Agile VC
MARCH 13, 2012
CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started.
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Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York.
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%.
David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
Michael’s view (full details in the video) is that right now there often aren’t multiple buyers for consumer Internet companies and prices often aren’t what people hope for going into the process. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Acquired by Amazon for $110m. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
Internet 1.0. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. How could anyone ever lie again if we could just check it out on the internet and find out the truth! But when the web 2.0
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