View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Their thesis is around creating better meat to address the most pressing challenges of our generation: climate change, food security, and health. Over the years, as Aryé started talking to me about this technology and the impact that it could have on so many different fields including food, I started looking into data on food security.

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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. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. Throw in some basic CRM processing and analytics, and merchants can get 90% of what loyalty programs provide, for a fraction of the cost. A new paradigm. Early results are exciting.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

But when I felt as if I was under assault in my position as an account executive and global account manager for the largest oil company in the world, I knew I had to do something for myself and my family’s well-being. . When 9/11 happened, we had finished our most profitable year in 2000. I became an entrepreneur. . Pay yourself.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

The funny thing about “hard numbers” is that they can give a false sense of security. For the market size, he states, “For my base case valuation, I’m going to assume that the primary market Uber is targeting is the global taxi and car-service market.” The global market would obviously be much larger. A couple’s night out.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

According to this source , the global proportion of urban population rose dramatically from 13% (220 million) in 1900, to 29% (732 million) in 1950, to 49% (3.2 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization. billion) in 2005.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

SAP Global Trade Services, SAP R/3, Other Technologies / ITO Agreements / IT Intel ABC has created a custom application server using Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle WebLogic Server called ABC Unified Strategic Information Optimization Network, or FUSION. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5, Oracle PeopleSoft 8.9,

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The current issue of Foreign Affairs features an important essay by Wesley Clark and Peter Levin (see bios below), Securing the Information Highway- How to Enhance the United States’ Electronic Defenses. The problem is not foreign sourcing; it is ensuring that foreign-made products are authentic and secure.”

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

We have companies now who have every store, globally or in a whole country, shuttered. And by Monday, we were able to put the footage out there in a secure way, in a way to share it with our members. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money. Yes, we’d like that.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade. In order to have a secure, decentralized means of transferring money between individuals you need a way of providing services that a modern centralized financial system would offer. This does not mean that all existing intermediaries go away.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

3GVision is the global leader in mobile barcode services that use the camera phone to scan barcodes. Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Adding Convergin products to Oracle Communications portfolio is expected to enable customers with next-generation solutions to address network migration to an all IP core at significantly lower integration and hardware costs. Formerly known as PhoneDo Networks, Convergin was founded in 2000. DVTel, Inc., DVTel, Inc.,

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. With that great decrease in cost to launch something, you have the emergence of all these new funds. The question is why? Two orders of magnitude. "Two

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. Mr. Weild holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business and a BA from Wesleyan University.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. What will a 1-second delay cost you? Back that with the global statistics that say web surfing on mobile devices will surpass desktop computers by 2015 , and you have a serious case on your hands. Part CDN, part security tool. Find the answer on the image below: Image credit.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Planzone – Secure and private collaborative project workspace to share files, manage tasks, and communicate with others. Xing XING – A global networking and contact management site for business professionals. CEOWorld.biz – Global networking for managers, entrepreneurs, and senior execs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2020

John Jantsch: Well, so that is, I’m thinking through as a listener here, that sounds great at the global level and I know that I benefit from all of that as a business owner, but what do you tell that local business owner, entrepreneur that says, okay, well what’s in that for me? that passed the house in the last Congress.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. 80% of IPO’s <$50MM.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. There is opportunity cost that should always be considered. the overseas business is a $billion security market.

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The government, especially DARPA , many university research departments, Xerox PARC (and Interval Research, where I worked briefly in 2000) have sunk a lot of time and money into this kind of research, in some cases billions of dollars, and a lot of this research not only available but free to all comers. So, not there yet. So inspiring post!

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