Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ link] dazhi chen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Angel Investor Silicon Valley Startup Portfolio 260

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. [scratches bald head]. At least it would be diversified across 25-30 companies--there's no such requirement in crowdfunding.

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Latvia Fiji Arizona SEC 110

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 10, 2012

Supposing this client is an early-stage startup — even if funded — the most likely event is that they stiff you! Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. But “lost interest” and a premium doesn’t solve the biggest problem with these terms.

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Founder CPA Startup Early Stage 291

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. at this stage.

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Part-Time VPE Sweat Equity DC Washington 41

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. At early stages you probably don’t have an assembly line and can’t clearly define any particular job. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

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. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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Community United States Colorado Social Media 162

The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Juan Pablo Cappello is an investor in more than twenty early stage companies. In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America. In 2000, the U.S. First, we need to stop building companies targeted to the 18 million (mainly rich) Latin Americans who were online in 2000.

America 164

America Canada Brazil Mexico 164

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. According to Statistic Brain , angel investors, numbering almost 300,000, contributed a record $25 billion to early-stage startups in the U.S.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. This got me to thinking: What would the ideal founding team at a web startup look like? Dec 26, 2009).

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

I won’t names names, but I see their ads on the web. Currently early stage startups all want the Facebook model – L U C K. After the 2000 crash Profit and Revenue came back into style, spawning and reinforcing real companies like Google and Salesforce.com which are Profitable and Grow.

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Early Stage Revenue Naming Web 22

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! This limits a little bit what we can track in web analytics tools. There are lots of micro-outcomes, in this case given most Pharma companies are still in the early stages of savvy, I choose something close to making money, Doctor Lookups.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. For everybody else I would encourage you to meet early and often.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” No other metric so holistically captures as many critical aspects of a web site – user design, usability, performance, convenience, ad effectiveness, net promoter score, customer satisfaction – all in a single measurement.

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Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

For more information, please visit our web site, [link]. Carmel’s investments are focused primarily on early stage companies in the fields of software, communications, Internet, digital media, semiconductors, and consumer electronics. About Carmel Ventures.

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Caching Venture Capital Private Equity 79

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. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2011

I’ve been writing code since I was 9 years old, and I’ve worn virtually every hat in the web business, from design to SEO to management. It turned out that this guy had a brilliant and original idea – online porn (this circa 2000, so hardly a revelation). What was your biggest learning curve/experience?

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Small Business Early Stage SEO Equity 75

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

B ootstrapping can be really hard for some early stage startups, but Israeli startup Enigmai , makes it seem easy. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment. VC Cafe: What about competition, how are you different or better? Adir : The competition is very young.

Cloud 134

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

B ootstrapping can be really hard for some early stage startups, but Israeli startup Enigmai , makes it seem easy. Competitors charge something approximately $2000-$3000 for what we deliver for free at the moment. VC Cafe: What about competition, how are you different or better? Adir : The competition is very young.

Cloud 134

Cloud South America Bootstrapping 134

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a web-based time tracking system. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95