Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The organization was incorporated in 1999 when a number of visionary companies realized the tremendous opportunity for compatible wireless networking connectivity around the world.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. We ultimately had a good outcome with our Series A but I assure you it required some hard work and we faced plenty of skepticism. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2019

I wrote the very long story in a post titled Return Path Acquires Netcreations in 2004. I count my involved in Return Path for 20 years since my investment in Veripost (which became my investment in Return Path) was done in 1999. This post has a ton of Return Path history in it in case you want to go back in time 20 years.

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Idaho New York Venture Capital Partner 91

Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

It has happened only one other time in my investing career – in 1999. In 2003 the angels started to reappear (some of the best angel deals of all time were done between 2004 and 2007) and the super angel language started to be used around 2007. I view this is a significant negative indicator.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation.

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Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. One in 2004 and one in 2006. I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Back in 2006 and early 2007 Austin had seen a positive upswing in investment, consumer spending, and a generally healthy economy since about 2004. Just enough time to get sales up, profits up, growth rates back in [.].

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. However, entrepreneurs just put their heads down and continued to accelerate the current web revolution which started around 2004 with “ Web 2.0 &# being articulated by Tim O’Reilly.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Finance Internet Web 143

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Affiliate Cofounder 48

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. That became one of the driving forces behind the creation of my blog, OnlyOnce (because “ you’re only a first time CEO once ”) back in 2004. Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!).

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New York City Startup New York Community 83

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Comments (HTML is okay). Earlier: Know Your Shit: Ten Years of Twitter Ads. Next: Heres Whats Up. Why, Hello! Contact me at anil@dashes.com , phone +1 646 833 8659, follow anildash on Twitter or IM, or subscribe. Still curious? Matt Haughey.

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

million … yes that was seed in 1999!) 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 and were ready to take off the covers and tell the world. That story for another day.

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South Africa Europe Disintermediation Poland 310

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Wang, whose resume includes stints at companies like Microsoft and Cisco, co-founded one of China’s first e-commerce sites in 1999. After Amazon acquired that site, called Joyo, in 2004, Wang went on to build a new e-commerce site, DHGate.

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China North America Entrepreneur Asia 60

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7. 3/31/2004: 31.6. 3/31/1999: 49.7. 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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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. I remember the heady days of 1999 when everyone believed that there were new rules to investing.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 19, 2011

When you think about it, that’s something that could have been technologically done in 1999. They only had about seven years to get it right ( Facebook launched in 2004 ). Why with all the data out there should I have to manually assign people to Circles in order to send messages or interact with them?

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Atlanta Social Media Media Networking 53

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1999: 49.7 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. 3/31/1999: 49.7 3/31/2004: 31.6 One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Psychophysics in Cyberia , Work Less Institute of Technology, November 18, 2004. ” The Promise of Sleep by Dr. William Dement & Christopher Vaughn, DTP, 1999, ISBN 0-440-50901-7. Here is a collected list of documents I have either quoted from or consulted extensively. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Software Review 90

Software Review Technical Review Widget Los Angeles 90

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

In other words, before they had raised a nickel, they had made as much progress as a $10 million funded Series A start-up circa 1999 or even 2004.

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IPO Metrics Venture Capital Social Media 44

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 20, 2004

Getting back to the data on software IPOs, during 1998-1999, the companies that went public received around $30.0mm of VC funding, were 5 years old, were not EBITDA positive, and had an average IPO value around $375mm (includes comps like ISS, Micromuse, Art, Interwoven, Vignette, Informatica).

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IPO SEC Valuation Revenue 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. Groupon went public in November with two classes of stock. Google Inc.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

I have shared many of these thoughts in earlier posts like " The web-based platform " last October and " Web-based businesses circa 2004." " Web 1999/2000. As an add-on to this, I thought I would compare and contrast some differences, all quite obvious, with the first euphoric Internet wave. Critical Mass.

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