ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Mayor Boris Johnson said: These figures show, without any question, that this is an incredible period for technology firms in our city. We’ve been growing and recovering since then, but the markets have been tough and we’ve been subscale. And I have to agree. Things are definitely getting much better.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. 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. Here’s why. Source: NVCA.).

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. municipal bond market. Hospital System Roots.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Marketing isn’t scheduling a launch and recruiting isn’t timing the start-dates of the next 50 hires in customer service and sales. — optimize myopically for speed-to-market. A marketing campaign that adds two sign-ups/week is a success. This means you can — and should! Almost anything you do, counts.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

4- Provide intelligence to the government and the public. Government and the American public. After taking several years away from having a normal law firm employer to help family, while working as a freelance lawyer & writer for other law firms, the job market for lawyers was terrible. Photo Credit: Everett Stern.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. You may be in the wrong market at first. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Prior to Tachyus, Dakin co-founded OpenGov , a platform to share, visualize, and analyze government financial data. Before OpenGov, he built California Common Sense , the open data and government watchdog non-profit. You may be in the wrong market at first. Dakin was recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016. .

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Similarly, there are resilient, well-managed cryptocurrency companies that will be able to withstand drastic market fluctuations. Understanding the following factors can help you to mitigate long-term damage as the market naturally begins to self-correct. In November 2000, an index of 280 internet stocks was down by $1.7

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

In today’s fast-paced digital world, technologies and trends often become obsolete before we’ve even had a chance to understand them. No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. Let that govern your business practices. Evolve to stay relevant.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

capital markets are essential and intimately linked to new funding commitments to basic scientific research. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. Now, the mistake: “Venture capitalists are sitting on plenty of cash and are good at bringing startups to the market. In the 1990s the U.S.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. “Our aggressive business expansion in 2010 was based on the tremendous market opportunity we see for identity governance,&# said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

VC investment per capita is lower than the US (it’s now 33% lower) and enterprise spend on technology here is much higher as a ratio to VC investment than it is elsewhere in the world. Efficient market theory has it that money should flow into that void. However, whilst money didn’t flood into the void, it did trickle.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

government dataset compiled by the U.S. … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S.—Microsft, capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. Census Bureau. ” (ix) The U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Jiri Stejskal, this translation and interpretation company offers services to government and corporate clients in almost 100 languages. Bought by Mike Pfieger in 2000, this company provides agricultural goods and services. Offers specialty eye care using world class state of the art technology.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Are they consistent with your founding team, are they competitive in the market, and will they not create precedents that you’ll regret in the next round of hiring? Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. How about your Marketing Plan ? One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

There are times when small and slow is the right strategy for a specific market opportunity. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society. Blitzscaling is a response to market dynamics, not the cause.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. The booming IPO market proved the model of investing in new companies, as some SBICs cash out at attractive levels. The US government, however, lost most of the $2 billion it put into SBIC firms.”

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Overall crypto markets improved, with Bitcoin hovering near $7000. Interestingly, Satis, a blockchain advisory firm, published a report this past week (link below) that predicts offshore markets for cryptocurrency will be main drivers of crypto market growth, citing a loss of confidence in government monetary policy around the world.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they What’s bringing them here? Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California?

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

« | Main | Craft and CSS » { Tuesday, January 12, 2010 } How "hard" should your startups technology be? Some easier, faster, less expensive and I think, more satisfying ways for startups to innovate using these technologies are: 1. Too hard, and its a job that requires government research or academia.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? Work for a “Recession-Proof&# Company Granted, no company is completely recession-proof, but sectors like health care, pharmaceuticals, defense, government, and consumer staples do well in good or bad times. The average U.S. Boring programming jobs?

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000. Let’s start by advocating policies that will bring risk-taking entrepreneurs and technology innovators back to the table before the American cupboard is bare.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This drop in public valuations basically means that private companies lost half of their value in a comparable way and therefore the cost of capital doubled in the past month, pushing much higher the hurdle for any additional investment, be it in sales, marketing or R&D. Is Government a good idea? sales and marketing. (10).

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000. We had recorded $1.8

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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France Europe Capital Gains Dilution 71

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 years in 2007- the longest gestation period since 1991: What has driven these changes to the capital markets and are they permanent or temporary? This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). cents or 6.25

Equity 31

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. The Chilean government recently announced a bold initiative that stands apart from the usual innovation and start-up handwaving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Big data’ can mean big profits.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. Here’s why: Except for early adopters of technology and diehard environmental customers, most people aren’t buying a fuel type, they’re buying transportation.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

But it is not enough to simply have technology tools and risk capital in hand to build a sustainable innovation ecosystem. Once you create and dominate a niche market, then you should gradually expand into related and slightly broader markets.”. Why is this the case?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Big data can mean big profits.

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