005 documentary is an examination of the 2001 collapse of energy giant Enron, and details the dark side of actual business. In 2000, the 22,000 people on staff at Enron could be proud: they were spending their days at one of Fortune ‘s “100 Best Companies to Work For in America.” The Smartest Guys in the Room.

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America Bankruptcy United States Naming 169

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We had no point of sales system, we were literally taking IOUs in a cigar box from people for stuff like that because there was no electricity to actually run a cash register and we didn't have mobile registers back then in 2005. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money.

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Technical Review Balance Sheet Texas Austin 148

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. The pendulum swings to and fro. link] leehower. Great points.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Black came to New York in 2005, founded SustainabiliTV.com, producers of ‘The Business Case for Sustainability’ and produced several important films in Darfur and Nepal. In 2009 he founded KeyWifi a web company that enables redistribution of Internet bandwidth through a web-based platform. Thursday, June 16th.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 1, 2010

For the first five years, roughly from 2000 to 2005, my income from the Internet varied, reflecting the choices I had made and my own variable focus. From 2005 until the present my business structure changed rapidly, and my income also grew considerably. The Era Of Rapid Income Growth. www.membershipsitemastermind.com.

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Salary Internet Email Affiliate 74

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 2005, $3.0

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0 He currently holds NASD Series 7, Series 24, and Series 63 licenses. the 1990s.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

" Web 1999/2000. So as you can see, there are more sophisticated users, it costs significantly less to launch a new service/product, and many of the business models are proven to reach profitability. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often. Tech platform.

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Web API Open Source Business Model 60

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

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. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. The cost to run is very important too.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

The later stage guys may see a pickup about the same time as the Series A guys but I suspect it will take longer (like the recovery after the 2000 crash). The turning point will come when large corporations that buy these later stage companies have cleaned up their own balance sheets and are again looking for growth opportunities.

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Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. Evan is artist who is the creative genius who was working with the low-cost film medium in the late 90′s.

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Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Mostly I think new types of brokers will emerge and this will drive down transactions costs, improve services and make it easier to do business with people around the globe. Trust Between 1998–2000 the world became enamored with the “new economy” and Internet companies that were going public on NASDAQ in the United States.

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