ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

The biggest new trends, according to a 2015 Gartner study , are cloud, mobility and the use of data and AI in decision-making. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. There’s a lot we can do online to help our sales teams close deals.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. 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.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gramercy Park in June 2015. The photo above is from the day before Fitbit went public in June 2015. I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC. After 89 years on this planet, Len Fassler passed away on Friday. Len was my Yoda. As a paternal figure, he was a close second to my father.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 5, 2016

I discovered Skytop in 2000. Fast forward to 2015 – the collapse of Skytop in every way imaginable. In fact, it was one that I anxiously anticipated since I am working on an upcoming book about attracting lifelong customers. I thought Skytop would be an exemplary model for this exact goal. Sadly, it is not. We continued to return.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I have been active in this “market” since 2015 and in a bull market everyone feels like a genius. Everything happens in the tails – 2000 to 2008 was nothing compared to 2008-2000. Nobody loves cash in a bull market – going against the grain in these conditions is hard.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

The launching of the site took happened in the year 2000, and since then, it continues to leave a mark in the people’s lives. It made £1.5bn in 2015. It offers a wide range of games composed of incredible graphics, animations, and sound effects.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Sometime in the spring of 2000, all of them hit their peak stock price. But he didn’t really address the emotional dynamics. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.) The rain to the wind said, ‘You push and I’ll pelt.’

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. As evidence that it does work, VentureBeat calculated in 2015 that YCombinator startups had raised over $7 billion, with a $65 billion total valuation. That’s about the same ratio that Angel investors claim.

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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. It spans the time frame from 1985 – 2015 which you can just lay down on the Gartner Hype Cycle. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment. You can apply this to pretty much anything in tech. Ponder where you end up.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

However, that’s a cyclical dysfunction which hit notable peaks in 2000 and 2015 and which needs to be understood as an unfortunate part of a larger system which overall has been an incredibly positive force for good.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2016

Moreover, we are still at a high level of investment when compared with any period except the last couple of years and the 1998-2000 bubble. The other interesting thing to emerge is that investment in the Bay Area is falling faster than everywhere else – Q1 2016 is 20% down on Q1 2015.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I had alluded to this in a piece I wrote in 2015 – Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?: “Twenty years from now, we will see disintermediation of banks, and millenials will no longer recognize the current banking system as they will receive financial services from a number of new entrants in the technology sector.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction. Mobile Q4: The scramble for spectrum continues Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Carrier IQ and the continued erosion of operator trust. Image courtesy Flickr user Lazurite.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

South Korea only recently started exploring regulation, for instance, while Sweden has been offering derivatives in Bitcoin since 2015. In November 2000, an index of 280 internet stocks was down by $1.7 The international scope of this marketplace presents both unique challenges and an array of opportunities.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Couchsurfing was launched in mid 2000. I started getting it developed from 2015, by paying from my own pocket. Hospitality network got famous all over the world about a decade back. It got lots of travelers worldwide as users of that website, which became a great community. Hence, International Travelers was born: [link].

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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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Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

Transformify HR Blog : Started: 2015. HRZone: Started: 2000. Author: Meghan Biro ( Guest Blogging ). Posts About 5x week. Guest Blogging. Posts About 3x week. HR Bartender: Started: 2008. Author: Sharlyn Lauby. Posts 3-4x a week. TalentHQ: Started: 2008. Author: Jason Buss. Posts ~1x a month. Author: Jamie Lawrence.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

He used this chart as evidence: Second, I read Josh Kopelman’s/First Round Capital’s Open Letter to Investors from May this year which says that seed valuations are up 3x from 2007-2015 without a corresponding increase in exits. Note that we can see a similar increase in Series A valuations in Fred’s chart above.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In 2000 he founded Studer Group, a consulting firm designed to help organizations improve results. By the time Studer Group was sold in 2015, it had 250 employees and $93 million in yearly revenue. Over the years it won multiple awards, including the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

From 2010 through 2015, the industry saw a moderate but steady four percent growth. percent in 2000 to 19.6 In the United States alone, the home health care industry is an $84 billion behemoth with no signs of slowing down. This growth is due, in large part, to an aging U.S. population. percent by 2030.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 17, 2017

I spent 2015 working alongside one of these super-hustler sales guys that technical founders dream of. You obviously need some extra time to get started[2], and then every founder understandably wants their business to move as quickly as possible. But to move fast, they tend to keep everyone (and especially themselves) very busy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

According to the 2015 ISACA IT Risk/Reward Barometer the majority of U.S. 1] Connexity, Nearly 2/3 American Shoppers Don’t Trust Retailers With Their Payment & Personal Information , February 3, 2015. [2] 2] ISACA, ISACA’s 2015 IT Risk/Reward Barometer , 2015. 1] But has pubic concern inspired action?

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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. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

It wasn’t enough at the end of 2015 to have a working prototype and a handful of customers to somehow take over the market. Long story short, it’s just not 2000's anymore. We needed more people (not a ton, but 2-3) to really see our vision through and to build something we were proud of. The quality bar has never been higher.

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Hippoland

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2000, we had the dot com bust. But, if you are a seed stage startup with an idea and zero traction or if your unit metrics don’t quite look good or if your growth is say 5% MoM, it will be a lot more challenging for you to raise in 2016 that say it was in May 2015. What is different between now and 2008? What do you suggest?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Started in 2015, Backstage has now invested nearly $5M into 100 startups led by underestimated founders and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Inc., Entrepreneur, and Quartz.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 17, 2015

By my definition, Reindeer are tech companies founded since 2000 that have created more than $2 billion in market value. Two years ago, I pointed out that there were only three companies that had achieved > $1 billion in value in the tech sector founded since 2000 (i.e., I'm Jewish, so I confess that I had to look that one up).

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. Many of the respondents for Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2015 Asia report – in fact, almost half – comes from India.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

I wish I made bigger bets on cryptocurrency when I discussed it in my first book in 2014 and blogged about it here in 2015. Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? The bust started on March 11th in 2000. When fortunes are made seemingly overnight, FOMO is inevitable. This in turn leads to risky speculation.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. In 2015, Eric was selected by his colleagues as the Certified Tax Coach of the Year. Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

So in 2015, we launched Carusele to apply digital media targeting to influencer marketing. Since going incorporated in 2015, I’ve helped scale up several small businesses in the Chicagoland area. So I went home to my comfortable 2000 square foot UWS apartment and thought, what can I do myself, from home, and still make a good living.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. Employment lags economic output and is an admittedly imperfect indicator, but if you continue the analogy, it may be that the next 4-5 year boom cycle lasts until 2015!

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

Founded in 2015 by Ariel Rosenfeld. Founded in 2015 by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger (who just took Fiverr, a company he co-founded, public last year). Founded in 2015 by Amit Bendov and Eilon Reshef. Below are the ‘winners’, who were recognised this past week: World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2020.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. In 2015, Eric was selected by his colleagues as the Certified Tax Coach of the Year. Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD).

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. In 2015, Eric was selected by his colleagues as the Certified Tax Coach of the Year. Profitability is the main key to business success. Some analysts say right now is as tough a time as any to be an independent bicycle dealer (IBD).

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