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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

20012007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.”

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

First they pivoted from video rentals by mail to smart suggestions by algorithm then they followed by leading the streaming revolution to now global domination. Conant joined the team in 2001, just as sales were declining for the company and its market value was decreasing. I have been running a PR Firm, Whitegate PRINC since 2007.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Source: Pexels.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

In 2001, the towers were hit. Around 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis contributed to a recession that lasted through 2009. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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[Singapore][Event] How To Start And Own A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

He started his business from scratch and grew it into a public-listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2001. His products were sold globally in 33 countries and his brand won the Superbrands award 3 years consecutively. In 2007, Boyd sold off his entire interest in the company.

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