YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

Worldwide presence:- Right from its inception in the year 2001, Admiral Markets have successfully made a name for itself in the world market. One such platforms is MetaTrader 4 that offers the traders a chance to gain complete access over different trading operations, that too, quite instantly.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Finance, strategy, marketing, human resources, technology, and operations are all fundamental aspects of any business. Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, didn’t turn a profit until 2001, seven years after it was founded. So, it’s unlikely that any one person has the encyclopedic knowledge needed to run one on their own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. An internal business expansion is often incompatible with established operations, thus mergers and acquisitions are the most common scaling strategies.

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Dilution Entrepreneur Merger Acquisition 428

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. Brands started working towards creating their online portals to push for sales online while continuing their brick and mortar operations. The Rise of Ecommerce. million annual customers.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. The result?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We operate at scale and speed unprecedented in human history.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. The world had just gone into crisis and I was in a period of reflection reminiscent of September 2001. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic. We’re all experiencing the rise of a growing number of cloud applications coming through sales, marketing, HR, operations or finance to complement centrally designed, legacy IT apps, such as ERP, data warehousing or CRM.

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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. . The order of operations may surprise you. I’d argue that you’d make more money by reading the former—these are proven tactics that have influenced day-to-day operations, and most of us lag behind in one area or another.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2022

Having lived through this as an entrepreneur in 1987, an entrepreneur and VC in 2001, a VC in 2008, and a VC today, I embrace that this is just part of the entrepreneurial and economic cycle. Martina Lauchengco and Heather Hiles are long-time operators turned VCs who have also been through many cycles.

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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. . The order of operations may surprise you. I’d argue that you’d make more money by reading the former—these are proven tactics that have influenced day-to-day operations, and most of us lag behind in one area or another.

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Customer Differentiation West Virginia Campaign 101

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

Euripides (Greek tragic dramatist , 484 BC – 406 BC) said “The wisest men follow their own direction” and whilst you *should* follow the masses when comes to operating within the law, when it comes to everything else you should be doing it your way. See [link] for more, and to subscribe to future blogs and insight for free.

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Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Cofounder SMS 221

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

To operate as a pure Scrum marketing team, marketers would need to timebox their to-do list and commit to getting a specific cluster of tasks out the door after 2–4 weeks of active work. To top it off, marketers even have their own Agile marketing manifesto , separate from the Agile manifesto created by software developers in 2001.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

A contract nurse claims it’s reduced roughly 20 steps from her daily workflow, and one accountant eliminated 17 filing cabinets from his office—drastically reducing operating expenses and potentiating room to save on commercial rent costs. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2014

Over time, employees who fit this profile will cause your market share to drop, especially if you operate in the fast-moving consumer goods space. In 2001, drawing on their respective years of experience in senior global leadership at Motorola, Julie Miller and Brian Bedford joined forces to establish MillerBedford Executive Solutions.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. To make it through these downturns, entrepreneurs can make sure they have capital efficient business models and lean operations to get to, or close to, profitability between stages. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. Instead, I, like many of my colleagues (investors, board members, founders, and CEOs), operated in a state of blissful denial until everything blew up. They are both worth reading right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. Building billion-dollar businesses requires 7-10 years which means operating through at least one full economic cycle, if not two.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. VC’s fund their salaries and operations through management fees, which typically equal 2% per year. But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Private Equity 263

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to company strategy that involves all stakeholders, including IT, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and HR. Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more. That's right.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. Amazon trades better than both with a price of 24 times last year’s cashflow. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

For more details about what this calculator can do and how to operate this, you can visit the link below. This company was found in year 2001 under the trademark of Admiral Markets. This company is user friendly any one can easily operate over this with not much knowledge required. How to use this calculator? User friendly.

Marketing 138

Marketing Global Stock Operations 138

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2015

These are management, sales and marketing, customer service, production/manufacturing, operations and safety. Employee safety is a significant part of daily business operations. In daily business operations, use of office and industrial equipment can present a potential safety hazard.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

The second step involves obtaining a license to operate. Bet365 is a UK based online casino started in 2001 offering a wide variety of games that include bingo, poker, skill games and others. Incorporate table games, poker, slots machine among others. This next level will also require that you work with government regulators.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2020

A successful venture capitalist, Chris and his team at JAMCO continue to consult with and maintain equity positions with a range of firms operating in his areas of expertise. Chris Kape: I established JAMCO in early 2001 in the wake of the dot-com bubble collapse. Get in with a person in a group, and they’ll introduce you to others.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

In these conversations, the question of how I shifted from “operator” to “investor” inevitably comes up. 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.

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LP Angel Investor Cofounder Leadership 108

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. They are operators, through and through.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

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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Equity Salary Hiring Naming 94

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Its Vendini third acquisition since its founding in 2001. Vendini plans to keep the CrowdTorch ticketing platform and operate it as […] The post Vendini Acquires Austin-based CrowdTorch appeared first on SiliconHills. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS). Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. This is said to be part of a much bigger B round that is in process. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Founded in the year 2001 under the Admiral Markets trademark, the company expanded its range and reach to become the leading service providers in online currency trading. Admiral Markets is a globally recognized Forex trading platform for company meant to make currency trading all around the world more convenient and accessible.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There are currently over 120 industries that have franchised companies, with the franchisee normally receiving help with their site selection and development support, operating manuals, brand standards , quality control, training and business advisory support from the franchiser.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2010

One of my first Pascal programming exercises in high school (in 1981 – on an Apple II using USDC Pascal) was to write a series of operations on lists, including both linked and doubly-linked lists (I always thought it was funny they were called “doubly-linked” instead of “double-linked” lists.) That was 1984 for me by the way.

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