Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
At Upfront Ventures, we defined our “shots on goal” strategy based on 25 years of experience (we were founded in 1996): We take board seats and consider ourselves company-builders > stock pickers. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million. It can be years before you start seeing returns.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2017
Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Thus far investment banks have been reluctant to participate in cryptocurrencies, but expect that to change because where the buy-side leads, the sell-side will follow. Headcount.
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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. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2014
A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” Buffett doesn’t care about the latest buzz.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2015
It used to frustrate me that I’d drive my car to the airport on the freeway, fly 30,000 feet in air in a tube and then hop into a dingy old car with somebody that looked like they hadn’t slept in 72 hours with a car that looked like it hadn’t been serviced since 1996. Phase one – Uber changed my business travel.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. percent to 23.4 percent last year.
ConversionXL
MAY 16, 2018
For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased. Not really right?
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