Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Apple’s iPhone 6 buyers. The reason startups consider market efficiency essential to their success is because they are poised to play in a bigger field.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Montana Startup Seed Capital 100

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Earlier this week Mary Meeker published an update to her by now legendary internet trends presentation and Nielsen published their Social Media Report 2012. Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Taken together they tell us clearly that mobile and social are still growing very fast.

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Mobile Internet Social Media Portfolio 125

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. It’s a different world to how I first started out online.

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Video Product Internet Entrepreneur 110

Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0

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Stock IPO Database Internet 74

YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2018

3G: Opening Up the App Market. 3G emerged from the growth of the internet during the 1990s , which created a demand for mobile phones that could support both SMS texting and multimedia MMS transmission of image, sound and video files. The introduction of 3G in between 1998 and 2003 brought 200 Kbps speeds, four times faster than 3G.

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South Korea China SMS Germany 133

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Over time the idea that winners in new markets are the ones who have been the first (not just early) entrants into their categories became unchallenged conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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Silicon Valley Differentiation United States Customer Development 319

Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

So it looks like the market leaders are trading closer to recession multiples than bubble multiples. This has to do with adoption rates; this period seems about right for the oldest cohorts (less likely to adopt new technologies) to die off and for younger cohorts (quickest to use new technologies) to enter the market.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

Growthink Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Angel investors like Andy Bechtolsheim - who put $100,000 into Google in September 1998, a position now worth more than $1.7 Or someone like Mark Cuban, who rode the Internet wave perfectly, to the tune of selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock. Looking for Opportunities Now?

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Russia Software Review Angel Investor Stock 76

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

” The first week of 2016 in the public markets has been an entertaining reminder of this. In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). Or a weekly basis.

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Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Disclaimer: I’m not a stock market analyst and this is not commentary on the performance of Meta in the public market. Oculus Quest), the company owned the first first mass market VR headset and seem to be charging ahead with innovation. For example, in 1998, Prof. Already the owners of Meta Quest II (f.k.a

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France Spain Stock Cofounder 88

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the last decade the world of internet marketing, like the internet itself, has become dominated by multimedia. For a good eight years from 1998 to 2006 all my online business projects were text based, with some images thrown. It’s a different world to how I first started out online.

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Video Internet Entrepreneur Marketing 45

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

Not every business represents a “new-to-the-world&# idea, and not every company has the luxury of exclusive ownership of a market segment. Related posts: 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!). Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand.

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Marketing Differentiation Widget Search 115

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

That’s a big fundamental change seeing that since the start of the internet and sites like broadcast.com and YouTube, we, the users, have always had a public text chat. market this year after an initial trip out to the U.S. media market. What inspired your team to apply for SXSW Accelerator? We are planning to enter the U.S.

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Startup Germany Poland Argentina 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

However, one area where he fell short was in ignoring the search engine market. While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Originally only available in Virgin cinemas and on their planes, the market shares for the drink peaked at only 0.5%

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Technical Review Mexico Cofounder Angel Investor 60

YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2016

As time has drug on, the Internet and technology have brought about new payment solutions, which make it possible to send money anywhere easily and more affordably. Although PayPal was introduced in 1998, consumers have been buying and selling online since 1994. Online Shopping.

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United States Mobile Internet Technology 100

The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

As the founder of one of the earliest online marketing companies, creator of Squidoo , and author of multiple best-selling books , American entrepreneur Seth Godin needs little introduction. Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet.

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Video America Security Internet 145

Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Because he’s a staunch believer in working with those that solve a problem – not necessarily a big problem, but a problem that has a market – we’re going to assume most of those startups exhibited this characteristic. Harness the internet to validate your business idea.

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Startup Silicon Valley Cofounder Non-Compete 80

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. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing.

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San Francisco Product Open Source Distribution 105

Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 offers certain immunities for internet service providers that may lend some form of protection from allegations of copyright infringement, tortious conduct, or defamation.

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Social Media Media Viral Advertising 49

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. internet. (6). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Cracking The Code.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. The background for my story.

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Pre-Money Valuation Sales Liquidity Event Valuation 48

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Diego Basch

JANUARY 27, 2012

Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there’s no market for startup ideas suggests there’s no demand. He got it in 1998, back in the relatively early days of the internet. He figured out a way to upgrade the software on your home computer over the internet. Patent number 5771354.

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Silicon Valley Marketing Demand Reputation 38

ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Second, they defined these audiences by funnel stage, location, on-site behavior, and Internet service provider (ISP). Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. Ad creative was also split tested. Image Source). Key Takeaways.

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Campaign PPC Audience eCommerce 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. I suddenly lose my ability to judge if our marketing programs are being effective. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing. Berkeley Pizza: from pizza in the farmer's market to a sit-down restaurant. One example is in their marketing, which in today's environment requires providing value.

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Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. That’s OK.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. Some good examples: “Email marketing software for designers and their clients&# ( CampaignMonitor ), “A Better Way To Work.&# ( 37signals ) and “The World’s Largest Junk Removal Service&# ( 1-800-Got-Junk? California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. That’s OK.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Public market comparables. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. It’s the valuation:value ratio.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

I’m a tech co-founder in internet startups and after you’ve co-founded a few ventures you definitely have a much more of an appreciation for what’s required to make a startup work at the technical level – it’s certainly not just a software engineer. Friday, August 20, 2010 Stephanie says: I can testify to this!

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. If enough people sign up for it, the offer is good.

Cofounder 61

Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. And a month later the bubble burst.

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Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Sales Valuation 59