View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Looking at all vintages from 2005 to 2014, the top 5% TVPI is between 40% to 127% better than the top quartile TVPI. I’d bet the very best 1-2 funds probably perform meaningfully better than this threshold. What I find interesting is that the variation between the top 5% and the top quartile benchmarks is pretty wide.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

from 1997 to 2014. Oprah Winfrey ranked as the 12th most influential women entrepreneur of 2015 by Forbes with “The Life You Want” back in 2014 and her Harpo Films production co-produced the film “Selma” which won an Award. The number of women entrepreneurs increased up to 68% in U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar. In 2014 Granger, a Ph.D. Not surprisingly industry headcount also gapped down, and as the chart below reveals have subsequently become relatively stable too. Revisiting our components let’s see why. billion incorporating AI.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. WhatsApp became one of the most popular apps for social media by 2014. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. But back in 2005 there were a few people who spotted the trend before others and one of the true pioneers was (and continues to be) Jeff Clavier who founded SoftTech VC. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 22, 2014

He explained that we are now 50% of the way through the growing season for the 2014 vintage because the seeds in the grapes are now turning crunchy and hardening. Since we replanted the vineyard in 2000, this may be the earliest Levensohn harvest yet (our latest was just before Halloween in 2005). We don’t see this trend reversing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US. By 2014 my wife had set up private groups for our families so the kiddie photos mostly get shared there and it’s easy to mentally separate the private FB sharing in a groups from more public sharing. I was always more the latter.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Spend less money on fashion (down from 45% to 38% of teenage spend 2005-2015) and more on technology (up from 4% to 8% of spend) and food (up from 7% to 22% of spend). Teenage spend is down overall – one survey says down 31% from 1997-2014. Surveys also show that they care less about fashion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

And that's where we started in 2014. I actually started mine in, in 2005. Dan Franks (16:00): Yeah, no, that is, and you mentioned in, you know, 2005, it was hard to find listeners because you know, there weren't that many of them to begin with the limited shows, but limited listeners. And now it's the opposite problem.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In 2005, Warke founded the Augusta Group of Companies, a conglomerate of public and private business. In 2014, when we sold Augusta Resource Corp. Richard Warke has spent more than 25 years in the international resource sector. He has started, grown and sold a number of successful exploration and development companies.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

billion for 2014. In April 2014 Facebook acquired the maker of Moves app, which is also part of this trend, called by many the ‘Quantified Self’. And over half of those players spend more than an hour a day playing. In 2013, mobile gaming generated $13.2 billion in revenue worldwide. That figure is expected to rise to $17.1

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In 2005, I fired my lame art representatives and started making art full-time, and selling it myself. When Hello Kitty turned 40 years old in 2014, this cat was doing $7 billion a year, without advertising. So I established a specific goal to sell over $100K of my art in 2005. Create a strong first and last impression.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Storm Ventures’ 2005 vintage fund is on a tear, and should return perhaps 400 percent to its investors. In fact, it’s only in 2014 – a good nine years later – that the fund has returned more than 100 percent of the cash invested. But it’s not exactly resource rich – very late Series A or early Series B-esque, in fact. Waiting game.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

And that's where we started in 2014. Yeah, no, that is, and you mentioned in, you know, 2005 it was hard to find listeners because, you know, there weren't that many of them to begin with the limited shows, but limited listeners and now it's the opposite problem. So I got my show going, how do I get more listeners.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Andrea Kalli at www.virtualassist.net/ has been featured in PRNewsonline, Bulldog Reporter, Lioness Magazine and more and has been supporting businesses with marketing since 2005, and in 2014 dedicated her focus to putting video as the forefront of her services.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In 2014, she built her business from scratch to replace her full-time income in under five months and is now an award-winning entrepreneur and the producer of internationally renowned events like The Grow Retreat. She has studied the practical application of psychology for more than a decade in sales, marketing, and people management.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2014

The United Kingdom began using a similar structure in 2005, called a Community Interest Company. A low-profit limited liability company, or an L3C, is a legal structure (a variation on a limited liability company or LLC) that is relatively new to the United States. In 2008 in the U.S.,

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). Celebrating milestones - 2014 marked the 3rd year of Techbikers , my other labor of love and the best one yet. Several people sent their congratulations (thank you btw), and it reminded me it’s been a while since I blogged regularly.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We launched LendEDU as a marketplace for student loans in November 2014. In November 2005, one of my four sons was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. After that, I let our work speak for. Thanks to Leonard Jacobs, Clyde Fitch, LLC ! #4- 4- Picked from a list of 50. Photo Credit: Nate Matherson. That is why I called my company NoMore.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 12, 2014

’s three grandchildren, Macy Baby (December 2005) and Merry Leigh (May 2011), born to Kudzoo, and Gunther (July 2006), born to Sukari. - anniversary in 2014. . - Zoo Atlanta also remains home to offspring of its best-known gorilla, Willie B. (ca. 1959-2000). The zoo is also home to Willie B.’s

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2014

So, who would you love to hear me interview in 2014? The Five Most Engaging Podcasts of the Year I’ve been recording podcast interviews since some time in 2005. So, who would you love to hear me interview in 2014? Related posts: 7 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2013 Like a lot of content producers I’m using the end.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2015

A 2014 report by consulting firm Achieve revealed that not only do millennials think it’s important to give back to their communities, 57 percent would actually like to see their employers offer more company-wide volunteer opportunities. Philanthropy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Fast forward to 2005. Since it was inception in 2005, Cyber Monday has grown exponentially. What began as a small sale with a handful of retailers turned into over $2 Billion in sales in 2014. With the explosion of the Internet and e-Commerce in the 90’s, some companies focused on an e-Commerce only model (like eBay and Amazon.)

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ConversionXL

MARCH 2, 2016

In 2014, Mediative did an eye tracking study on 53 participants who did 43 common tasks. They compared the results with results they had gotten from a similar 2005 study: Image Source. Organic results that are positioned in the 2nd through 4th slots now receive a significantly higher share of clicks than in 2005.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” The term stuck, and in 2005, “podcast” was the New Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year.” In 2014, Sarah Koenig launched the show Serial , which became a pop culture phenomenon. In 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley referred to the booming medium as “podcasting.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” The term stuck, and in 2005, “podcast” was the New Oxford English Dictionary’s “word of the year.” In 2014, Sarah Koenig launched the show Serial , which became a pop culture phenomenon. In 2004, journalist Ben Hammersley referred to the booming medium as “podcasting.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Local & Mobile – By 2014, mobile Internet will take over desktop Internet according to Microsoft Tag Lab. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offer useful platforms for small businesses to be helpful and share information with networks far beyond their customer base.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2014

Even though he knew nothing about the business, he decided to fill that gap: “I launched my diet delivery website in November 2005 and on January 1, 2006, I delivered meals to the three clients who had signed up. Schlesinger (AMACOM; June 12, 2014; $22.00 Today, I am thankful I had the drive to become an entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Studio Press was a work horse for many years as we did development of Rainmaker, which was released in 2014 and then a couple years of rapidly trying to iterate that more ambitious marketing automation website email total solution type thing. Still to this day never bores me. I’m not jaded yet.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Deskmag , a popular online magazine about coworking, published this history of coworking which suggests that the first official spaces opened for business in 2005. Source: NetworkWorld) After a few similar spaces opened in 2005 and 2006, the public familiarity with coworking started to grow. If you put up walls, there’s no point.

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Altgate

JANUARY 2, 2009

2009 and 2010 will be great times to invest to reap the benefits in 2012-2014, for those who can judge both business risk and liquidity risk, and have the courage of their convictions. I think Peter is right.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

I expanded my practice into Your Wellness Connection in 2005, because I could see that people needed a place where they could easily meet with a variety of healthcare practitioners from a variety of different modalities. After selling my former tech company in late 2014, I was in need of a long-overdue break.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In 2014, I guided my own team to grow my own business, FIT Life Creation , 25x in year one. I’ve been using LivePlan since 2005—I believe it is the premier and easiest business planning tool out there. I’ve combined all I’ve learned into a smart approach to helping businesses start or grow. Start business planning.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Do the same old rules from 2005 still apply? — Luke Wroblewski (@lukew) February 6, 2014. It’s likely one of your most visited pages, acting as a proverbial launch pad. While you read about optimizing individual landing pages day in and day out, optimizing homepages is less frequently explored. pic.twitter.com/yyMLxcyEfn.

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