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. It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. 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.

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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. Some of the most prominent names in the industry charge hundreds of dollars for a seat in their auditorium. The bigger the name, the easier it is to quantify quality.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers. The things you learn in tough environments. We were family. We ARE family.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

We’ve recently discussed several useful topics for small businesses and startups, including naming your company , how to make you taglines stand out from the crowd., Also consider how people with slower internet connections will view your site. Nowadays people are putting the name into Google to find sites.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Shelley Hunter went from a systems analyst to the spokesperson for GiftCards.com, a website she started under a different name and was able to sell. I ventured into entrepreneurship in 2003, when I fell victim to my third layoff within a six year time span,” she says. “I Reason #24: The internet offers more sales possibilities.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Don’t be fooled by the name. Fred Wilson is a widely known blogger and Venture Capitalist who’s been publishing posts daily since 2003. If you’re looking for an endless stream of tools and advice to improve your business across the board, be sure to check out Duct Tape Marketing. AVC’s MBA Mondays | Fred Wilson.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2017

Passion for making the Internet do exciting and wonderful things.” ” I know him from an angel investment in Dogster, a company he founded and ran from 2003 to 2011 when he sold it to SAY Media. But whenever I see his name, I think of him fondly. I haven’t kept up with Ted other than a periodic email.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2003, he was the founder of Nigeria’s first online-realtime Point of Sale (POS) electronic payment system and in 2004 created West Africa’s first locally issued and processed online-realtime international payment card: Ecobank MasterCard. Here come the drones. The company now has more than 17 million users. Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time. It is written by Ronald Mannak, who is currently the CEO of a startup named Yobble. What follows are solely his opinions.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler. MetaCrawler. s, but the site is still in use and relatively popular today.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2011

Don’t let Forbes ‘s chosen name for the best of the best fool you; nobody gets to consult Fortune 500 companies on internet marketing strategy by building a technique based on fortune alone. Marketing guru Amish Shah was no stranger to these fumbles when he began his marketing and consulting empire back in 2003.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. (Unless it’s a high-end supercomputer with a computing capacity of 10 000 regular PCs.)

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. The name doesn’t matter. Seems like a shitty deal, doesn’t it? And this isn’t something new. This happens to big sites too.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose was, John (05:27): Yeah, of course, it's so cliche now, but I like to tell even 30 year olds about a dialup internet and things of that nature. John (11:25): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time.

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A Crowded Space

MAY 3, 2018

Award-winning author and journalist David Kushner wrote the book in 2003, but the lessons and trends discussed are as timely now as ever. Football with guns,” as a player named Dr. Rigormortis put it.” It features the two cofounders of the company, John Carmack and John Romero.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Once you’ve posted something on the internet, it can go viral within seconds, leaving no room for a do-over. Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some new partners coming in, and at the end of it, it was really myself and another gentleman named Mike who was the CEO and I was basically the CTO and I was in charge of the product. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. You name it, we’ve got it.

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Board Effect

MAY 19, 2021

One of the grant programs you may have overlooked comes from a grant maker whose name you probably see every day—Google. Google processes internet searches by the trillions. In fact, Google has awarded over $10 billion in free ads since 2003. Google Grants is a program that you should have on your radar, and here’s why.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. John Jantsch (13:37): Yeah, I actually, I started my blog in 2003 that I talk about being in the right place at the right time. John Jantsch (06:24): Yeah. Things of that nature.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. We were once looking at a very hot market segment (which I can’t name or the people I’m speaking about will be obvious). If you’re way better than me, I’m probably not playing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

The point is that I usually have a pretty good feel when a topic is trending or a movement is growing on the Internet. It took them 8 years of work to shoot, edit and distribute the film, but in the past week, it has turned Kony into a familiar name to tens of millions of people around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Mark Bao at Junior Biz , Feb. 22, 2010: Business wunderkind. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A name like 500 Startups says it all. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. If you hear groveling at any point today, it’s likely remnants of Pandora execs speaking in front of Congress yesterday, where the company begged for legislation to lower music licensing fees for Internet radio.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com. In 2004 I began blogging.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

This act, passed in 2003, establishes guidelines for sending behavior, content, and subscription compliance, while defining commercial email messages (which are different from transactional or relationship-based emails). China – Measures for Administration of E-Mail Service on The Internet (2006). CAN-SPAM Act.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Social Media Explorer is also the name of Falls’s consulting company which focuses on strategic counsel for medium and large companies in the realm of social media marketing, digital marketing, online communications and public relations.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Tamara’s name is synonymous with technology and marketing. She was named one of Forbes top 30 Women Entrepreneurs To Follow On Twitter and ranked as one of the 200 Most Fearless Women Online in Social Media. She has also authored many best-selling books for Amazon on sales, marketing, entrepreneurship and small businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

This is the tool I use most often to get lots of info. [link] Alexa Toolbar – Alexa is a service that collects data on people surfing the Internet using the Alexa Toolbar. The key number they produce is called an Alexa Ranking. This is in theory an estimate at the amount of traffic a site receives.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2015

However, another piece of legislation, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, requires that your privacy policy on your website must outline: The types of data gathered, How the data may be shared with other parties, The process your customer can follow to review and make changes to the data you have on them, and.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. What is branding? You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. The basics.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

— Frank Sculli co-founded of BioDigital , in 2003 to build a kind of flight simulator for doctors that would be used to train them in specific medical procedures. We’re addressing the) same problems but we wanted to solve the problem in a much more scalable way so we saw, around 2011 … the Internet was going to support 3D natively. …

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