Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. link] leehower.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

exabytes per month (or 134 exabytes annually) by 2017, according to he Cisco® Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2012 to 2017. Or 134 times all the Internet Protocol traffic (fixed and mobile) generated in the year 2000. billion in 2012). “How much is 134 exabytes, exactly?”,

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO. In 2000, the SEC adopted Regulation FD in response to growing concerns regarding “ selective disclosure.”

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Genuine VC

MARCH 26, 2012

Over the past decade, VCs have been lamenting about the poor state of the IPO markets and that the number of real potential acquirers for consumer internet startups has dwindled down to a handful, if that. Overall, a much more positive picture than the late 2000’s.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 26, 2012

Over the past decade, VCs have been lamenting about the poor state of the IPO markets and that the number of real potential acquirers for consumer internet startups has dwindled down to a handful, if that. Overall, a much more positive picture than the late 2000’s.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. Importantly as well, the positive implications of the 2012 JOBS Act cannot be understated.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 21, 2012

For consumer-oriented startups, 2012 came in like a lion, but left like a whimpering lamb. For perspective on 2012, we talked to Jeff Fagnan, partner at leading venture capital firm Atlas Venture and an investor in early-stage startups since 2000. AngelList transformed the startup landscape in 2012. Blame Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Update March 2012: See also my expanded critique of Colin Wheildon’s legibility research. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Alex Poole says: March 8, 2012 at 4:50 pm. ← How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks? Give direction → Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces? 1998 , Bernard et al.,

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Facebook now exceeds a billion users posting, the Internet has 650 million websites, and there are 200 e-Commerce items ordered every second. Every day, we create 2.5 That’s a lot of data to analyze.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

What we refer to as the PC era (the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000′s) was not just the desktop phase era but more accurately a desktop corporate computing era. It was only in 2000 that a majority of of US homes had a computer. 10 July 2012, 7:05 pm Why Do VC’s Have Ownership Targets? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

We were all investing in Internet-related stuff at the end of the 1990s. Jerry and Fred had one of the most successful VC funds during this time period until the Internet bubble burst and blew us all up for a while. 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows. Over 2000 proposals have been reviewed and over 40 investments made across the world in a wide range of sectors, with many more under negotiation.

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

Painting the scenario of how things will evolve, Cort Isernhagen of IDC Insights forecasted at the recent Infocomm Technology Roadmap Symposium 2012 that the ICT landscape over the next 10 years needs to consider four macro trends supported by four key pillars of technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 24, 2012

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Consider Silicon Valley, circa 2012. Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders. It’s Still A Man’s World.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2012

Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program. Summer 2012) Russia – Alpina (July 2012) Thailand - WeLearn Korea – Insight Press China - China Citic Press For iGAP participants only.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

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. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago? How To Think About The Future.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Copyright 2012 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services. See a sample reprint in PDF format. SMALL BUSINESS.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

The major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform will hit in the next 8 years; 3) the economics of building Internet businesses has changed; 4) the markets are much bigger. billion dollars while admitting it will have operating losses through the end of fiscal 2012.)

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 312

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

About 79% of American households have personal computers, 58% of Americans have smartphones, and 42% have tablets, according to Pew Internet and the US Census Bureau. Not only that but mobile traffic is now 18 times the size of the entire internet traffic from 2000. According to Cisco, Mobile Traffic grew by 81% in 2013.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 2, 2013

In the US, newspaper revenues in 2012 were half what they were in 2000. This is a global trend: newspapers in Brazil, Germany and elsewhere are fed up with giving away their articles for nothing on the internet. Unfortunately, it is only getting worse.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

They permitted attackers to execute arbitrary code on virtually ever Ruby on Rails application, without requiring that the application do anything to enable the attack other than “be hooked up to the Internet.” In the worst case, attackers root every unpatched Rails app on the Internet. Was anyone actually compromised?

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Security Software Review Ruby Startup 101

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. A version of this article appeared July 11, 2012, on page B1 in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. The advent of GPS, the always-on Internet and social networks enable finding things in real time from people you somewhat trust. © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Thats real money." Travel Tips. Contact us.

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? Public market holdings aren't dominated by internet companies with questionable business models the way they were in the late 90's. When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. This brings to mind a bigger question of where we're going from here. Valuations.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

A Wall Street Journal piece from April 2012 reports on the impact of $16 million in venture capital awarded to Coursera to increase the scope of the program. The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000.

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Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. When I got depressed again at the end of 2012, I was open about it this time as it was happening and throughout the process. 11 through the end of the year.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

No one was catering to the thousands of parents that were taking to the internet instead of the yellow pages or your neighbor’s recommendation. After leaving Goldman in 2012, I began building the first iteration of Rukkus based on his belief that there was a need for a more transparent and informative ticketing platform.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 24, 2012

Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Consider Silicon Valley, circa 2012. She points out that while women use the Internet 17% more than men do and create two-thirds of the content at social media sites, they earn only 14% of computer science degrees. “At

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New York City Silicon Valley New York API 65

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 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.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Valuation Portfolio 48

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

For the twenty years ending 12/31/2012 the S&P 500 Index averaged 8.21% a year, an attractive return. This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets. This is a key reason why the average retail investor consistently earns below-average returns.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114