David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Sudden change.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006). For many, it’s been a struggle. But the Affordable Care Act has changed the game.

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603. Wiltbank: “Siding with the Angels: Business angel investing – promising outcomes and effective strategies” 1080. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2008: A Down Year in Investment Dollars But Not in Deals” Unknown.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Digital music has also changed over time, thanks to streaming services like Spotify or Pandora, which took hold since their introduction in 2006 and 2002. For starters, there are more startups. What’s behind this boom?

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Startup Social Media Global Incubator 125

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2019

The company has been in operation since the year 2000 with its headquarters in New York City. It has been having various acquisitions in the past years where it acquired BellSouth in 2006 and DirectTV in mid-2015. This happens to be one of the largest telecommunication companies in the United States. And GTE Corp.

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United Kingdom United States China France 113

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Since its 2006 foundation, YETI has built over 90K LinkedIn followers and 125.7K You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. Twitter followers.

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Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000.

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United States San Francisco Afghanistan Seattle 120

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

In 2006, Google bought @Last (makers of SketchUp). He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment. While Scott and I don’t spend a lot of time together, we’ve both been part of the evolution of the Boulder startup community going back to the late 1990s.

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Cofounder Green Community Engineer 73

Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

This is very similar of where these comps were in 2006 when I started in venture. However, in my view, the qualities of the companies and the globalization of the market makes the situation different from 2000. For example, if you look at SaaS comps, the average FWD revenue multiple is around 5.4x for a growth rate of 25%.

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Valuation Venture Capital Mobile Global 48

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

HRZone: Started: 2000. The HR Capitalist: Started: 2006. Author: Sharlyn Lauby. Posts 3-4x a week. TalentHQ: Started: 2008. Author: Jason Buss. Posts ~1x a month. Author: Jamie Lawrence. Posts Several daily. Author: Kris Dunn. Posts About 5x week. HR Ringleader: Started: 2008. Author: Trish McFarlane. Posts ~5x a week.

Aggregator 40

Aggregator Asia India Community 40

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. million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

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. million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself. I moved on to focusing solely on real estate by May of 2006, having sold my FedEx business, which I had grown to include 3 trucks.

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America Florida New York New York City 100

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. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Mucker Lab

JULY 23, 2013

Today’s eBay looks vastly different than the eBay of the early 2000′s. It took eBay almost 5 years (2006 – 2011) to pivot into the NEW eBay, a merchandizing and payments juggernaut capable of taking on Amazon. Today’s eBay is dominated by discounted commodity goods or in-season products.

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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

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. million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

Scott Edward Walker

JULY 19, 2015

This week, we share the amazing story of the New Horizons spacecraft’s flight to Pluto, which began with its launch in 2006 and covered three billion miles. In 2000, the price tag for the latest incarnation, called Pluto-Kuiper Express, appeared to be getting out of control. Fast forward to last Tuesday and… mission accomplished!

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur New York Business Model Video 40

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. million in 2006 – only one year after implementing the customer feedback forum. image source. Forget about your company for a second and think about the companies you do business with….

Retention 98

Retention Customer Developer Programming 98

Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) predicts that two-thirds of nurses in Canada will be working in the community by 2020, compared to 30 percent in 2006. From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population.

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North America United States Technical Review America 95

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Second, the capital markets over the last six years have been willing to support them (as compared to the capital markets between 2000 and 2006 which wouldn’t have). It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Cofounder Finance Internet Founder 78

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Second, the capital markets over the last six years have been willing to support them (as compared to the capital markets between 2000 and 2006 which wouldn''t have). It was the era of “go big or go home.”

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Internet Finance Founder 78

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He joined Oversee in 2006 as Executive Vice President respon sible for DomainSponsor, the company’s industry-leading traffic monetization business. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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. It took eBay almost 5 years (2006 – 2011) to pivot into the NEW eBay, a merchandizing and payments juggernaut capable of taking on Amazon. Today’s eBay is dominated by discounted commodity goods or in-season products.

Chad 60

Chad Community Partner Search 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

My Story: The public coming out for my first company, BuildOnline, was in early 2000. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. Fame and adoration corrupts first timers. And if you’re not careful you might start to believe your own hype. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) I had a plan.

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South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 12, 2014

1959-2000). ’s three grandchildren, Macy Baby (December 2005) and Merry Leigh (May 2011), born to Kudzoo, and Gunther (July 2006), born to Sukari. - Zoo Atlanta also remains home to offspring of its best-known gorilla, Willie B. (ca. The zoo is also home to Willie B.’s

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Atlanta North America Africa Asia 52

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. Though they only started in 2006, Foundry’s obviously off to a great start with investments in Zynga and AdMeld and a promising portfolio of others.

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Cofounder Limited Partner Early Stage LP 193

Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 19, 2013

Now, if I was having this experience in 2006, I wouldn’t even think twice about it. What I just described is pretty much every Windows users’ experience in the mid-2000′s (and maybe still today). At least five times a day the device locks up and I have to wait 10 to 15 seconds for it to wake back up.

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Mobile Software 56

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

I wrote my first, I don’t think I wrote my first book until 2006, so you wrote yours about 10 years before that maybe, on a topic that was just getting started, internet marketing. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter. So what’s, for you, what’s changed about book writing?

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Flash Software Review Naming Los Angeles 74

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/31/2006: 22.8. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. If markets behave rationally, one might expect the ratio of price to earnings to be reasonably stable over the period (click here for complete data set). One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

There was also no hardware to make small videos at the same pace as the mid 2000’s. Using the Flip example (launched in 2006) there was suddenly a very affordable digital video camera that you could instantly connect via USB. Think about the explosion of digital video recorders (remember Flip cams?)

Technology 60

Technology Flash Early Stage Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. I read Andy’s post with a knowing smile on my face. But VC is like congress. It is changing.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

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.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point. ► 2006. (7). So were do we go from here? ► 02/11 - 02/18. (2). Get your own helicopter for $50!

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Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He served as director for the Human Computer Interaction Lab on campus from 2000-2006. The contest represents a way to “harness our campus community’s broad creativity,&# says Ben Bederson, contest chair and assistant professor of computer science.

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Maryland Mobile Developer Programming 39