YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. He co-founded Archiweb in 1998, an award-winning leader among web design companies in SE Europe, and envisioned the later-to-be stock agency in early 2000.

Social Media 186

Social Media Media Stock Clickthrough 186

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

The early 2000’s was also when the likes of legendary serial entrepreneurs Musk, Branson, and Jeff Bezos founded their own space tourism companies. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Anderson, and Mike McDowell charged a wealthy Californian $20 million for eight days of space orbit. Named after Alan B.

New Mexico 126

New Mexico Albuquerque Mexico Egypt 126

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 2004-09. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. DeGennaro & Dwyer: “Expected Returns to Angel Investors” 603. Wiltbank: “Siding with the Angels: Business angel investing – promising outcomes and effective strategies” 1080.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

Boston 206

Boston Internet Entrepreneur .Net 206

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

It was started in 2004 and it has since supported a lot of research programs devoted to studying diseases, searching for cures (malaria, Ebola, TB, Zika, cancer, muscular dystrophy, AIDS), and solving humanitarian problems like clean water, clean energy, developing more nutritious rice, and climate modelling in Africa.

Search 138

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 138

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank. Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

Founder 329

Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly. In 2003 the angels started to reappear (some of the best angel deals of all time were done between 2004 and 2007) and the super angel language started to be used around 2007.

Early Stage 105

Early Stage Seed Stage Valuation Finance 105

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days. For starters, there are more startups. What’s behind this boom?

Startup 124

Startup Social Media Global Incubator 124

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 15, 2013

Tweet During the dot com boom around the year 2000, and the years that followed it (this was before I started blogging in 2004), I was a guy in his early twenties looking for a business idea to make my riches with online.

Business Model 109

Business Model Internet Restful Marketing 109

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Starting a tech company after this?

Founder 174

Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Government Nevada Cost 183

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

If I think back over the sixteen years I’ve been investing in startups the market for private company investing was tough from 2000-2004, from 2008-2011 and is getting tough again now. Over seven years it is almost inevitable that the markets will turn bad at some point.

Startup 60

Startup Metrics Valuation Operations 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.) He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment.

Cofounder 73

Cofounder Green Community Engineer 73

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. However, entrepreneurs just put their heads down and continued to accelerate the current web revolution which started around 2004 with “ Web 2.0 &# being articulated by Tim O’Reilly.

Entrepreneur 143

Entrepreneur Finance Internet Web 143

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

Going from Esquire’s “2004 Sexiest Woman Alive” to Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2008” to special envoy to the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees in 2010 signals an incredible degree of brand flexibility on Jolie’s part.

New York City 100

New York City Social Network Washington New York 100

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services.

Naming 95

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 95

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself. By the year 2004, I had somewhere around 12 rentals. Things were going really well, and I was loving life.

America 100

America Florida New York New York City 100

Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2011

In 2000, Charlie and I became business partners when Mobius Venture Capital invested in The Feld Group and I joined the board. Over the next four years, I worked closely with Charlie and his partners at The Feld Group as they built the company before selling it to EDS in 2004.

Venture Capital 128

Venture Capital Partner Restful Web 128

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source.

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

OnlyOnce

MAY 3, 2013

But Sophie Miller Audette, one of our first 20 employees going back to 2000 and the sixth longest tenured person at the company today, has decided to retire and move on to other adventures in her already rich life. The first time was in 2004 when I quoted her memorable line, “In my next life, I want to come back as a client.”

Delaware 82

Delaware Leadership Employee Search 82

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. Democratize the automobile.” Ford wanted to make the automobile something everyone could enjoy, not just the wealthy or elite. In 2018, Walmart had $500.3 billion in revenue, with a total revenue of $136.3

New York City 135

New York City Connecticut New York Australia 135

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source.

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content. That’s what JibJab focused on. They did a rap battle between Bush & Gore – I tracked it down. I hadn’t seen this before. It changed everything.

Viral 303

Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source.

Retention 105

Retention Developer Customer Programming 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. million in 2004 to $6.5 Of course, you could always work backwards to find the source(s) of the problem too… Do You Understand Why Your Customers are Leaving? image source.

Retention 98

Retention Developer Customer Programming 98

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. And then secondly was the text.

CTO 77

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 77

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2000: 73.4. 3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. Enter Facebook. Facebook was everything that MySpace wasn’t.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Founded in 2000, Intellectual Ventures collaborates with leading inventors, partners with pioneering companies and invests both expertise and capital in the process of invention. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154