Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! .&# It is the new calling card. It is slowly becoming Florida Condos.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. The dawn of the internet age was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a technology entrepreneur. Sometimes lightning strikes twice.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. entrepreneurs targeting U.S. Sure, we had some outliers such as multinational clients like NEC, Samsung, and Porsche seeking insight into U.S. based opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I hope to offer experiences from being an entrepreneur and being a VC.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels&# or “micro VC&# ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. I believe that if you have 5 distinct skills you have a good chance at making great returns. There is a downside. I assure you.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). Photo Credit: Debra A.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

I know many entrepreneurs who feel that VCs have played them, gamed them, deceived them, or bullshitted them. But this doesn’t only happen to entrepreneurs. His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. But more importantly, it reminded me of how often VCs b t each other and entrepreneurs.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Naming a Business. Internet and Online Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Email address: Home.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). This isn’t the first ed-tech boom to crowd the market with companies whose names sound alike.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat.

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entrepreMusings

JUNE 6, 2011

Randi Shade is the only person on the Austin City Council who is an entrepreneur. She launched a venture-backed Internet start-up in 1999 about the same time I launched my first company. Austin has also been named one of the top most innovative cities in the country. She’s also a mom with two kids.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. 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). We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, you know, any of these visionaries and entrepreneurs here in America, if you ask 10 people for their opinion on Jeff Bezos, which I've done over the last three years of doing the research for my new book, you get 10 different opinions. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. Where am I today?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Advisory Board. Want to start up in France?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive. The username entered is already associated with.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. Many modern entrepreneurs have limited exposure to the notion of failure or layoffs because it has been so long since these things were common in the industry. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. Entrepreneurs/Founders/CEOs.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. There aren’t enough entrepreneurs here that want to start a company worth a billion dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. And I always encourage entrepreneurs to do reference checking. I know that a lot of VCs had roadkill in the Internet Video 1.0

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). According to Mary Meeker’s 2016 Internet Trends Report , 6 of the world’s top 10 most used apps are messaging apps. first name and last name, photo, twitter handle, etc.). It’s been around since the mid-1990s. They’re the six I just mentioned two paragraphs up.).

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% We have published some research on this topic elsewhere, which I will summarize briefly below. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. So I encouraged entrepreneurs to think about raising their funds as quickly as they could because. I have a young entrepreneur friend who IMs me a lot. Don’t spend like it’s 1999.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. Today, we’re a global leader in the carpooling category, but back then that was a pretty new thing in the consumer internet space.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

He also says they need to be “must own” names. Are Asana, Palantir, ZipRecruiter, and Squarespace “must own” names? Hambrecht and Quist (based in San Francisco) which was one of four investment banks that catered to the entrepreneurs and VC-backed companies through the late 1990’s. Once again, this is demonstrably wrong.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. One example I always love to showcase is Grasshopper’s “$!@#

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