The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It had survived the global financial crisis without taking a fatal hit, the client base was steady if marginally declining and the numbers that matter were looking up again. All the way from 1993 to 2000. There were engineers of all types—mechanical, civil, electrical etc., and the non-engineering kinds.

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India Technical Review Management Cloud 165

Hearpreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

2- Personal inspiration Photo Credit: Terina Nicole I launched my business 23 years ago in the year 2000. The primary objective was to devise a business moniker that is readily memorable and efficiently optimized for search engines, while concurrently possessing a branding advantage due to its simplistic nomenclature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The emerging “industrial Internet” revolution, enabled by the convergence of networking and information technology with engineered physical systems and associated services, is enabling a new generation of “smart systems” and an innovation-based growth engine for the U.S. ProjectOpenData on Twitter.

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Fractional CTO Government Technical Review Analytics 158

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. Loyalty experts add social media to their programs in the same way that 19 th century engineers added combustion engines to their existing carriages. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Estrin has hired numerous engineers over her career, but has found, to no surprise, that it is "harder to find technical women , especially in computer science.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

This no longer the case – the lean startup concept is being embraced by companies large and small, and is now taught at business schools globally. Blank first started piecing together the concept in 2000 and created The Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2003. Keep Failing Fast Til You Succeed. The Evolution Of The Lean Startup.

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Lean Startup Technical Review Business Model 60

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. That said, for every set of global challenges there are entrepreneurs dreaming of solutions, solving big problems and ready to lead us into the next 20 years.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We were mostly selling our product to engineers. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. There are 500 Fortune 500 companies and there are global 2000, and there are another maybe 1 million small and medium businesses in the world.

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Cofounder Silicon Valley Entrepreneur EC2 274

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages. Do more faster. Emerge stronger. You can do this. Or even working for one?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal. And then in the middle 2000’s Domino’s began a sharp decline.

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Philippines Business Model Engineer Operations 124

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. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. However, we needed a head of engineering to recruit and lead a larger team to accomplish our larger goals. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. In the 1990s the U.S.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I grew up on a family potato farm in SE Idaho and I have a PhD in Engineering from Stanford (also known as The Farm). Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Over 450 companies have been honored since the award began in 2000, and past winners include Twitter and crisis mapping platform Ushahidi. An international non-profit, the World Economic Forum's motto is "entrepreneurship in the global public interest." . - World Economic Forum.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

They might know executives, but not engineers. These presentations resulted in more than 3,000 introductions between portfolio companies and prospective Fortune 500/Global 2000 senior executives. They may know customers, but not have deep relationships with key reporters. As founding CEO, one tends to be busy.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.

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Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. We are deluged by data and information and this “big data” is only going to proliferate.

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Venture Capital Mobile Vertical Algorithm 88

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

This week saw several of them get global recognition. Its polymorphic engine scrambles the application’s runtime environment randomly and without a trace, making the memory space unpredictable to attackers. It seems to be the season for startup lists and the glory hasn’t skipped Israeli startups.

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Artificial Inteligence Global Startup Algorithm 145

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. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Since 2011, Kimberly has helped Black Girl CODE grow from a local organization serving only the Bay Area, to an international non-profit organization with chapters in 7 US cities and Johannesburg, South Africa serving over 2000 African/African-American, Latina, and Native American girls.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. Entrepreneurs now can think globally about the opportunity, from day one but start locally. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 29, 2011

Today, Cirtex is a leading web hosting provider hosting over 100,000 domains globally. His work was crucial in building Microsoft SQL Server 2000. He is currently serving as principal engineer at Amazon. He has years of experience in SEO, online marketing, operations and management. John is currently a senior at Babson College.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As the president of Content at Scale , Julia is spearheading major initiatives for what’s quickly become one of the most sought-after AI content writing tools for SEO marketers globally. So everything that I needed in one place, and it's writing really good content all there in five minutes, a 2000 word piece.

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SEO Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Video 63

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. 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. WP Engine – Web hosting made for WordPress. 8% of people cite slow loading pages as a key reason for abandoning their purchase.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Was this going to happen anyway?

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The rapacious credit derivative and mortgage market financial engineers should have succeeded in proving the dangers of ‘one-size-fits-all’ thinking– to the world’s great detriment. Innovation is global, and risk capital is mobile. And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

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Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter. More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once.

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Entrepreneur Non-Compete Internet Dilution 90

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 2000: Regulation FD was passed to create a “level playing field”, reacting against whisper numbers, favored research analysts, and the “hedge fund information advantage”—all in the name of giving everyone simultaneous access to the same corporate disclosures—which absolutely did not happen.

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. Thanks to Susan Smith, Velden Engineering ! #5- 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it.

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Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 146

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. Its at least worth a $1.99

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100