Growthink Blog
JANUARY 19, 2014
GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. What started as a small company has since grown into an easily recognizable brand which owns a significant portion of its own market.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.
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Diego Basch
AUGUST 14, 2013
There was one time when building a decent search engine was relatively simple: crawl a few million pages (in 1997, that would have included pretty much every interesting web page out there). In 2000-2001 we were already working on blending different types of results at Inktomi. It has performed a background check on you.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 2, 2014
I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. My dad brought home an IBM PS/2 in 1987. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy.
Diego Basch
MARCH 4, 2011
Fast forward to 1997. com running (check out the old snapshot, the domain hasn’t been mine since 2001). I started coding in the 80s. No web, no connectivity for the most part, just simple games, random programs, hardware drivers, random utilities. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C. I download my first mp3, a novelty back then.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This lasted from about 2001-2004. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. CEO Henry Vogel (ex CRO of Quigo, and VP at Ebay). Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. Total raised: $30mm.
Austin Startup
JUNE 27, 2017
Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.
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