Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. The difference?
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 2, 2015
When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. The name kind of says it all. Ponder this the next time you get on an airplane, even if it has WiFi.
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The Startup Magazine
MAY 1, 2017
The advent of the Internet means that geographical and social boundaries no longer inhibit business and we are now living in an era of interconnection. The globalist McDonalds managed to beef up its falling profits in 2015 by adopting a localisation strategy.
Seeing Both Sides
APRIL 10, 2011
But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. In 1997, a Charles River Ventures fund yielded a stunning 15x return, backing such superstars as Ciena, Vignette and Flycast.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
In fact, that was one of my New Year''s Resolutions for 2015. Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 Before diving in to the topic at hand, I realize Professor VC has been gone for a long time. or a market cap of $800M.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 7, 2020
I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. This was borne out of my personal frustrations in scouring the internet and needing to stitch together my own half-baked solutions. Thanks to Tim Shu, VETCBD ! #2- 2- From a hobby.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
A photo posted by CEO Blog Nation : I am CEO (@ceoblognation) on Aug 18, 2015 at 2:23pm PDT. #1) At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year.
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