Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

If the VC your talking to raised its last fund in 2002 then they likely don’t have much fire power for new investments. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals. Why does vintage matter to you?

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

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. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing.

Founder 174

Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. From 2002-08 Sec. That’s what you had to do then before the Internet. Blinken was Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Want to be a guest on the show?

North Korea 132

North Korea SEC Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 132

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Id reached out to him not because I was looking for information on how to pitch an investor, but because of the nature of his investment portfolio: of the six startups Boris invested in thoughout 2014, three are led by women. ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada.

Venture Capital 90

Venture Capital Founder Angel Investor Portfolio 90

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

In my work with small businesses and startups, I routinely find owners who rely on guessing at key customer drivers, and let their passion drive product focus, rather than data. With today’s technology, data flow and coordination are readily achieved through common Internet protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs).

Artificial Inteligence 210

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm API China 210

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing. March 13, 2012. Yesterday Yahoo! Mail, Sports, etc.

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel. You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year. Startup general interest' I forget which it was.

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Egypt Internet Metrics Hosting 145

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

“THIS IS GOING TO BE THE 3D INTERNET” a tech reporter boldly wrote. I was working there at the time, a young team member in his first startup post-grad school. I hope it doesn’t get lost just because it’s ‘old’ (2002–2009). When was this claim made?

Forecast 96

Forecast Hosting Engineer Design 96

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

For now, the title is “ Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City.” Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). I’m deep into writing my latest book. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community.

Community 142

Community Silicon Valley Incubator Colorado 142

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits.

Equity 315

Equity Founder Sweat Equity Cofounder 315

ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”? Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. Everyone else?

Marketing 109

Marketing Social Media Non-Compete Audience 109

www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. First mover advantage was a flawed theory that helped pre-product internet companies raise billions of dollars in the 90s. I hate the shroud of secrecy companies drape around their daily business, not just startups.

Stealth 90

Stealth NDA Startup IP 90

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

Cofounder 255

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 255

Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

It is my belief that without a doubt blockchain and in particular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are going to play a massive role in the day to day working lives of entrepreneurs and founders of various tech & non-tech related startups and businesses. 9- Internet of Things. It’s almost happening already.

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 50

Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”.

Widget 76

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 76

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

What has been their motive to set up the Startup? It was 2002, the SARS virus had hit China. Qiangdong “Richard” Liu of Jingdong decided to check out the Internet. As a first time Internet user, the risks were immense… 3. What’s the purpose of your Startup story? What sets them apart?

Houston 100

Houston Later Stage China Internet 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. Everything).

Widget 60

Widget Sales Cycle Social Network Government 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What gets you interested in a startup?

Vertical 265

Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Across both the startups I’ve personally been involved in (PayPal and LinkedIn) and the startups in which I’ve been an investor, I’ve seen a broad range of co-founder equity splits. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

Cofounder 173

Cofounder Equity Founder Sweat Equity 173

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2015

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Q&A with Greg Avery at the Denver Business Journal titled Brad Feld Q&A: Bringing depression out of the shadows in startups. It was part of a more extensive series on Depression, entrepreneurs and startups. Q: How common is the issue of depression in the startup world?

San Francisco 70

San Francisco Startup New York City Denver 70

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The “advertising is dying” drumbeat started in November 2002 when Gallup released this study that proved traditional advertising expenditures were not generating results. At the time, experts claimed that traditional ads would be replaced by digital advertising as Google started its rule over the internet. Find ways to engage them.

Marketing 92

Marketing Entrepreneur Demand Advertising 92

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

Preferred Stock 115

Preferred Stock Silicon Valley Seed Stage Venture Capital 115

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies.

Flash 70

Flash Equity Stock Finance 70

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

He started in online publishing before the Internet (with Prestel in 1980!). In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination. You have to be addressing a really nasty pain point.

Software 127

Software Startup Architecture Bootstrapping 127

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

Startup Life Entrepreneurship life success' If you’ve recently had some success, as you go into the weekend, take some time out to ponder how you are you thinking about this. And share if you have any insights! The post After Your First Big Success, What’s Next? appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Alaska Widget Colorado Angel Investor 166

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Internet and Online Business. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

This is why Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining became 3M in 2002 and why Kentucky Fried Chicken adopted KFC in 1991. A large portion of your company’s audience will find your business on the internet, making online research a smart place to begin testing business names. Research and Test Your Business Name Ideas. Online Research.

Naming 61

Naming Kentucky Minnesota Italy 61

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

And it’s possible to balance work and family when doing a startup. Family relationships influence founders and their startups. She discovered that investment banking wasn’t for her, and chose to do a startup instead. Customer feedback pointed her in a different direction: This was 2002. … .

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder New York City 120

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup. The closest I got to having a startup experience was being a member of the founding team of Forbes.com.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. I never went ahead with the PhD – I joined a startup instead, as it felt like the right thing to do. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62