thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. Fiscal Policy vs. Monetary Policy – Fiscal Policy is manipulating the economy through government taxing and spending. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

Amidst all the recent talk of boom vs. bubble , there is a hue and cry that the current environment may smack of 1999. Tsunamis, Middle East crises, government shutdown threats and a looming budget deficit are all dampers on the market. The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In our hyper-competitive global economy, startups are just as likely to find their first customers in Paris, France, as in Paris, Texas. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 and was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system. Tom Cleveland writes for BetterMerchantAccounts.com.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B The industry built slowly until a few years into the new century. that year, accounting for 67.9%

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. And then there is the government. Global stock market performance has significantly out-paced the U.S. But I was shocked by the number of people who expressed incredulity regarding the note in my column last week that all major U.S.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Today the company still uses the logo that my college roommate created, employs thousands of people globally, and has a market cap well over half a billion dollars. As you would expect, the more authoritarian the government, the harsher their reaction.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

government waits, the more devastating the eventual assault is likely to be.” With 17% or less of the global semiconductor fabrication infrastructure physically in the U.S., government. soil can provide 100% assurance. ceded the center of gravity in the semiconductor fabrication industry to Asia many years ago.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. STOIKY is his callsign. Working with Joe, he founded RideAustin to provide ridesharing to Austin when Uber and Lyft were driven out by city council.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 and was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 30, 2012

We are now well-beyond 13 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading, on an inflation adjusted basis, much lower than they were in July 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors – continued payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. A certain General Partner might know a certain type of customer like telecom carriers, but not others like pharmaceutical companies or government agencies.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. The seven finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012 are: Ski Butlers (Western).

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Tom served as CFO for various Visa International entities from 1980 until his retirement in 1999 and was instrumental in expanding the global reach of the Visa system.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

The abundance of risk capital during America’s technology bubble in 1999 and 2000 effectively financed the launch of the technology innovation ecosystems that now thrive in China, India, Singapore and other emerging (and increasingly robust) economies. We must stop damaging America’s global competitiveness. Share and Enjoy:

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Of all the Chinese government programs, the Torch Program is the one program that kick-started Chinese high-tech innovation and startups. This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? I think we do need to see more de-coupling of data storage and the internet – but more importantly than that we need governments to speed up the legislation process and take ‘data crime’ more seriously.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? I think we do need to see more de-coupling of data storage and the internet – but more importantly than that we need governments to speed up the legislation process and take ‘data crime’ more seriously.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

What the visionary, Milton Friedman, predicted about Bitcoin in 1999. Even before Bitcoin became a reality, visionaries like Milton Friedman were predicting the rise of an internet-version of cash, as long ago as 1999. The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. The 2018 Global Coworking Survey shed some light on the numbers behind who uses coworking spaces.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. 2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was 1999. They were posting constantly updated photos of their coffee pots. You just started building.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans.

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Up and Running

JUNE 18, 2014

Founded in 1999 in Montreal, Canada, ice.com was recently acquired by Round 2 Inc., If you’re planning on mentoring for government contractors – If you plan on selling to the government, getting help and advice from The General Services Administration (GSA), won’t go amiss. an ecommerce company headed by CEO Brandon Proctor.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Global Support. Customer Service.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. But when the web 2.0 It was exactly 21,323 words.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Most of the informed people I know are telling me that the sharp sell-off has more to do with European national debt (PIGS as it is called: Portugal, Italy, Greece & Spain) than the current US dilemma of a S&P downgrade of the US government debt. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. Don’t want to call it either way.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

But there’s a ton of interesting bits on everything from growth rates to corporate governance, so I will still do a deep analysis though will serialize this into a couple posts. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes. These standards allowed global collaboration and expanded the boundaries of trade.

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