Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. Acquia, Inc. They kind of invented this business model.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

This has been going on for at least a quarter or two, but the velocity of it seems to have picked up with a wave of high priced financings along with large financings for nascent companies. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leaders and companies that innovate new products, services and methods of delivery are the ones that stand out in a crowded business world, especially when attempting to gain recognition among the throngs of competitors visible on the web. Innovation is valued by our society, by investors and certainly by consumers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Venture Financings we Discussed. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. 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. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral.

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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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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

They made great introductions, they helped you get financed, the put in more money themselves, they helped you strategically and they helped you with your exit. Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. For some reason most entrepreneurs do. Except GRP.

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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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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I wont bother going into details on start-up financing terms ( see this post for an overview of typical VC terms) except to say if you dont know and understand: the firms cap table and valuation. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Not all start-up stock is created equally. what kind of stock you are getting.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. Chinese Internet companies live in a large closed, self-contained ecosystem with 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access. Car sales in China went from 1 million in 2001 to 14 million in 2011.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

To find our domain, and therefore name, I created an excel sheet that had one column of ‘primary’ words like fund, finance, deal etc. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. Thanks to Cory Vyse, Selaris Web Media Inc. ! #21- The name and domain were born then.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Yes, most are web-based. However, Cadre is awfully vague for a startup in the finance / commerce space. ” 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). And… Unique?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. million for the year, which is the first time it has been below $5 million since 2001, a sign that capital efficiency will be even more important than it has. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. Popular categories include web developers, mobile developers, designers, writers, and accountants. annual GMV.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Web Designer (Req. Finance Jobs |. WSJ Web Slice.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. Public market comparables. Much better.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Call it your functional pie chart.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. I founded GMR Web Team 11 years ago for one simple reason: to help small and medium sized companies take advantage of the growing opportunities of the Internet. ” Thanks to Ajay Prasad, GMR Web Team ! #16) 16) Bring Change.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

The CMO-CIO divide is exacerbated by the rise of web commerce and social media. After all, the share of marketing that goes through digital channels — through the web and social media, on smartphones and tablets — is growing like crazy. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup world. In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Clicky is real time web analytics running on over 350,000 web sites.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

In Effects of Web Atmospheric Cues on Users’ Emotional Responses in E-Commerce , researchers Hong Sheng and Tanvi Joginapelly found that websites with a stronger emotional impact produced a greater intent to buy. . See, Mailchimp had already been around since 2001 and it took them from 7 years to reach their first 10,000 customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. How did MSFT lose the API war?

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