ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.
ConversionXL
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . For marketers, then, the goal is to distribute that secret, in full or part, for maximum impact: To create real value for Insiders. Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew.
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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. And only about 4% produce a return of greater than 10x. Pretty humbling.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. We will hopefully close on a $2-3 million financing round at some point in January and I can get back to the full time work of running my business. Folksonomy.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 11, 2019
The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side. As people work much more remotely and in distributed teams, there's this very unsolved problem around knowledge management.
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.
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