Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

For example, Startup is a programme that provides support and training to enable women with convictions to become self-employed, and The Fredericks Foundation is a charity that provides loans to people who want to set up or expand a business but are excluded from mainstream finance. Unlock has published ?a a list of useful organisations?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Truthfully.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). All the other stuff Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. There is no such thing as a uniform price. That’s fine. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Now it’s time for the Finance, Portfolio and Expansion teams to take over. How did the site come about? I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. 4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. Can you find a way to improve on what already is generating revenue? . Thanks to Laurence J. Stybel, Stybel Peabody Associates, Inc. ! #3- and many others. .

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. 4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. Can you find a way to improve on what already is generating revenue? Thanks to Laurence J. Stybel, Stybel Peabody Associates, Inc. ! #3- and many others.

Entrepreneur 54

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Featuring interviews with business owners and advice on everything from HR to finance, its somewhere both beginners and seasoned pros can find value.

Entrepreneur 101

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Today, Rover announced that Menlo Ventures has led a new $12m round of financing. By 2003 nearly all of their competitors had failed, the companies that went public pre-bubble were trading sub-$1 / share, but ServiceMagic was growing like crazy and was very profitable. My Investments dogs Financing madrona menlo ventures rover'

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. Entrepreneurial experience.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Since 2003, he has been a member of the State Bar of California. He has contributed to publications such as Entrepreneur, All Business, US Chamber, Finance Magnates, Next Avenue, and many more.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 8, 2015

The fact that the trend has been going for some time – Google was founded in 1998 and Tesla and Facebook in 2003 and 2004 respectively – suggests that the bubble explanation can’t be the whole story. That said, I think that froth in the late stage financing market has contributed in the last couple of years.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. Hera Hub grew out of my personal need for flexible work, meeting, and event space. Yet, after a couple years I found working from home to be, at times, distracting and isolating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2016

By some estimates , humankind now captures the same amount of data in any two days than in all of history prior to 2003. Within many data-intensive domains such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, there is a huge amount of data stored on individual behaviors and outcomes. Datafication of offline and back-office activities.

Social Media 120

Social Media Analytics Global Finance 120

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2003, four months out of college and still without a satisfactory job, Waseem Malleye took a step anyone who has ever been frustrated in attempts to get their career started can appreciate. He took control of his destiny. His career trajectory has continued to move up ever since.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion. trillion in cash held by big tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2015

By some estimates , humankind now captures the same amount of data in any two days than in all of history prior to 2003. Within many data-intensive domains such as finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, there is a huge amount of data stored on individual behaviors and outcomes. Datafication of offline and back-office activities.

Social Media 120

Social Media Analytics Global Finance 120

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This sale turned him into a billionaire. Today, he is worth $1.5 Elizabeth Holmes. She was a sophomore student at Stanford University at the time.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2014

She started work in the Business Recovery profession in 2003 and has continued to pursue an ethos of working with distressed businesses to help them overcome their financial problems. Professionalisms business advice business finance Company Voluntary Process debt management financial management insolvency Nicola Layland'

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. From Google Finance. But now there’s a lot of info reported and a number of good, thorough analyses of S-1s as we enjoy a quiet but very real “boom” in the tech economy. A couple things factor into this.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The open database service Factual announced yesterday that it has secured $25 million in financing, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense.

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Semantic Database API Cloud 125

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. After developing his idea, Mycoskie sold his online driver education company and financed the shoe company himself. Believe it or not, but the uber successful retailer, J. Crew, was once on the fritz with plummeting sales and branding issues.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

By hosting all of this data in one financial dashboard, teams can have a central view of the finances of projects, along with the tools to make informed decisions that help them understand the financial performance of each field. How are team members performing and interacting?

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

When I sat down with my team and told them that we would generate positive cash flow no later than Q2 of 2003 and I planned to commit that to Wall Street, one of the best people on my team questioned the direction. There are many examples of companies that finance their way through massive profitless growth.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Finance Internet Founder 78

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

Startup 120

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City. Eventually, my mother grew weary of the amount of travel she was doing for her work, although still in love with the content and impact of her work.

New York City 118

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

That is when she decided to start Momentum Education in 2003, as a way of bringing the workshops she had delivered internationally without having to leave her home base of New York City. Eventually, my mother grew weary of the amount of travel she was doing for her work, although still in love with the content and impact of her work.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at The Independent , May 16, 2006: As an economist, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and current World Bank presidential candidate brings something completely different and equally valuable to discussions of entrepreneurship than CEOs and investment bankers. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

Startup 100

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2003: 44.6. Smart investors will want the founders and employees to be properly motivated post-financing, so there may be a way to a reasonable outcome for both you and your people. Financing capital market down round fundraising outkast' One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

When I sat down with my team and told them that we would generate positive cash flow no later than Q2 of 2003 and I planned to commit that to Wall Street, one of the best people on my team questioned the direction. There are many examples of companies that finance their way through massive profitless growth.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Internet Finance Founder 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? valuation and another person funds you with convertible debt at $5m valuation (high resolution financing) and your equity round finally closes at a $10 million valuation. Some thoughts on raising angel money.

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