Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I And they made an early investment in Yahoo.“ “….a

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

From 1996 to 2000 Don learned the art of Penetration Testing while consulting for both Ernst & Young and Deloitte and later took a position with one of the first Managed Security Services Providers, Counterpane Internet Security. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. formerly CA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Meet the “Everywhere Girl” Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. But did it stop there?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 2004-09. 1961- 1996. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603. Wiltbank & Boeker: “Returns to Angel Investors in Groups” 3,097. approx 1999-07.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Photograph. Meet The Everywhere Girl. But did it stop there?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

In 1996, Jim left his career in the media industry—working with Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio and CLTV News—to become a full-time volunteer and teach individuals with disabilities how to scuba dive. Jim: My media background helped tremendously in getting press, which we did not pursue until 2004. Getting visibility?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

Among a sample of companies started in 2004, two-thirds of founders were in the 35-54 age bracket. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Their offer was rebuffed and the company went public five years later.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Before her humorous book on grammar became an out-of-left-field bestseller, Truss freelanced for several British dailies and magazines, winning Columnist of the Year in 1996 for her contributions to Woman’s Journal , and reviewing books for The Listener and the Sunday Times. troops in Iraq in 2004. Lynne Truss. Mitch Albom.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. companies went public.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2004: 31.6. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0.

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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? Probably not, since that''s not exactly what happened the first time around.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2004: 31.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2004: 31.6 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/31/1997: 23.3

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space.

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ConversionXL

JULY 20, 2016

In 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when PC competitors Dell & Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. Remember the Everywhere Girl? Only 39 were manufactured in total.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Back then there were “email forwards.”

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