Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. (Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Everything).

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

2002 – “the social network fad is over”. 2002 – “Information Technology is not a competitive advantage”. 2002 – “Consumer electronics is a low margin and highly competitive industry”. 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”. (Evernote, Dropbox). 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. 2003 – 2012 was the climb to Enlightenment. Ponder Gartner’s Hype Cycle for a moment. You can apply this to pretty much anything in tech. 2000 was the Peak of Inflated Expectations. Apply Gartner’s Hype Cycle to it.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Led By Entrepreneurs. Have A 20 Year Commitment.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. The company held holiday parties at the end of each year and lots of friendships were spawned from work collaborations.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 25, 2003

Its latest survey calls for an increase of 2% spending for 2003 versus a December 2002 survey which forecasted a decline of 1.1% for 2003 spending. That being said, the October 2003 survey forecasts spending growth of only 1.3% for 2004, down from an August 2003 spending survey forecast of 2.3% growth for 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

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BeyondVC

MARCH 25, 2004

However, we still do not understand how it can go public with the following numbers: 2002 revenue of $6mm, net loss of $19mm and 2003 revenue of $7mm and a net loss of $13mm. What bothers my partner, Ned Carlson, even more is that some of the investors are even selling in the $100mm raise.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By way of context: It took me 28 years (from summer fo 1975 til December of 2003) and at least four close encounters to see what seems to me so obvious after the fact. If your ideas are any good, youll have to ram them down peoples throats." � Howard Aiken. irregulator. | May 10, 2010 6:11 PM. Kenyatta Cheese. Lynne Johnson. Matt Haughey.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Founded by friends Marc Català and Pablo Juncadella in 2003, the company grew quickly and now has offices in five cities around the world. MCFaul+Day was founded in 2002 by John McFaul in Portsmouth, England. The company was joined by logo designer Sagi Haviv in 2003. courtesy of mucho. McFaul+Day. courtesy of mcfaul+day.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. The company now has more than 17 million users. Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities? How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 11, 2013

For instance, in 2002 when the Texas Rangers announced his 10-year $250 million contract Rodriguez chose hubris over humility and continued to trash other players , most notably his “friend” Derek Jeter.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/31/2003: 44.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Customer feedback pointed her in a different direction: This was 2002. She loved the idea … and in February 2003 (the Times published an article about Challah Connection). … She initially planned to grow the service nationwide, in a model similar to the cosmetic and food subscription services popular today.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5 3/31/2003: 44.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Alex Vukajlovic, is CEO of Zurich based asset management company Cape Capital which he set up in 2002, and Chairman of DealMarket which he founded in 2010. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

2002: Sarbanes-Oxley creates more friction for companies that want to go public, but likely much less of a factor than people think, by imposing accounting and compliance costs for small companies that easily exceed $2 million per year. cents or 6.25 In my view, this is a myopic analysis for one simple reason.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I started in my guest room in Q4, 2002 which was a brutal time in our economy following the dot com busts. I incorporated BrightWave in February 2003, so we just celebrated our 11 th birthday which is kind of hard to believe.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Seems like a shitty deal, doesn’t it? And this isn’t something new. This happens to big sites too. Remember Digg.com?

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BeyondVC

APRIL 26, 2004

million of revenue in 2003 with a net loss of $4.1 Mr. Robertson has advanced us funds under the line of credit since July 2002, including advances of $5,600,000 during 2004. It will tell us whether or not speculation will run rampant again. As you know, I do find Linux on the desktop intriguing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. Then I got engaged to be married in late 2001 and had the motivation to get really serious. But the story doesn’t end there.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 2, 2017

CTB: I became aware of the global problem after giving birth in the US and experiencing a childbirth complication personally in 2003. I wrote a book called Living Yoga: Creating a life Practice (Hyperion 2002) and continue to thrive on all that the philosophy of yoga has to offer at every stage of my life.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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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 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

took off in 2003, Kathi had a good 25-year career of managing customer-focused work environments for a number of South Californian car dealerships. This was a chance that she took in 2002, when she merged her realtors with two successful real estate companies in order to establish this company. Kathi Kruse.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. I started my home-buying business in 2003 with a personal net worth of negative $80,000. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc ! Image Credit: Brad Chandler.

Naming 48

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Pascal's View

APRIL 7, 2013

I’ve been here about 14 times since my first business trip to Israel in 2002. I remember vividly my first visit to East Jerusalem in 2003, when I was introduced by Rabbi David Saperstein to Anat Hoffman of the Israel Religious Action Center and founder of Women of the Wall. Almost nine years later, I am back….

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Iran California Security 43

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ).

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Another big innovator in helping manage cloud implementations is Okta , founded by Todd McKinnon, the former VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com (who knows a thing or two about cloud services) and Freddy Kerrest who was senior in biz dev & sales at Salesforce and was there from 2002-07.

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