ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The company distributed a neurovascular medical device called Onyx. According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. For example, in December 2018, Minnesota-based medical device manufacturer ev3 agreed to plead guilty and pay $17.9

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Today HuffPo is one of the most well-read and well respected online media outlets but when she started it in 2005 she had lots critics who dismissed her unpaid bloggers and editorial content. It usually takes spirits brands 5 years to achieve that kind of distribution. Thanks to Umberto Luchini, Blood x Sweat x Tears Vodka !

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. round closed Feb 2005. Series B Preferred.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology (DLT) wherein all network participants can have separate copies of the entire record of transactions on the network. Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar. Morgan Stanley predicts that Robo Advisors will manage $6.5

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2019

is a fraud solutions and e-commerce provider founded in 2005; the company was acquired by Mastercard International in 2019. We began IDMD out of a 500 square foot location in Scarborough, Ontario where we distributed promotional items such as coffee mugs, key chains and bottle openers. Ethoca Solutions Inc.

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Andrew Payne

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Developed out of necessity by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to host the Linux kernel, it’s recently exploded in popularity. For all of its features, Git’s real power is enabling distributed, non-linear development. Occasionally, a tool comes along that quietly but powerfully changes the way things are done. Git is one of those tools.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The Theory of Kirzner (1973-2005) about entrepreneurship explains how the improvement of economic health affects individuals in the first world. Entrepreneurs Create and Distribute Wealth. Entrepreneurship is the primary factor in the growth of economies.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

MovieLabs is researching how to redefine the movie experience, advance content distribution, and understand media consumers. Back in 2005 … (movie studios) were very worried about piracy, and were also worried that the whole digital world was coming on like a freight train and they really didn’t understand it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

Higher strike prices distributes proceeds away from short term gain tax to equity holders who more typically are paying long term gains on the value that was shifted (I’m skipping a huge amount of nuance and detail here but the above is a general representation of how things work).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

dominated by a few very large incumbents who control much of the distribution or are you going into a market that is “fragmented” where nobody controls the industry. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Size of market matters but so, too, does “market structure.”

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Dear Oracle, Get a Clue » Linux News » Other » everbeta.com on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Eric Barroca on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Dear Oracle, Get a Clue » Linux News » Other » everbeta.com on Java: The Unipolar Moment, On distributed governance for distributed software Eric Barroca on VMware CEO: Django, Rails, Open Frameworks, Packaged Apps as Commodity and The New KingMakers.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

In most states, an LLC or Corporation must settle its debts before any distributions can be made to members. After debts have been paid, the remaining assets and cash reserves should be distributed to the owners/members in proportion to ownership interest. Again, no assets can be distributed until all debts have been settled.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

Todd is the CEO of Blubrry Podcasting – a podcast media company that represents 105,000 Audio and Video podcasters in which his company provides advertising opportunities, media distribution/hosting, podcast media statistics, and other services. And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. Pay less for storage.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

The number of people working remotely in the United States has risen by nearly 80 percent between 2005 and 2012. For a distributed team to be successful, you must streamline communications. To cut costs, Buffer closed its offices and moved to a distributed workforce. And the trend continues to grow.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 14, 2013

The way content is consumed and created has changed – mobile, itunes, youtube and the convergence of old media (TV, radio, newspapers, magazines) as vehicles to distribute new media, or simply replaced by new media, has everyone scrambling to become multi-disciplinary online media producers. The Infographic.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Mobile is another very important distribution place for the internet and Meebo is on the iPhone, Android, and BB. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high. For Meebo 1.3% What is your mobile strategy?

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The Austin-based company closed on its Series B round of funding and reports that so far the company, founded in 2005, has raised $33 million. The company plans to use the funds for development, marketing and distribution of Caringo Swarm, software used to […] The post Caringo Receives $8.8 million in additional funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

EB : Honestly, I wasn't even aware of Silicon Valley or this whole concept of startups and tech companies until 2005. My answer's really it isn't, that is, since 2005, a lot has changed. And my goal was that when vaccines were available, we will be using pop-ups as the kind of core vaccine distribution infrastructure.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Create a Video Distribution and Delivery Strategy. Building your business via video outreach is an awesome goal, but without a defined video distribution strategy, your efforts may all be for naught. From Vimeo to VidMe and DailyMotion, today’s video marketer have plenty of distribution options.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2019

Wanting to continue to be super active and independent long into our senior years my sisters and I put our heads together to design, manufacture and distribute adaptive aids for the aging, disabled and special needs community. I started my business consulting firm in 2005 when I decided to become a mom. Photo Credit: LaKesha Womack.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion, and in 2005 it bought another generics competitor, Ivax, based in Miami, for about $7.4 Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. Folksonomy. Consumer approach to software for business users. Free product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. At least in the consumer & business web.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

In 2005 Barefoot Cellars was acquired by E&J Gallo Winery, which continues to proudly carry on the off-beat message of “the wine that didn’t take itself too seriously. Your access to the distribution channel can provide your partner NPOs with the publicity they need to grow. And as you grow, they’ll grow… and vice versa!

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Getting there requires patience, internal buy-in, and supporting content. Instead, it is opinionated, often contrarian content that “has to pack a very real punch.”.

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aweissman.com

MARCH 7, 2021

was more related to the scarcity of its distribution than it was to any measure of value. By adding to the ideas of abundance and scale those of passionate distribution, patronage, the day-one fan and, yes, ownership. The less of something, the harder it was to get, the more it was worth for you to get it.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. So, for the last two years, Kik has set about turning Kik into a mobile browser with a messenger at the center for distribution. Everything is cross-platform, because it’s all Web, and there was a light bulb moment where we asked: Why can’t the Web work on mobile.”.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 7, 2016

The acquiring company can just plug that product into their existing distribution channel to help round out their current product suite and grab more market share (and some might argue that even this is happening less frequently). eBay was relatively successful when it acquired marketplaces like Rent.com (2005) and StubHub (2007).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 31, 2022

They said that they've got, you know, a hundred employees and they're distributed now and this just, they do a podcast that is purely an internal vehicle communication vehicle. Now you've been interviewing since 2005 on this show, but then at some point you introduce the, the solo episodes. I, I ran me the other day.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. you inspired me back in 2005 to look hard into blogging as a serious business venture.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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