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. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Global Best Practices. And with U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files. It was right up my alley in terms of skill sets and interests.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

But if that observation led them to refrain from investing in the Internet sector, they would have missed one of the most stunning legal creations of wealth in history. The Internet bull market continued to run for four more years after the Open Market IPO, finally ending in the spring of 2000.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet. In 1995, thirty-five million people used the Internet. By 2024, ninety percent of the global population will have regular Internet access. Since 1999, the U.S. Meanwhile, in the U.S.,

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Even for low-tech startups, the scope of information available on the Internet, and its global reach, has had a similar financial impact on the many other challenges facing every startup founder. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. I didn’t really see how it would affect me. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Starting a tech company after this? Sudden change.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

As the threat of cyberattacks grows, training in safe internet use and responding to external threats is vital for all IT workers. The threat is growing, with cybersecurity attacks expected to cost global businesses $2.1 Don’t make the mistake of thinking cybercrimes only happen to large corporations. The statistics don’t lie.

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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. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

There are dozens of helpful websites on the Internet that will guide your early entrepreneurial steps in the process. 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. Time to get fired up and ready to go!

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So, in hindsight, the great Internet bubble of 2001 was very powerful and useful to me, even though it was very painful. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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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.&# That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Once I started my venture capital career in 1999 after being on Wall Street and an entrepreneur, no one was going to come in the way of my doing what I loved and knew I was good at. Ones that struggled to raise venture capital funding when most VC’s thought that the business models of the internet could not be displaced.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

There are many articles on the Internet and in periodicals that will counsel you on “ when to take the plunge ”, but your overall effort will be guided by adhering to the “5 P’s” delineated below: Passion. Creating a new startup is not an easy task by any means.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. 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 By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. From April 1999 until June 2006, Mr. Dahl served as the head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group, a leading private equity firm, where he was responsible for the firm’s investments in the healthcare field.

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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. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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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. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 23, 2012

Well, for starters they a) pursue global Markets b) place company culture above all else and c) They embrace the Black Swan within and without. They Pursue Global Markets. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. Your India strategy? •

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. Given the growth of the Internet, fueled by smartphones and high speed broadband, it’s no surprise that the tech world has been awash in capital in the past few years. Two significant boom and bust cycles of the modern era.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. I don't know that either, but here's something I do know. stock market."

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Akamai: The Present.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. - Coworking is a recent phenomenon which was aided by the proliferation of the internet and the associated capability for people to work remotely. How did coworking start? may come from your decision.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I was searching the internet for hours hoping to find the perfect gift to commemorate a special date in the life of my fiancé, Steve. Image Credit : Kent Lewis.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. .” It was 1999. Trust your allies too.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. The article explores some major players and their actions.

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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? Is encoding enough or do we have to de-couple data warehouses and the Internet? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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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? Is encoding enough or do we have to de-couple data warehouses and the Internet? We need to see evidence in market of governments and global representative bodies taking punitive measures against security breaches and hacking.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. 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.

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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., An incubator or a coworking space – this is especially helpful if you’re an internet startup business. an ecommerce company headed by CEO Brandon Proctor. Shameless advice: mine these connections.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Of course articles like these are going to inflame people because not everybody who is running their own business (or aspires to) wants to believe that you need to go all out to compete and win on a global scale. But … global tech does require an absolute, singular commitment level. We were based in London.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing. iv] Economist, Global Heroes: A Report on Entrepreneurship, March 14, 2009., ii] Aktihanoglu , Murat. May 3, 2009. A Kind of Magic.”

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. In the 1990s Internet boom, easy money helped founders maintain more control early in a companys evolution, but founder CEOs without voting control often got replaced by a professional manager ahead of an IPO. Contact Us.

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