ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Rather than a traditional round of pre-release promotion, Beyoncé released a full album on iTunes in 2013 with no advance promotion. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Rather than a traditional round of pre-release promotion, Beyoncé released a full album on iTunes in 2013 with no advance promotion. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 9, 2014

Research from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) reveals that in 2013, US venture capitalistscommitted $29.4 billion to 3,995 deals, with investments in internet-specific companies reaching the highest total since 2001. The idea is simple. Venture capitalists fund projects that demonstrate a high probability of success.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. What have entrepreneurs been up to since then? Well, here is a comprehensive list of 10 of the most successful investors of the last 10 years. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick. He was 14 years old at the time. Olaf Carlson Wee.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

That blog post – which turned into one of my most read posts ever – grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 25, 2013

As 2013 comes to an end, I feel some relief that what has been a difficult and confusing year is almost behind me. The first half of this year was marked with the deepest depression I’ve had since 2001. I mark the year boundary with my birthday (12/1) so December is an “unwind” month for me.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Proof of this can be found in companies like Facebook who brought on Sheryl Sandberg from Google to run the company’s operations, Yelp, which attracted Geoff Donaker away from eBay, Netflix, which hired Leslie Kilgore away from P&G in its early days and even Google who named Eric Schmidt CEO in 2001.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology.

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Early Growth Financial Services

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The funding landscape: 2013’s fourth quarter saw $13B invested in 1,000 deals. This was the largest quarterly investment total since 2001’s first half. The trend continued in 2014: with activity during the six months through June the strongest since the comparable period of 2001. But the number of investments is 37% lower.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 14, 2013

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). In 2000-2001 we were already working on blending different types of results at Inktomi.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 1, 2014

1999 – 2001: Hard times ( credit card debt rising , no real plan for growth). 2001 – 2003: Focused times (starting to figure out how to build a business). 2011 – 2013: Focused times (promoted to President, re-energized, worked hard to grow the company). 2013 August: Relief times (sold the company).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. 2013 big data startups Bloomreach founders SEO'

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

It’s currently at $42 / share so if I got the splits right, after its collapse in 2001 to a low of around $5 / share it took it 15 years to claw its way back to $42 / share (a 10x from the low, 40% of its high at the peak.). 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. 2013 forward has been the plateau of Productivity.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on December 7, 2013. If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2019

The last federal legislation to address this issue was the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 , updated in the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 and subsequent amendments. There was also a case out of New York in 2013 – Cunningham v. New York State Department of Labor – that also addressed GPS tracking of vehicles.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies. In one case they referred to it as a growth fund.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

I straddled the operator / investor world until 2001 when the Internet bubble burst and my work world exploded into tiny pieces that collected into a huge mountain of s**t that I had to work through. Throughout all of that, I maintained that I was fundamentally motivated by learning. ” That brings my back to my father’s quote.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2016

In November 2013 I saw the headline Five cognitive distortions of people who get stuff done , and thought “wow – all the cognitive biases I know get in the way of rational thought and are unhelpful” My surprise at finding that irrational thought could be useful prompted this post at the time.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

But the USV Opportunity Fund was the first time, at least in the post 2001-Internet bubble cycle (or last decade, if you want to put it that way) where an early stage firm created a separate fund to invest in late stage rounds of their existing early-stage portfolio companies. In one case they referred to it as a growth fund.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

1998 saw the 300 th pub open and its rapid expansion saw them reach 500 pubs being open by 2001. The 700 th pub was launched in 2008, with the 800 th following in 2011 and 900 th in 2013. The business kept expanding and moving into new territory throughout the 90s, with further establishments opened in Manchester, Wales and Scotland.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then. This Book Will Teach You How to Write Better by Neville Medhora (2013). The mind, as a defense against the volume of today’s communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered. – Al Ries. “Be interesting!

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Dougherty and Lawton’s journey as medics started soon after September 11, 2001. Lawton (serving from 2002–2009) and Dougherty (serving from 2002–2013) were both stationed in Fort Hood, TX and met during a medical training course. Both of us lived right outside the Pentagon, so when the plane hit, it was really gripping.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

It was decimated because of lack of performance between 2001 and 2009, just like much of the rest of the VC industry around the US. “From 2008 to 2013, that was not a good time for exits,” Adams said. .” Peter is right about the context, but has two fundamental things wrong here.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

After retiring in 2001, I also joined a ladies networking group, On Purpose Networking for Women (OPN). Before starting GreenPal in 2013, I ran a lawn care business for 15 years. Image Credit: Bryan Clayton. I’m Bryan Clayton CEO of GreenPal which is best described as Uber for Lawn Care.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? The circa 2001 movie about the meteoric crash of govworks.com? April 2013. January 2013. Its axiomatic that a bunch of bright people can dream up any number of ideas for startups. Remember Startup.com ? Remember Startup.com ? Signup for email updates.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

million—than at any point since 2001. As the WSJ article sarcastically points out, the Class of 2014 won’t be the most indebted for long; the Class of 2015 is set to take that distinction over from them, just as they took it over from the Class of 2013. At the end of June, U.S. employers listed more available jobs—4.7

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 It is my one resolution for 2013: less annoying emails. Manny Singh says: February 4th, 2013 at 10:13 am ★ reply. saddington says: February 4th, 2013 at 11:02 am ★ reply. STARTING IT UP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

She also founded VerticalResponse (now a Deluxe company), provider of online marketing services to small business in 2001 and was the CEO until it was acquired in 2013. From basement to boardroom…back to basement, she is now a co-founder, investor and CMO of Dasheroo , business dashboards for every business in the world.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. In January 2013 I had a lightning bold moment. The name and domain were born then. Thanks to Alex Vale, Fundstack ! #8- 8- My name and what I did then. Photo Credit: Kate Mura. I was frantically one of them. It was my first time filing alone.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

.” These charts are similar, demonstrating that the homepage really hasn’t changed much since 2001. In 2001, 45% of the screen was useful (content, navigation, or logo/tagline). In 2013, 39% of the screen was useful. However, the changes that have come about have been largely negative.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Survival is the order of the day.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine. And this is not it."

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on June 12, 2013. I’m convinced that if I hadn’t made the decision to “Stand & Deliver” and focus, which is so important for a startup to do, Coremetrics would have failed in 2001 and almost no one reading this post would have ever heard of the company.

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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. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story. annual GMV. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. In 2013 HBSAANY launched a Fast Track program, which allows our members who are investing in a company to rapidly find other members who want to join the syndicate. I’ve shown below some specific data from a range of VCs. Acquirer/ Investor.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. On Dan’s Favorite Books. Eric Friedman: I love that.

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