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The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or …

Feld Thoughts

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. ” I remember a moment in time in 1997. The post The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or … appeared first on Feld Thoughts. It’s great.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

An unprecedented number of startups, over 100 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., Take the time to review your business model using the concepts in this article. How long before I write an article about you and your stellar success?

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

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). ” Instead, you’d go to Google and start typing something like “George Carlin article.” How often do you do that?

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Boston Unicorns

Seeing Both Sides

Last week, I used Aileen Lee''s excellent TechCrunch article on Unicorns as a jumping off point to analyze the role of the MBA in creating these unusually valuable companies. This week, I want to take a local lens and analyze these special companies that have been created in Boston. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004),

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5 Most Successful Products Ever and What Small Businesses Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

In our recent article 7 Epic Product Fails and the Valuable Lessons They Can Teach Your Small Business we explored the important lessons your business can learn from products that spectacularly failed to make the cut. Lipitor (1997). When planning your next product, the less you leave to chance, the better.