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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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. Act I begins with IT Operations, where we’re supporting a large, complex revenue generating application. Enter the Developers.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

No more 60 hour weeks at a job where the owners apparently were unable to run a successful operation. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. The day after receiving my degree, I was in my car driving across North America to start a job at a promising technology startup. No hassles. No regrets.

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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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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). Tell me if this is “lame” Leader Technologies has won 11 infringement claims against Facebook.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Two years ago, airports in the United States started piloting face recognition technology at departure gates as part of the Exit Visa program. Currently, the program is operating in several major airports like John F. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry. What is an “alternative screening?” Why Should You Opt Out?

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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. But they may not be typically technology people, and certainly are not nerds. I hadn’t changed my leadership style, so what went wrong?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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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. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The best example I have of this is looking at what happened with YouTube; it came about at the right time, with the right team, and the right technology. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. The Right Technology. The Right Time.

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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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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. We experimented with tap and go technology, both on cards as well as embedded in mobile phones. Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms. They are operators, through and through.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

As technology advances, customers are becoming less tolerant of downtime. 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. by Patrick Wiley, CEO of Aldridge. How long will recovery take?

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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.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Tonya Sowles.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The two businesses that operate within our corporation are Best in Class Education and Middle School Dances, a business I started with my son to provide social activities for the kids in our local area when we noticed a gap in the market. My business name is Kids Win, Inc. because I want to help kids win at life. Photo Credit: Andi Graham.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

But I do think this IPO is very instructive from a technology business strategy and investment perspective, so I thought I’d lay it out in clear terms why I don’t think Uber has a bright future as a publicly traded stock. Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 23, 2012

With their acquisition of Nicira today, VMware is making a brilliant strategic move that gives them not only the leading network virtualization technology but also a world-class of team of executives and engineers. On a more personal note, I’ve known Nicira’s co-founder Martin Casado since 2004 when we were both studying at Stanford.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2013

What was plenty fast this time last year feels like molasses now to the very same customers because of changing expectations brought by mobile technology, social media–induced restlessness, the incredible efficiency of vendors like Amazon.com, and other factors. Which is a dangerous, dangerous situation for the companies in question.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 21, 2013

Austin-based Q1Media, founded in 2004, runs a display advertising network with millions of monthly visitors. The company will operate as Q1Excite with [.] Q1Media on Thursday announced that it has completed its merger with AdExcite, a video ad network company. The post Q1Media Merges with AdExcite appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. The second is a lack of operational scalability.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2017

by David Midgley, Head of Operations at Total Processing. With more and more businesses embracing the efficiency and accessibility of on-the-go technology and online transactions now being processed quicker than ever, it’s no surprise that these new technologies are also attracting potential security threats.

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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). Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. This is said to be part of a much bigger B round that is in process. SafetyWeb.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Olusanya practised medicine in Nigeria for eight years, but considered that technology offered the chance of a lifetime to become a power-player in the country. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology. Here come the drones. The company now has more than 17 million users.

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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. Jake Geleerd, President and Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Tomo, LLC.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. West Coast VC’s are on monthly flights to NYC from SFO, Facebook announced an engineering office in NYC, Twitter established operations here, eBay bought Hunch and will hire 200 people in NYC (their new east coast HQ)….the the list goes on and on.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. I wanted to quote all that because these were the clear, well-publicized expectations we established for investors in 2004.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Peter Lehrman, CEO, AxialMarket Daniel Confino, Founder, MergerID ( a Financial Times business) Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners. His professional career has been substantially dedicated to building high-value technology-powered B2B marketplaces where many thought they couldn’t exist.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Would you be surprised to know that almost half of the dot com companies founded when the boom started in 1996 were still around in 2004--four years after the peak of the NASDAQ? They might even find themselves operating more efficiently than they ever had been--newly focused on core metrics.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

All photos (and videos too) operate under the Creative Commons (CCO) license, in other words, they are completely free for personal or commercial use. Their huge array of categories consist of abstract, animals, architecture, business, black & white, food, landscapes, nature, people, sport, street, technology, transport, and work.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

They don’t believe they have the time, the people, the budgets, or the technology to make it easy and fortunately, that is no longer true. Social responsibility is a big part of the overall servant leadership approach that my team and I incorporated, soon after I purchased Datron World Communications in 2004.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

While both earnings and EBITDA multiples are widely used, we often see investors in public and private technology companies resort to revenue multiples (enterprise value / revenue). This growth could be a function of product differentiation, go-to-market operations, sheer market size, new geographies, and expansion into adjacent categories.

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