Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Hyundai’s Assurance program, which debuted during the 2007–08 financial crisis, is a great example. De Beers made such an investment, even though a brand campaign could only soften the decline in sales during the 2007–08 crisis: Ally faced a different challenge.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2007: Mixed Signs of Growth” Unknown. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. citizens at all air, sea, and land ports of entry.

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United States Los Angeles Technical Review Programming 48

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick. Sachin Bansal.

Cofounder 141

Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. Women-owned businesses, according to the Forte Foundation represent about 775,000 new startups per year. According to the U.S.

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Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

By 2002 investments at the seed level had evaporated (there were almost no seed financings happening). 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.

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Early Stage Seed Stage Valuation Finance 105

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year.

Technical Review 241

Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change. HP Merger With Compaq.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. 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. We raised a lifetime grand total of $100,000 for that business in the form of advance payment from early customers.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The first iPhone came out in 2007 but didn’t make its way mainstream until 2010, when apps were released for purchase on iTunes. Digital music has also changed over time, thanks to streaming services like Spotify or Pandora, which took hold since their introduction in 2006 and 2002.

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Startup Social Media Global Incubator 126

Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. The simple economic truth. Here is a simple economic truth. Fixed overhead continues to eat into your cash month after month.

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Differentiation Revenue Cost Operations 62

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 145

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

What might be a more relevant date is May 22nd, 2007. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. It''s kind of a funny answer to "When did you start Brooklyn Bridge Ventures?".

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Venture Capital Stock Naming Technology 110

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2014

It transformed my life – with one minor change of an MX record some time in 2002 all the spam in my inbox disappeared. And it was a beautiful thing that Google acquired in 2007 for $625m. Well – it disappeared before it got to my inbox. Or even my server.

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Email Cofounder Cloud Video 125

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The 600-mark was reached in 2002 as the breakfast revolution got underway as all pubs opened six days a week to serve the first meal of the day. The company proved it was adapting to change when they added free Wi-Fi to all of their pubs, and in 2007 the first wedding was held.

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Asia Austin Europe Naming 98

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. I used 2007 as the marker to delineate this, but the trend probably started a bit sooner.).

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 28, 2016

million businesses in America in 2007, which were owned by women. million in 2002. Women entrepreneurs are making their way in the business world in a big way. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 That is up from 6.5 Women business owners are surging! It used to be a guys world. But not so much any more.

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Social Network America Social Media Networking 60

Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

million businesses in America in 2007, which were owned by women. million in 2002. Women entrepreneurs are making their way in the business world in a big way. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 That is up from 6.5 Women business owners are surging! It used to be a guys world. But not so much any more.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Networking America Social Network 95

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. The World will conclude this list for today. You see the same news I do, so there’s no point elaborating on the many threats to our society and to our economy.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming. The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere.

Marketing 162

Marketing Mobile Cofounder Venture Capital 162

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. -Online clothing, accessories and décor retailer with focus on independent and vintage-inspired fashion. Allows customers to select potential inventory through Be the Buyer program. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007. million businesses – between just February 2002 and April 2020. The net number of new firms created in the United States was negative – more companies closed than were being started. Not surprisingly, this was the largest drop ever recorded.

America 92

America Montana United States .Net 92

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. At Foundry Group, our significant exits (at least 10x capital returned) since we raised our first fund in 2007 include AdMeld, Zynga, MakerBot, and Gnip. I’m an investor in over 40 VC funds around the world (mostly in the US) and three of them are SBIC funds.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Similarly, when I was CEO, I radically changed the direction of my publicly held company in 2002. By 2007, I sold the company to Hewlett-Packard for $14.25/share. Certainly no board member or shareholder had the answer. It seems that all of my shareholders voted with their wallets and against their own best interests.

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Stock Vertical Leadership Founder 78

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5. 3/30/2007: 22.6. 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. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Doing some research shows that their last round in 2007 was Series F, so this must be Series G. The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. Word on the street is that the company is growing and profitable.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. By the end of 2007, the REF had delivered more than 550 types of equipment and more than 75,000 individual items. After being ignored for decades, Boyd’s OODA Loop drove the U.S. war fighting strategy in both Gulf Wars. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean.

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Silicon Valley Afghanistan Iraq Kuwait 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. In 2007, Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox for a reported sum of $925 million. The idea took off and Bikoff responded to the success by expanding the drinks to national distribution.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Lefkofsky launched InnerWorkings, a business-to-business online printing firm, in 2002 and took it public in 2006; it’s now run by CEO Eric Belcher, ’95. In 2007, they started Mediabank, a business-to-business media-buying technology firm whose platform powers over 40 percent of North American media spend across all media types.

Cofounder 61

Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Similarly, when I was CEO, I radically changed the direction of my publicly held company in 2002. By 2007, I sold the company to Hewlett-Packard for $14.25/share. Certainly no board member or shareholder had the answer. It seems that all of my shareholders voted with their wallets and against their own best interests.

Stock 52

Stock Vertical Leadership Founder 52

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. It was 2007. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. They seem to have bounced back nicely. I remember being a few months before my wedding wondering whether I would walk down the aisle unemployed. I was baffled.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2012

Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau. March is Women’s History Month. million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S., says the Center for Women’s Business Research.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Small Business Founder Search 60

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/2002: 82.5 3/30/2007: 22.6 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. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318