Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. Even lifetime entrepreneurs can decide that enough is enough. Liquidation and close.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Simply reduce regulation and taxes on small business investment and watch America’s entrepreneurs create all of the jobs America needs and more. #6. IPO volume since 2000. Walk this talk and demand and inspire others to do so too. #4. Support your Local Neighborhood IPO. A huge part of the malaise of the U.S. Think Globally.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

It’s an emotion most of us feel for different things – but that can be deadly and dangerous for an entrepreneur to feel about business. Being willing, even eager, to embrace and adapt to change is a serious competitive edge for any entrepreneur. Smart entrepreneurs will always adapt and compete efficiently.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. But, you can be sure that as an entrepreneur, each day will be loaded with new possibilities to challenge yourself, be innovative, and learn something new. Instead of watching TV or trolling the internet I thought I'd try my hands at coding.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

The rise of the on-demand webinar has happened over the last ten years. John Jantsch (01:31): So I feel like I gave a little taste of it there, but I feel like we should just have you kind of say here's been my entrepreneur journey. Key Takeaway: Webinars in the various formats they exist in have been around for years. Great question.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

Keith Rabois famously quipped , “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. I’m not paranoid, but I’m not going to post trade secrets on the Internet.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

How and why Customer Development shapes a startup was the subject of discussion with the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Jason Young is a serial entrepreneur who caught the startup bug as a kid. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Fifteen CFOs participated - about half of them from Bessemer portfolio SaaS companies (Cornerstone On Demand, Intacct. internet. (6). How the use of internet is transform. Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, you know, any of these visionaries and entrepreneurs here in America, if you ask 10 people for their opinion on Jeff Bezos, which I've done over the last three years of doing the research for my new book, you get 10 different opinions. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

One such business model is the “online marketplace,” an entirely new business category not possible (at scale) before the Internet. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

I think you and this is … Not to get too mad at here, but you is you the entrepreneur, you the CEO, the business owner, so you the listener. I think the 12 points here are given from individual entrepreneurs. This might be a little bit further down the line than the solo entrepreneur. Peter: I see. Jonathan: Right.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After the birth of my daughter. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. Photo Credit: Lisa Cash Hanson.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. Advisor Garage – A social network that connects entrepreneurs who need advice with advisors on just about any business-related topic.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

And what happens if you don’t get into the one VC that gets into Cornerstone On Demand (ffVC company, now the 10th largest SaaS company in the world)? This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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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* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As you can imagine, Israeli customers pretty demanding, which makes face to face customers a hard channel, but one we can learn a lot from. Our second acquisition channel is the Internet where we have seen significant traction from south America – about 70%. We are starting to think about business partnerships and affiliates.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As you can imagine, Israeli customers pretty demanding, which makes face to face customers a hard channel, but one we can learn a lot from. Our second acquisition channel is the Internet where we have seen significant traction from south America – about 70%. We are starting to think about business partnerships and affiliates.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

While today’s market is shared with a few companies like SOASTA, Keynote and Gomez who all offer testing as a service for larger enterprises, it is not adequate to meet the demand for a self-service solution. It’s quick, it’s on demand, it’s inexpensive – there is no longer a need to compromise on quality.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

. - Aerotel Medical Systems is a world leading manufacturer of modular, home and mobile telecare and telemedicine solutions designed to transfer essential data over the telephone, mobile phone and the Internet. Flash Networks’ Harmony Content Control enables safer, more productive mobile use of the open Internet for consumer or business use.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 21, 2012

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. There is no shortage of interesting consumer Internet ideas that will get funded, but I did really see a shift in the public mentality and VC mentality away from the consumer side.”

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But the main reason this happened in my mind was that the access to internet really made a big change in my life, because even when you're in the place of lowest access to education having access to other people online, mathematic problems, it allowed me to self-study. I think last week it changed from supplies to the demand.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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