Growthink Blog
JANUARY 19, 2014
The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories. 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.
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. Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# But everything has intrinsic value.
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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. Venture Capital & Technology' 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). It never ends, because technology changes fast. Game-changing technologies become affordable (cloud computing, SSDs, insane amounts of memory). I started coding in the 80s. Basic, Pascal, Assembly, C.
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. Altounian has over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with roles at Dell, Motorola, Compaq and Ashton-Tate.
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. Formerly known as Fonelet Technologies. Founded in Sunnyvale, CA in 2001. CEO Henry Vogel (ex CRO of Quigo, and VP at Ebay). Total raised: $30mm.
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