BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare! In the end, here is what we did: 1.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Always an entrepreneur at heart, Eric recognized small and medium sized businesses needed access to cost-effective, quality technology expertise and founded On Line Support in 1998. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Andrew Chen responded to that with a thoughtful post about how the ‘funding goalposts continue to move’ Here’s the money quote: It’s been widely noted that investing milestones have evolved quickly over time: In 1998, you’d raise $5M Series A with an idea and not much else. In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

By the year 2004, I had somewhere around 12 rentals. He moved to the US in 1998 with only a dream and $100 in his pocket. After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup. When Google went public in 2004 that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 The story is well-known but worth re-telling. million shares of Google stock.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 Invest in People.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/2004: 31.6. 3/31/1998: 30.8. 3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). When we feel guilty over damaging property, we offer to pay for it. donating to your campaign).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. A great example of this is the rise of Google and the demise of AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo, and a raft of others.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds. the 1990s. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/2004: 31.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/31/1998: 30.8 3/31/2004: 31.6 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Companies pre-1998 that went public received on average about $20mm of venture funding, were 6 years old, were EBITDA postive, and had a pre-IPO value of around $170mm (includes companies such as Peoplesoft, Intuit, Mercury, Documentum, Checkpoint, and Veritas). using pre-bubble data and this is what we found.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? Image Credit: Ray Higdon.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink. Version Control by Example. The Business of Software. Marketing for Geeks. Software Development. Summary : Eric offers guidelines for handling tough hiring decisions in a small ISV.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2016

Prior to his role at StockPKG, Sean successfully started Desert Plastics in 1998 and turned it into a multimillion dollar company before selling it in 2004. Sean founded the company in 2012 and provides the vision for keeping the company moving towards success.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was. Even ten years ago, most of us couldn’t imagine a self-driving car. Of the fifteen competitors, not a single one could complete the course.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2019

Founded in 2004, SiteGround is a highly rated hosting service provider, especially for WordPress users. With an adorably cute mascot and witty advertisement and marketing, the company has been keeping simple and straightforward since 1998. SiteGround. In fact, they are officially recommended by WordPress as a host!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. My parents did not wish to see me as struggling artists and thus I was enrolled in Bachelor of Business course in Australia.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In 2004 I began blogging. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. Yaro: If you go back to the Wayback machine, you’ll see it in its infancy in late 2004, but it really started off in 2005, so four years.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. One of the reasons it still made sense for a company like Facebook to hire locally in 2004 was that immature technology made effective remote work challenging. Ditto for Apple.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits.

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