Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. It’s true that it’s cheaper to start companies now and cheaper to get distribution. That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Usually it’s starvation — can’t get enough customers (distribution) to pay enough money for long enough (product/market fit). But also things like founders splitting up, not getting enough traction to self-fund or to secure the next round of financing, having to go back to a day job, and so on.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. Warning sign?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. 16- Declare victory over finances.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. I would argue that any first year finance student or computer science student would naturally assume this is how traditional public offerings already work (they would be wrong).

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Start-up | Mondays.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. We will hopefully close on a $2-3 million financing round at some point in January and I can get back to the full time work of running my business. Folksonomy.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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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.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x. The internet is working.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. trillion, it is by far the largest of its sort in the world and financed projects that in other settings may not have passed investment criteria screens. [3].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That is a common experience we hear from outsiders that there's only two cultures of Silicon Valley, and when we get into the funding and financing of companies, that that's really where the bias can come in. And my goal was that when vaccines were available, we will be using pop-ups as the kind of core vaccine distribution infrastructure.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

General simplified thought: The development, distribution and promotion of products and services to suit a specific audience in order to achieve business objectives. Our interests need to be broader than that of the marketer from 1950-2000. Finance: A solid understanding of what makes industries and the economy function.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Mo & I both have double majors with one being finance / econ. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009). Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. The percentage is the 12/31/11 portfolio value (including cumulative distributions) divided by the called capital. Accel Partners VII (2000): 122% (97%).

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Between working with the co-founders on the strategy, validating concepts with the users, assessing the analytics, driving features and functionality with the team, and working with finance on the new business model, marketing on acquisition, and the warehouse on fulfillment, you can imagine the workload Kate faced on a daily basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

It eliminates my cost of distribution. ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm. Her background is finance. But if you slice the math, if you kind of do the real cost analysis, it’s really hard to provide a meaningful level of support at $2000. I can hyperlink it.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Sometimes the companies simply struggle and grow as best they can with inadequate financing.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I’d like to think that I worked hard, but I was probably in the middle of the distribution of my colleagues at both PayPal and LinkedIn in terms of work ethic… neither the slacker nor the hardest worker.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. John Jantsch (21:56): You know, you mentioned obviously hybrid workplaces, distributed workplaces, you know, are, are certainly they've been going on for a long time. You don't look old enough for, to have, uh, been involved in that they, the about.com.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc. Semiconductors.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel.

North America 60

North America Iowa America Community 60

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. There are different insurance requirements, financing issues to work through and extensive technical product training, just to name a few. Then the key is to drive revenue on items the retailer either creates or controls the distribution channel.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. I find it surprising that a finance professor like Damodaran did not consider the impact of price on demand. Different Economics. New Use Cases. Use in less urban areas.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. Back in 2000 I followed the traditional VC trail, raised a lot of money to build (with a cofounder) one of the first interactive advertising companies. BlazeMeter can be used to simulate such attacks very easily and with extra-large capacity.

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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. Then the risk of that product succeeding is lessened by network effects made feasible by app stores and digital distribution, driving up customer adoption. Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 17, 2016

I’ve seen this before, as one of my first investments ever in 2000 was leading the first financing in SmarterChild , where that product and company faced many of these same questions. Given that it was 2000-2001, SmarterChild launched on the then dominant (only?) What did they see and do?

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content. I have around 2000 emails to verify. Awsome post btw. Yalcin Great list.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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