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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Eliminate Stress And Reboot For Change In 2021

YoungUpstarts

Patterson began his consulting career at Arthur Andersen and Capgemini before helping found Lucidity Consulting Group in 2001. Joel Patterson is the founder of The Vested Group and author of “ The Big Commitment: Solving The Mysteries Of Your ERP Implementation “ He has worked in the consulting field for over 20 years.

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Pandemic, Boom, War, Correction. So Now What for Tech?

View from Seed

Comparisons have been made to the two most recent significant pull-backs of the dot com crash in 2000-2001 and Great Recession of 2008-2009. . Even in a sustained downturn, tech is likely to be a driving force of economic productivity improvements rather than the proximate cause of recession (as in 2001).

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The Anti-Israel BDS Movement Will Fail

David Teten

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . In the 19 years since the 2001 decision by NGOs to ostracize Israel with BDS, Israel’s per capita GDP has grown from $19,000 to $36,200.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are new to the entrepreneur funding game, like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were back in 2001, it pays to bring in a CEO such as Eric Schmidt to find investors, who was well-known to the investment community for his accomplishments at Sun Microsystems and Novell.

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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

2001 – Raj and I at our first ‘real’ office – Colony Square in midtown Atlanta. 2001 – This was at our party announcing the name change from NBN Designs to Spunlogic. Oh, and we used to be such babies :). 1998 – Raj and I (with Sasha and Gavin) at UNC-Charlotte. I think this was my first suit.