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. Stanford University rolled out a free online Machine Learning course.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). Ps check mypicasso.com.

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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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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. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital. I have the purchase history to prove it. CEO , Gust.

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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. As founding CEO, I remember being quite excited to meet our financial backers and talk about how we could partner to build a great company. That question tortured me for months.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

They can point you to funding sources and assist with finding capable business partners for payment processing, for example; 3. 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. Emotional Control.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Union Square Ventures The next morning I got to spend time with Brad Burnham , partner at Union Square Ventures talking about their investment strategy and insights about web-based businesses. Bill and his partner Fred Wilson have invested in ~30 or so companies with 27 still active. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Amber on Twitter @amberallen_aa #Gaming #Esports #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality #AmbersReality Andy Tryba recently launched a new company with Donald Park from Vista Equity, called Ionic Partners, after almost a decade running companies for Joe Liemandt.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Your passion will drive you and others around you, but be sure to partner with people that are as enthusiastic as you are. Know what your strengths are and partner with others to cover your weaknesses; Preparation. Yes, you must be passionate about your “idea” and making it become a market reality.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

So what can you do when your team is comprised of people who are like butterflies of many colors and don’t partner well? Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. I wasn’t sure what to expect as we stepped back into the conference center.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2018

Besides, I have a set way to conduct interviews and record the responses of potential alliance partners. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. I deemed the stakes were too high in our company. Don’t settle for an illusion!

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group. Before joining Bridgewater, Ms.

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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. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Ameet was right.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. The industry built slowly until a few years into the new century. that year, accounting for 67.9%

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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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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Moving forward, Miller believes Cornerstone can grow to become an “extremely global company.”

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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. Brian Kasser most recently led the global Software and SaaS Practice for Russell Reynolds Associates, based in Palo Alto. Meredith started out at Google HQ on the Global Communications & Public Affairs team.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Over the years of having digital agencies (I started my first digital agency in college with Raj in 1999!), Delta Air Lines was our founding partner , giving us some much needed encouragement and financial support to help us put on the first event. I would always introduce opportunities for our team to give back.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. Don’t be penny wise, pound foolish.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. 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.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Talk about a business with humble roots. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Over the years the company has attracted around $167M in venture funding from such organizations as Highland Capital Partners and Accel Partners.

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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. I met with a major institutional limited partner the other day--the kind of money that funds VC's.

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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 enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Of all the Chinese innovation programs, Torch is the one that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.

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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). I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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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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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. Koller said of her company’s partner institutions. The article explores some major players and their actions.

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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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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Of all the Chinese innovation programs, Torch is the one that was run like a startup – iterating and pivoting as it learned and discovered.

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Technical Review Programming SBIR China 170

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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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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