Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Options are gravy - I lived through the first dot com era where we used stock options as a recruiting tool. I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. So I developed this standard line that I used for all employees. We give out stock options. Then go ahead. Quickly dissecting.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). Our business development discussions took longer than planned. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove. We downsized, developed processes and found our groove. We were hot.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

When I hear the word ‘startup’, my mind immediately begins playing a reel of a bunch of twenty-something year old web developers, huddled together in a retro office somewhere in the SF Bay Area. The point is, in a traditional business (not a startup), you don’t need an exit strategy at the start. Is a startup business right for you?

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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. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The two decades from 1979 when pension funds fueled the expansion of venture capital to 2000 when the dot-com bubble burst were the Golden Age for entrepreneurs and venture capital firms. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Here’s why. Source: NVCA.).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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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. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

On the other hand, you shouldn’t be in a hurry to increase your earnings from $1000 to $2000. If you are confused between stock and forex trading, then it’s better to try both options. Apart from understanding the market, you would be able to develop your abilities and skills.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Durkin, who works with many young high-tech companies, says that he sees such start-ups generally putting aside about 20% of their stock into a pool.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here’s a definition of drop shipping from the Shopify blog : Drop shipping is a retail method in which you don’t keep products in stock. Instead, you partner with a wholesale supplier that stocks its own inventory – you transfer customer orders and shipment details to them, and they ship the goods directly to the customer.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. As the company grows, the initial package of stock options offered to new hires will be lower and lower.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Our oceans are regularly overfished, nearly 90% of the world’s marine fish stocks are now fully exploited , overexploited or depleted. What I experienced in Afghanistan really stayed with me, and one of the things that I noted was that meat prices have been steadily climbing since about 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Here is a telling statement from an analyst on Apple’s most recent quarter: Apple’s stock price to earnings ratio has dropped to 16.72. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Secondly, developers are more productive. Ex-cash it’s 13.5. On a forward basis (my estimates) it’s 8.3.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Our work spans everything from technology strategy and needs analysis to systems development and ongoing maintenance. In 2000, Louisiana gave our five-person company (at that time) a multimillion-dollar contract to implement a mission-critical system. We help clients with their most complex business challenges. That’s awesome.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Support.com — On 2.5m

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2015

Netflix shares have doubled this year, culminating with a 7 for 1 stock split yesterday. In 2000, three years after Netflix launched DVD rental services, Netflix used customer data and ratings from their movie recommendation system to predict content choices for all Netflix members. Netflix uses data to develop product strategy.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Founded in 2000, Clickfox was started by Tal Cohen and Nissim Harel. JVP holds a 14.5

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

12:18] What’s been your inspiration in terms of the development of your own time management? [15:55] And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. The clean, the inventory room, stock everything correctly. What's been your inspiration for developing that. To the owners.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Behind the scenes, we’ve seen much development progress. To cap off the news, this morning Ethereum developers approved upgrades for the much awaited Constantinople release in October (links below for more detail). The writer would have probably written a similar piece about the internet in 2000.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

Venture capital and other forms of seed funding have been crucial for the development of the best online colleges. The same is true of educational technology developers. Many smaller development firms receive seed funding to develop technologies used by public and private schools across America.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

annually for the period 1982-1999, has since 2000 slowed to a mere 1.8%. Not coincidentally, in that same period stock market returns have declined dramatically. The developing world continues to maintain rates of growth and virgin and nascent market opportunities probably never again to be seen again nearer to home.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2010

It helped that my elementary school teacher recommended I join a school with special emphasis on artistic development. Not only that, but get this: my primary design tools are AutoCad 2000 and Paint Shop Pro 7. Some of you weren’t even BORN yet.) What are the challenges of being a photographer in the age of stock.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. In order to compete, the company spent millions of dollars to send its researchers into the field on a quest to develop a new mid-priced brand that would fill the gap in its own stable of cars. Who cares?!

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

… We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. The problem is, that it is the capital intensive stocks in manufacturing that create most of the jobs and these companies are overwhelmingly “Supply Push.” It is intentional.

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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. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Successful private companies such as Facebook and Zynga now have active secondary markets in their stock, blurring the meaning of their ‘private’ status. Confirmed Panelists David Weild, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market (moderator) Barry Silbert, CEO, Secondmarket.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

But stock indexes continue to slide and the unemployment numbers are getting worse. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Austin has shed some of the innocence of its youth as a city circa 1970 through 2000 and replaced it with socio-economic stratification and segregation of its growth, post-2000. I know this as someone who has sampled and dove deeply into lots of versions of life in Austin.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. Many other approaches develop all of the time. Now let’s get back to the business of selling more product and less stock! The distribution of returns from the different U.S.

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