ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

To create such a feeling make sure to: Avoid stock photos. don’t fake you only have 2 items in stock when you have a full warehouse). The most common example of distribution and information based scarcity used in luxury is one most brands should implement without exception: the “limited quantities available” message.

eCommerce 125

eCommerce Conversion Sales Technical Review 125

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. Within a year WAP became the laughing stock of the mobile industry. But you need to think in terms of broader distribution. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely. These phones were so over hyped. It was slow.

Flash 326

Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky. Suppose your bakery has six 50-ton silos to store flour. Whenever they empty out, you fill them up. At today’s prices, you’ve tied up $73,000. startupcto

Software Review 85

Software Review Software Database New York City 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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. The 2011 Top Lists.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

PayPal failed in 2000 at its stated mission to invent a new form of currency (though it pivoted to something else), but Bitcoin seems to be succeeding in 2016. WebVan failed at grocery delivery in 2000, but InstaCart might succeed in 2016. We can all name companies with spectacular success or failure, employing any of these techniques.

San Francisco 170

San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

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. The world of building profitable startups ended in 1995. SecondMarket , SharesPost , etc.). Tools in the New Bubble.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 334

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. Ex-cash it’s 13.5. On a forward basis (my estimates) it’s 8.3. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

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.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews. Stock Photography: Shutterstock. Unique Page Views helps us quantify content content consumption.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Eighteen months later, they sold the company to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock. By the year 2000, the global market for personal computers exceeded 140 million units a year. In the 25 years between 1975 and 2000, there were hundreds of brands of personal computers introduced in the American market.

Silicon Valley 96

Silicon Valley Business Plan Stock America 96

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

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.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. The answer is, they couldn't make any money trading, [or on] giving analyst support for small stocks because the spread got too small.". When small fluctuations in stock value changed from 12.5¢

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. and the U.K.,

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

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. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything. Plenty of headroom there!

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

A $125 million grant made in 2011 to K12 , a company developing educational software for online schooling and testing, led that week to the company’s highest stock price in an entire year. The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000.

Venture Capital 96

Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post. New Use Cases.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. They believe that stock picking is the most important function they can play. The top 2% do not drive 98% of the returns. Their data looks at tech VCs.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

as well as a more detailed description of the distribution of outcomes: Kauffman Foundation Angel Returns Study and NESTA Angel Investing Study. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. and the U.K.,

Angel Investor 103

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Is the sky the limit for Cloud public stocks? In 2000 and 2008, the economic crises had a dramatic impact on the tech ecosystem, but 2020 seems to be very different. This unprecedented growth is driven by the acceleration of digital transformation and an increase in valuation multiples which have reached historic heights.

Europe 71

Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

aweissman.com

APRIL 17, 2016

I’ve seen this before, as one of my first investments ever in 2000 was leading the first financing in SmarterChild , where that product and company faced many of these same questions. Given that it was 2000-2001, SmarterChild launched on the then dominant (only?) What did they see and do?

Green 20

Green Stock Distribution Conversion 20

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion.

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. We don’t have to sell our stock.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

This has presented a problem of the decision makers at resorts balking on spending 50K+ on an unproven idea, although we did a beta test around 2000 with 3 mountains that went well. for most seed investments, investors will put more stock in the person and the traction they get with the resources at hand. That’s your call.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44