Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

The newest one is a power-operated accelerator pedal…” Period brochure for 1958 Imperial “Auto Pilot” (cruise control). The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Write it down on a napkin.

Detroit 156

Detroit Technical Review Cofounder North America 156

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

million and we seemed likely to raise another $40 million within the first 18 months of operations. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Even better if he/she can double as a VP Operations & HR. I was used to being allowed to fly business class and staying at nice hotels.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

No one would suggest eliminating smartphones from our day-to-day lives and business operations, so following some simple mobile security guidelines can make all the difference in protecting your private information. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. Don DeBolt is the Director of Threat Research for Total Defense, Inc.

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Security Mobile Software Review Technical Review 160

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 16, 2011

If done as pure education this can be a very powerful way to add value to your current client relationships and demonstrate the way you operate to these hot prospects. You invite other hot prospects to participate and then simply host and moderate the discussion among peers.

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Customer Video Social Media Software Review 66

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Since selling Matt has gone on to become one of the smartest angels I have seen operate. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Questions I ask Cameron Herold: [2:27] Are there some things in those early days of figuring operations out that really stuck with you? [3:38] Cameron Herold (02:35): Uh, something changed.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Just so we’re clear, I don’t receive anything for promoting this tool, I just think it’s the right one for this use.) Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Social Media 59

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. And out of those, 5 or 6 of them decided, by themselves, that they cannot operate as Digital Cowboys.

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Leadership Social Media Global Technical Review 206

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. The pandemic has opened doors for entrepreneurs and altered the way businesses operate – maybe for the better. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004.

Entrepreneur 129

Entrepreneur Technical Review Global UAE 129

Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Currently, the program is operating in several major airports like John F. Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.

United States 48

United States Los Angeles Technical Review Programming 48

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation. We lost the campaign badly , but we won a major battle on The Frontier of Global Politics in the age of the Internet. That experience set the bar for me in my career.

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Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 165

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. I decided to decline that job offer and start my new career as a real estate entrepreneur. I have never looked back or regretted my decision to make such a bold move and fulfill my dream of business ownership. No hassles. No regrets.

Entrepreneur 135

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 135

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. But couldn’t they just do the same thing on some high-performance computer?

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Nicole Bernard. So it's been just kind of figuring that out.

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Social Media Software Review Hiring Framework 77

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 2004-09. Many pursue an “active” retirement where they can not only keep up-to-date with current trends in their areas of interest, but also make use of their experience and networks to provide operational expertise, general management advice, and critical introductions.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system. As you know, Time Warner eventually spun off AOL for peanuts.

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Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. On the operational aspects, 96% of members say it is easy or very easy to join the Fan Club and 92% say the checkout process is fast or very fast. 67% say that they would come back less often without the Fan Club.

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Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 6, 2020

I have been a VC since August 2004. Dentists studio operator (do dentists have studios?). And I have always gotten a kick out of short company descriptions that I read in VC daily reports (like Term Sheet and Pro Rata). While I understand most of the descriptions, there are always some curve balls. Log analytics firm (like wood logs?).

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Wiki Term Sheet API Analytics 45

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. If you’ve been following along, I’m not always happy about how the industry operates and I plan to be even more forthright about my takes given the benefit of some distance going forward.

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Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

OnlyOnce

MARCH 10, 2021

I started writing this blog in May of 2004 with an objective of writing about the experience of being a first-time entrepreneur — a startup CEO — inspired by a blog post written by my friend, long-time Board member and mentor Fred Wilson entitled “ You’re only a first time CEO once.” Welcome to the new StartupCEO.com!

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Naming RSS Email Web 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I National Venture Capital Group endorsed it. Some Angel groups endorse it. More recently some Chamber of Commerce’s have started to endorse it.”.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In 2004 he had a bit in his stand up comedy routine which spoke of the Obesity Crisis: He said: They say were in the middle of an obesity epidemic. Like we’ll be telling our grand kids about it one day ‘The Great Obesity Epidemic of 2004′ How’d you get through it grandpa? . He really had an eye on society.

Operations 88

Operations Programming Technology Media 88

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. That business was sold in 2004 and provided JAMCO with its first profitable exit which resulted in the creation of a sizeable pool of capital to use going forward.

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Partner Uganda Angel Investor Bulgaria 147

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If a businesses are unable to access its vital data and continue operating in the wake of a natural disaster, it could face damages to client relationships, profits, and ultimately, its reputation. A thorough analysis will allow the business to define a plan and timeframe for resuming operations to minimize resulting downtime and costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. Most Indian entrepreneurs are extremely hardworking folks, who understand the domain they are operating in and a good number of them are also exposed to other markets – either by virtue of them working there for a while, or having an education abroad.

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India Silicon Valley Early Stage Asia 208

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

So when we moved in the beginning of 2004, I vowed to outsource as much as possible. If you choose to go the really simple route, the PC-only VOIP providers of today have come a long way since 2004. What a nightmare! What was even worse was that we had to have this guy come in at least once a month for general maintenance.

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Small Business Wiki Startup Email 60

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. They are operators, through and through. Investing in Non-Investment: The “FULL SERVICE” VC.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

Instead there are a lot of private jet operators around who rent out their aircraft or have people buy shares in such companies in return for use of the jets. This already sets them apart from competition and will help them further build on the current 70,000 plus flights made transporting over 165,000 passengers since 2004.

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