Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing. Here’s hoping for 2014. It does seem as though all tech devices can perform much the same function. Now the only differentiator is size preference and UX. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/19/2014.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

Well, if you don’t, try on these IPO, M&A, and financing stats from 1st Quarter 2014: Initial Public Offerings: 72 companies went public in the U.S. in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Don’t you just love these booming markets?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

In the first quarter of 2014, the U.S. IPO market showed more activity than any other first quarter since 2000, with 64 companies raising $10.6 With 103 new filings during the quarter, the rest of 2014 is on track to keep up this record pace. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 5/30/2014.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

2014 is shaping up to be the Year of Results. We begin 2014 with a lot of optimism in the air. The NASDAQ is up 30% this year and achieved its highest level since September 2000. A year ago, I felt 2013 would be the Year of Grit - a year characterized by toughing things out in uncertain times.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. President Bieto, Dean Sauquet, members of the faculty, distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen….Thank

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. Andrew Macarthy wrote about social media use during the Mahabis launch.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The forecast also predicted that its 2014 sales were going to be equally uncompetitive. All the way from 1993 to 2000. The reason? An SOS sent out by shareholders and those in the top tier of the IT major after it reported the weakest of annual earnings for 2013. Enter outsourcing. Enter India. Image via JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 11, 2017

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. What group in the US numbers more than 80 million , has an annual buying power of $200 billion, and makes up nearly half of the US workforce ? Millennials. Millennials are the most diverse generation ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Mark pointed out that on the one hand 6 months ago one of Silicon Valley’s best known ibankers told him that SaaS public valuations were the most over-valued since the dot com bubble in 2000. But here is the deck I used to present before our panel if you haven’t seen it already: Final 2014 pre money deck from Mark Suster.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 7, 2014

total, and there’s still three months still left in 2014. To repeat a brief history of the UK venture industry that I’ve given before – the startup ecosystem only got started in the UK in the mid to late 1990s and was pummelled by the April 2000 internet crash when it was still in its infancy.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 28, 2015

It has taken us a long time to get over the 1999/2000 bubble and build a sustainable ecosystem. As the months go by the positive evidence is accumulating and I’m starting to think that 2014 or 2015 may be that year. These are two great charts!

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Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

He explained that we are now 50% of the way through the growing season for the 2014 vintage because the seeds in the grapes are now turning crunchy and hardening. Since we replanted the vineyard in 2000, this may be the earliest Levensohn harvest yet (our latest was just before Halloween in 2005). We don’t see this trend reversing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

Per a new study by networking giant Cisco , the world’s yearly mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014, reaching 2.5 This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

In 2000 “never heard of it” meant pass. In 2014, if there’s something I’ve never heard of, my heart quickens as I go to download the app, visit the URL, buy the hardware, etc'

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had seen the beginning of this evolution during the Internet boom…my first venture investment, in 2000, was in a company called Yodlee, which later went on to IPO and was eventually bought by Envestnet.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

At the beginning of 2014, my partners and I had a discussion about ways to sustain the pace of how we’ve been working. Since 2000, Amy and I take a week off the grid every quarter. I’m back after a one month sabbatical with Amy. We spent the month in Bora Bora, completely disconnected from everything.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. AppsWorld North America.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

If you do the math 2000 hours in a year, that's a hundred dollars an hour. This goes back to 2014 and all the way until we started and we were able to provide that service. Here's another way to think about it. Let's take a business owner making, let's just say $200,000 a year. So a successful business owner, right?

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2016

In 2014-2015 the unicorn market was over-funded, sparking intense competition, high burn rates, and as we are starting to see now, ultimately damaging returns. I first noticed it in late 2000 when the fund I was working for was invested in one of six high profile and highly funded enterprise portal businesses.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Gox imploded and China first shut down bitcoin exchanges in April 2014, when the price hovered around $400. Early in 2014, I launched FuturePerfect Ventures, an early stage venture fund, to invest in the infrastructure and early use cases around blockchain and other decentralized technology. I bought my first bitcoins after Mt.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Small Business Administration’s August 2017 Small Business Quarterly Bulletin , they’ve created two out of every three net new jobs since 2014. In 2000 he founded Studer Group, a consulting firm designed to help organizations improve results. According to the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. 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.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

As the number of Homebrew companies grow, some are preparing for a Series A in 2014 (we’ve backed more teams than are currently public on our website). Marc Andreessen and Eric Ries were tweeting how many of 1998-2000 web startup ideas failed but are succeeding now. Big market but wrong time vs right time.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. Founded in 2014 and based in Brooklyn, it has already produced some of my favourite podcasts: StartUp?—?Gimlet’s

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 percent from 2014 to 2020. 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. The population aged 65 years and older is expected to increase from 12.4 percent by 2030.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

by 2014, more than 70 percent of Global 2000 organizations will have at least one gamified application. Once it’s put into action, it helps customers enjoy interacting with companies. The more they’re recognized and rewarded, the more loyal they’ll be… and the more your organization will grow. According to Gartner, Inc.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Marc Mawhinney (01:54): Yeah, so I officially started March, 2014, so we're around eight years now. What eventually led me into start my coaching business in 2014, John Jantsch (02:41): You made a use the word, no, uh, noisy. I started my show in November of 2014. I touched, turned to crap instead of gold.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2015

Now, fast forward to 2014. Dick in 1956 to John Underkoffler in 2000 to Stephen Spielberg in 2002 making a movie about 2054, that lineage makes sense to me. Ok – got it – MIT roots in Minority Report – that makes sense. Dick wrote in 1956. I watched three movies in the last year purportedly about strong AI.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 12, 2014

1959-2000). anniversary in 2014. . - In 2012, Zoo Atlanta received the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) prestigious International Conservation Award in recognition of the long-term achievements of its giant panda program. - Zoo Atlanta also remains home to offspring of its best-known gorilla, Willie B. (ca.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever.

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