Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? If it wasn’t for a fierce conversation that I had with Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel Partners, Coremetrics would have gone out of business in early 2001. Fifth, after the incredible success of HomeAway and RetailMeNot, which were B2C roll-ups (i.e., It is just four-years old?—?for

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

From, you know, when I first stood up, my very first e-commerce site literally was in 2001 , I was Eloqua or Eloqua's beta client and constant contacts beta client. So consumers are, and B2B and B2C are starting to make decisions beyond the normal brand. Is the paper bamboo? Is it, what are we cutting down 10 million trees?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2017

In a more typical B2C context, whether you work at a restaurant, a call center, or as a consultant, nobody likes to be put on hold when asking for information. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. The boss is always right, and he or she can look for a better alternative than you at any given time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 That story for another day.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job. Anyone around then knows that B2B stood for “back-to-banking&# and B2C stood for “back-to-consulting.&# I took people’s money. And good VC’s feel the same way.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Companies are retrenching, VC firms are going through their own upheavals, and IPOs are non-existent.

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