thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers.

Investment Bankers 415

Investment Bankers Mobile Software Review Japan 415

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

In recent years, its technology, manufacture, and service industry became the source of the city’s wealth. In 1885, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) began mining operations of silver, zinc and lead in Broken Hill, NSW. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999.

Australia 204

Australia Chad .Net Green 204

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

A Brief History of Marketing Technology Software. How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. All manual operations. Customer Data Platforms will fill the current technology gap in three important ways: Data loss minimization. Tactic fatigue.

Customer 92

Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

The continual innovation of technology and product can provide infinite scalability for an Online Retailer. Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. They spend too much time doing operational stuff and not enough growing their business. It’s a great business leveler.

Global 87

Global Channel Sales Software Review 87

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

The newest one is a power-operated accelerator pedal…” Period brochure for 1958 Imperial “Auto Pilot” (cruise control). In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. Anti-lock brakes –> again debuting on Chrysler Imperials in 1971.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. But he didn’t grow up with technology. Turn Your Organization Inside Out.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda. The response from customers and technology partners validates we are onto something big.

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Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on. I don’t know this world on an intimate, personal level. And if I tried to find out?

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. 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.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, provides consulting, marketing communication, website and design services to a diverse number of clients including universities, private clubs, food service, manufacturing and technology companies. Liz received a B.F.A. Liz received a B.F.A. Show Quotes. Liz received a B.F.A. Liz received a B.F.A.

Web 112

Web Design Pennsylvania Philadelphia 112

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I look for firms in which some of the partners (my partner) have operational experience and know what it’s like to wake up every day and be an entrepreneur. Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018? What inspires your team to work harder?

Startup 48

Startup Germany Poland Argentina 48

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Chelsea on Twitter @ChelseaMcC #Policy #SmartCities #EisenhowerFellow Cindy Lo was one of the first people I met in Austin in 1999 when I came to work at Trilogy Software. He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. But couldn’t they just do the same thing on some high-performance computer?

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. Office and Operations. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Science and Technology Technology. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Join our community. Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Franchises.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

It’s written by David Brown and is the origin story of David Brown and David Cohen’s first company Pinpoint Technologies. Like many other startups, it had many ups and downs but the David’s created a very successful, profitable business that was acquired by ZOLL (a Boston-based public company) in 1999.

Boston 137

Boston Cofounder Partner Leadership 137

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. I don’t think you need operational experience to be a good VC but Mark Suster’s great new post illustrates the difference. [.] Steve Yuri Ammosov , on November 17, 2009 at 8:31 am Said: A startup that does not aim to generate revenue sounds extremely disturbing to me.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Stitch Fix’s personalization technology creates a very similar dynamic within women’s fashion.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

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 still have to get sales, operations, finance, HR & corp dev right to win.

IPO 391

IPO Finance Valuation Naming 391

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. Our reputation with founders has then enabled us to invest in great entrepreneurs building the great new technology companies. How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money?

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

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. Offers specialty eye care using world class state of the art technology. BoConcept New York (Eastern). Boasting revenues of up to $1.5

Small Business 140

Small Business New York Denmark America 140

Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

2 – Our Flagship Technology. When filing for incorporation ATLAS Technologies was already taken, so Mobile was added since that’s our focus. Thanks to Steve Wood, ATLAS Mobile Technologies. #3 I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line.

Naming 48

Naming Technical Review PR LLC 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost. The wedding industry is notoriously one of the least technologically advanced retail sectors. Image Credit: Brittany Haas.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Previously, he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arrowhawk Capital Partners, an investment company and the Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Golden Pond Healthcare, Inc. Stefanova has 15 years of international experience in the financial and technology industries.

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Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

I take my hat off to people like Adam Miller , the CEO of LA-based Cornerstone on Demand, who started at the exact same time as I did (November 1999) and is still the CEO but now of a public company valued at around $2 billion. Its a big to-do list and one that demands someone experienced in operating at this sort of scale.

Silicon Valley 150

Silicon Valley IPO Demand Revenue 150

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. The company was purchased by United Technologies Corporation for $18.4 Founded in 1902, 3M was once known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts. billion in September 2011.

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Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. 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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. 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.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. Lean Startup has gone mainstream.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” This happens anytime someone is operating in a situation where their assessment of risk is far lower than the actual risk to which they may be exposed. What was it in 2003?

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Employee Internet 74

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 1, 2013

I invested in Silicon Valley from 1999-2003 and in NYC pre and post 2008 financial crisis. In my view, what makes today different than the last tech downturn is the proliferation of technology in the mainstream culture, and digital media is an integral element of this. I’ve seen this movie twice before as a VC.

Silicon Valley 84

Silicon Valley United States Portfolio Internet 84

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. He was to head up UK operations.

Founder 299

Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I have been in and around technology for over ten years. In your mind, what is different in the way companies need to operate in that post-unicorn stage? . And a lot of times, there are technological underpinnings.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. I believe it’s truly morning in the technology sector.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347