Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Back in 1999 when I got my first job in the venture industry I remember having a debate with my boss about the relative importance of product and distribution for startups. Since then the internet has changed everything and for most industries product is now far more important than distribution. He was right.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

If you own a small business, you should know that internet marketing is essential to your company’s success. There are so many great marketing strategies out there, like SEO, Local SEO, PPC ads, and more. When customers enter that fence, you’re able to market to them and send them messages. Location-Based Marketing tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate. Just because you would have loved to have your groceries picked out and delivered, doesn’t mean the mainstream customer was ready for Webvan in 1999.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Globalization is the most significant challenge facing multinational firms today, especially in the emerging markets of Russia, Brazil, China, and Mexico. A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. Emerging Markets As The Pocket Full Of Potential.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. Companies are raising billions of dollars in the private markets and the valuations are enormous PRIOR to the IPO.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below).

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. For starters we take a very, very long term view of internet innovation (more on this below).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. And then they market the F out of that result.

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Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Why it mattered: An open and fair internet took a massive hit when Facebook bought Instagram. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO. I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. What happened: Facebook buys Instagram for $US 1 billion + Tinder launches. Welcome to the Zuckerberg Dynasty.

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Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. online experience.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 54

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While many of my friends bragged about their 5 condos in Florida I kept talking about how the real estate market was in a bubble – their gains an illusion. above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. “Yeah, but there is a shortage of supply.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business. online experience.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 48

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. While there are some nuances in their solutions, these are not usually enough to validate so many startups in any given market, and larger companies are looking to snap up talent which is otherwise hard to recruit.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). Congrats! .

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

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. If this continues, he claims, we’ll see a hit in the economy. Beyond that, there is also a cultural issue.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

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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Iceland Government Internet Bandwidth 140

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology entrepreneurship in early-stage companies and emerging technology markets. billion in 2010.

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Technical Review South Korea Mexico 87

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2021

The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Deiss. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Ryan Deiss. His company, DigitalMarketer, is the leading provider of digital marketing training and certifications.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0

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Stock IPO Database Internet 74

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 billion market capitalization. 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.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. .

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Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

Last night, at the Aspen Entrepreneurs event, I was asked to describe several failures and I rolled out my story about Interliant, which, for a period of time (1999 – 2000) appeared to be hugely successful before going bankrupt in 2002. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation? on January 4, 2018.

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Prospectus IPO Cofounder Internet 80

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. Page 1: Market Size. $3 Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet. I wasn’t feeling it.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. Fred Wilson also wrote a sophisticated analysis of why he believes the market must normalize to smaller amount of money going into VC firms.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

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.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

The company went public in September in the largest ever tech company IPO and the share price has risen 28% since then giving the company a market cap of $296bn. That compares with Amazon’s market cap of $141bn and Google’s of $375bn. The business was founded in 1999. Ecommerce'

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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. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

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Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Or will the convergence of content, internet, mobile applications, games and social media be the onrushing asteroids that will soon destroy the movie dinosaurs? How about Internet Video? revenues from internet video services spanning user-generated content to television shows and movies will exceed $7 billion this year.

Los Angeles 76

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review IP 76

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Unlike the endless stream of predictions that are about to come out, it’s an analysis of the spread between the public market and private company valuations. Rates have risen significantly in the last eighteen months, pulling capital out of the equity markets and into the fixed income markets.

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DC Equity Hosting Valuation 112

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. 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%. trillion, by 2020, equivalent to bringing a whole new market the size of Brazil online. These are fantastic new markets for U.S.

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