Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups? Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.] Many funds have not performed and will start to disappear.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Ironically, when I asked her what her favorite startup was, she said somewhat semi-seriously, "Raising my 21-year old son."

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2019

percent in 1998 to 7.7 Some industry insiders expect that there will be 10,000 SaaS startups from India in the coming decade, which means thousands upon thousands of new roles. Time was short and the work laborious, meaning that the majority of jobs went to India to save on costs. percent in 2017.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dallas Startup Happy Hour is tomorrow @ 5pm! Big in Japan and Architel announced the speakers for the inaugural Startup Happy Hour 2.0, 27, at Campbell Centre, will include Blake Burris of CoHabitat ; Gabriella Draney of Tech Wildcatters ; Danica Mathes of Ignite Dallas ; and Joey Pomerenke of Startup Weekend. 24 and Dec.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Meanwhile, new businesses and startups should keep GDPR regulations at the forefront of all business growth conversations to avoid having to backtrack and meet requirements retroactively.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table. 2] Peter V.

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Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). The bottom line here is that the planning process, for both startups and for growing companies, is about the people more than the plan. They can change fast.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

That’s why the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement was signed by 56 states in 1998 on every victim’s behalf. The post 3 Personal Injury Lawsuits With the Biggest Settlements appeared first on The Startup Magazine. They wanted to recover the medical costs associated with caring for their health issues.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table. 2] Peter V.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market Exists which is full of great tips for what they call ‘pre-chasm’ enterprise startups. Nine times out of ten (or more) direct sales is the only way for early stage startups. This practice is particularly common in fintech.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

“The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. There are two primary reasons that startups fail: One, the execution of the idea is poor (wrong location, poor product, bad service, etc) and two, the startup is not making something that people want. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The poster-child of Israeli startups which was sold to AOL in 1998 for $287 million (ancient link!) Remember ICQ? and later on to DST for $187 million in 2010, Yuri Milner's holding corp, is now. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. The irony is that in a retrospective paper ten years later (1998), [ 2 ] the authors backed off from their claims. Therefore, startups whose mantra is “ we have to be first to market ” usually lose.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008. Startup general interest' Just less than before.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2014

It’s well understood now that at many of the best startups the founder remains at the helm until the company is very large – Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are four great examples. Startup general interest' The first is that you’re doing something wrong all the time.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 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? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler. Get Lucky.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. Take a look – and take your time.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

Run of the mill startups accept seasonal drag without a plan while the ones that eventually grow significantly larger do not accept profit swings or revenue losses as part of their company’s reality. Ted Karkus began his career on Wall Street and is currently CEO of ProPhase Labs. billion 7 years later.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. Towards the end of my OPT (mid 1998) is when the H1-B visa cap issue hit. In a startup cash is king.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 Over the previous years you could spend 12–24 month at a startup and become an IPO millionaire. I was broke and needed money (had been working part-time at an enterprise tech startup along the way but otherwise savings were depleted).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In the United States, front airbags have come as standard on all new vehicles since the late 1990s (1998 for cars and 1999 for light trucks). The post Six Vehicle Features That Keep Your Employees Safe appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Here are six notable examples. Many vehicles had airbags even before these dates.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community. Bobby is returning to CU Boulder to strengthen the partnership between the incredible tech business and startup community we have in the Boulder area and in Colorado, and the tech-programs at CU Boulder. Welcome back, Bobby!

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 17, 2010

I didn’t have any visibility into what a career in startups would look like, how to get started, etc—just wasn’t even looking for them. I started a business newspaper at my college and my first article back in February 1998 was on AOL. They have friends going to work for tech companies and startups. So how can you change this?

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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. The post Small business startup kit for 2007 – mostly free!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. All the usual caveats apply.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 5, 2023

Perhaps the most well-known example in our industry is the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which provided safe harbor to Internet businesses around copyright infringement performed by their end users so long as several preconditions were met (such as direct financial benefit, knowledge of infringing materials, and so on).

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I bought the Diamond Rio mp3 player in 1998. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .

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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 Each year, Growthink reviews hundreds of startup and emerging company opportunities and selects those with the best management teams, market opportunities, and financial prospects. billion in Yahoo stock.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

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). And, for the last category (the shares I own personally), I still use the long-term formulaic approach I came up with in 1998.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

However, what Silicon Valley thinks about your startup has never been less important. When I got out to Stanford in 1998 it was still the dawn of the consumer commercial internet. It’s why I believe early stage startups aren’t “over-funded” but under-funded by at least an order of magnitude.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

For startups, it is the best of times and it is the worst of times. But because there are so many new companies, it’s harder than ever for startups to survive. To stay in the game, startups need three things: Money. Naval Ravikant is the founder of AngelList , which connects new startups with funding and talent.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 8, 2015

The fact that the trend has been going for some time – Google was founded in 1998 and Tesla and Facebook in 2003 and 2004 respectively – suggests that the bubble explanation can’t be the whole story. Startup general interest' We are in a bubble – at least for late stage companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. As a mentor of mine always says, "Startups dont starve, they drown."

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2016

Moreover, we are still at a high level of investment when compared with any period except the last couple of years and the 1998-2000 bubble. That would be good news for startup ecosystems all around the world. It will be very interesting to see where this goes next quarter. 4bn, but that I expected the US to keep falling.

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