Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. The table below from web2asia.com shows the number of users of online social networks as of 2009. Did I mention this is a huge market.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s.

IPO 121

IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

million—than at any point since 2001. Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. The number of people paid by temp agencies has grown 46 percent since 2009 —and these aren’t all low-wage earners.

Las Vegas 113

Las Vegas Technical Review Security New York 113

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Uber is founded and AirBnB goes through YC in 2009. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 202

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 2001: Decimalization (further loss of economics to provide market support for small companies), by reducing minimum commissions from 12.5 Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. 80% of IPO’s <$50MM. cents or 6.25

Equity 31

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2009-2011: Retrenchment. Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. Uber is founded and AirBnB goes through YC in 2009. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. When Garret Camp and Travis Kalanick founded Uber in 2009, they hatched the industry now known as ride-sharing. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz has muscled its way into the top ranks of VC firms since its 2009 debut in part by being generous on both fronts. "We Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. For Most, Tax Rates Hit Lows in 2009. All Rights Reserved.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. So in 2009, as the economy came to a screeching halt, I took the leap. #17) In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. 29) Stay at Home.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

View from Seed

APRIL 20, 2022

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

Ukraine 156

Ukraine China Russia Global 156

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. We owe our grandparents a debt of gratitude for the institutions that still govern our daily life. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. Eric Ries : And governance is like that.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Design Hiring Government 113

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

We work with non-profits, for-profits, US Government, and international organizations, to identify the underlying goals, the users needs and abilities, and put together an appropriate technology solution to meet the requirements. #7 – Translation of Sundiata. Image Credit: Siobhan Green. Thanks to Rodger Roeser, The Eisen Agency ! #19

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers. This may seem like a small thing, but the focus bringing this friendly, welcoming experience to the forefront was the catalyst for Mailchimp’s most substantial growth spurt. million customers total) in 2012.

Sales 126

Sales B2B Campaign Video 126

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In March 2009, they launched a Beta version and demoed it at FinovateStartup 2009.” We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. January 2009.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107