YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2011

The digital native, a term first coined by Marc Prensky in his seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in 2001 (and later a book called – Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning “), is today known by many names. Since their teens, the Internet and mobile phones have been part of their lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

We box shadows--especially on the internet. I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution. How many times do we do that?

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Folksonomy.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. At that point I was a few years into my career and working as a project manager at Apple.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2014

Customers who didn’t receive what was promised will take their business elsewhere, or even worse, take to the Internet to spread the word about their bad experience. Professionalisms Brian Bedford employee management Julie Miller leadership work culture' The feel-good tagline spouter. Safeguard it as the valuable commodity it is!

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 44% 2001-2019 13.7% IPO market. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

In terms of TVPI, the total value to paid-in ratio used by fund managers to evaluate a fund’s performance, the median dropped 3.5% this year in comparison to the previous one, the third-highest decline seen in recent times behind the global financial crisis’ 7.8% drop and dot-com crash’s 15.7% It cites 3 reasons for that: 1.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2020

I was decimated in the collapse of the Internet bubble and had an extremely rough business experience from 2001 – 2006 (which I lovingly refer to as “The Grind”). I remember Black Monday in 1987 (I was running my first company – Feld Technologies – in Boston.)

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Mastering document management search and store features is one of the first steps in effectively leveraging a document management solution. We’ll begin by assessing some of the cloud-based document management functions of these solutions. The Speed of Information Drives Document Management Search and Store Success.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2018

Some companies do it because they’re afraid that making a change will disrupt the flow of business, others don’t want to retrain everyone and a few tell themselves that physical documents are more secure than an online document management system. The Security of a Cloud-Based Document Management System.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

How is it possible that when you lose a top-rated employee before you can say “unwanted attrition”, the manager carefully explains how her performance fell off? . “We When the facts don’t align with the good news, a clever manager will find the narrative to make everybody feel better—until the next meeting. “We

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people. As a result, the expectations of what the Internet would be radically outstripped the reality of what it was.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. People who manage processes make more sales.

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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.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. My whole world blew up in 2001. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. I had my office and a small team in Boulder. I did my deals. There was no joy anywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Over that time frame, Kris Thorkelson was watching the evolution of the Internet and e-commerce. Because it wasn’t just the Internet and e-commerce that were trending – prescription prices were soaring and people needed an option to manage the bite. Canada Drugs was the online pharmacy that he launched in 2001.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

To date, no one has managed to provide a conclusive answer to this issue. 2001 ; Tullis et al., Nor have they managed to make their work sufficiently known in the typographic community ( Spencer, 1968, p.6 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Commercial email began in 1978 and exploded with the widespread growth of the internet in the 1990s.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 1, 2017

These malware’s infiltrate user’s computer and gains access to sensitive information, and either locks down the whole computer, or encrypts the files, and threatens to release them to the internet if a high ransom is not paid. Jesse Wood is the CEO of document management software vendor, eFileCabinet.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2014

And, of course, with the Internet and social media, this dynamic has been greatly amplified. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Thinking Aloud leadership management Rich Karlgaard workplace culture' In this sense, customer loyalty is a great culture checkpoint.

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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.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing. The funds with more traditional origination are primarily focused on their local venture center network. Notes: Only for IT & related sectors.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Sushi and VC.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Transcript of Managing an Expanding Business, With Your Mission Guiding the Way written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Yeah, the roots of CrossFit were, it was an open source community that started on the internet, first and foremost. Back to Podcast. Transcript. So, by nature it was wild west. Matt Scanlon: Yeah.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2016

That being said, plenty of the businesses mentioned below require, at a minimum, regular access to a computer, the internet, and perhaps a car. Maybe you’ve worked as a hiring manager for years, and you know exactly what employers are looking for. Do you have a car (more specifically, a 4-door sedan, year 2001 or newer )?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

Chris Kape: I established JAMCO in early 2001 in the wake of the dot-com bubble collapse. Anyone involved in Internet related high-tech businesses at the time learned much from the loss of easy to raise capital with high valuations and quick IPO/RTO exits. The future is also exciting for JAMCO.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. So hey, for some people it doesn’t matter, but for me at least it helped sell me on the idea of project management, if not the basecamp product in particular. Ty Fujimura. 27 Apr 10.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2017

Although work is not synonymous with freedom, there are freedoms you can discover through the implementation of a Document Management System (DMS). However, all is not lost: by making the first step toward taking your office paperless through document management software, you can reclaim these 6 crucial freedoms at work today: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

Because the Internet has such a long memory and documents from the distant past can be found with ease, a search the “The Berkus Method” today will yield a number of conflicting valuations culled from the many subsequent publications of the method over the ensuing years. Quality Management Team (reducing execution risk) $1/2 million.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

After leaving Razorfish in 2001, Craig spent a year immersed in food, including a stint as a prep cook at Babbo, Mario Batali’s flagship restaurant. there’s a big difference between creating things, managing things, and operating things. We were better at creating things and not so good at managing or operating them. …

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking. This was during the internet explosion, so I’d say it was called the digital revolution 1.0. My role migrated over to that, and I was put on a task force to figure out how GE could begin to digitize itself and the industrial internet.

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