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MAY 10, 2011

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JUNE 7, 2011

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MAY 4, 2011

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 9, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. round closed in June 2004. Series A Preferred.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

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MAY 16, 2011

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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. In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. So what’s left?

Silicon Valley 217

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. The current market value of Panasonic, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric until 2008 when the business formally changed its name to Panasonic, is $66 billion.

Entrepreneur 92

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

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Transformify

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Genashtim Innovative Learning is the pioneer for eLearning in Asia, having started in 2004 with a globally recognized online MBA program from some of the top universities in the world. Since 2008, Genashtim became a partner of eCornell in Asia - the eLearning arm for Cornell University of Ithaca, New York.

Partner 70

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

approx 2004-09. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2008: A Down Year in Investment Dollars But Not in Deals” Unknown. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner).

Angel Investor 114

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies.

Software 70

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Archive Select Month October 2010 (6) September 2010 (5) August 2010 (2) July 2010 (7) June 2010 (2) May 2010 (12) April 2010 (7) March 2010 (8) February 2010 (6) January 2010 (3) December 2009 (9) November 2009 (6) October 2009 (11) September 2009 (12) August 2009 (2) July 2009 (8) June 2009 (7) May 2009 (9) April 2009 (11) March 2009 (6) February (..)

Java 43

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Archive Select Month October 2010 (6) September 2010 (5) August 2010 (2) July 2010 (7) June 2010 (2) May 2010 (12) April 2010 (7) March 2010 (8) February 2010 (6) January 2010 (3) December 2009 (9) November 2009 (6) October 2009 (11) September 2009 (12) August 2009 (2) July 2009 (8) June 2009 (7) May 2009 (9) April 2009 (11) March 2009 (6) February (..)

Java 43

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Thanks for the insight!

Demand 167

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

In Austin in 2008, I cofounded Sixclear, and led it until 2016. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year. We both had started multiple organizations previously. Sixclear automated the research labs and production environments of customers like NASA, Cisco, GE, and various US National Labs.

San Francisco 48

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For the purposes of this post, startups are companies started post financial crisis (since 2008), either private or public. Airbnb (founded 2008) – while not officially a fund, Airbnb made several dozen investments in startups off balance sheet and has also launched an internal hedge fund that reportedly makes $5 million a month.

Balance Sheet 201

Balance Sheet Startup IPO Venture Capital 201

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages?

Valuation 319

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004. In 2008, the number of new businesses registered reduced by 5% compared to the previous year. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs survey discovers rising demand for skills, for example, active learning, flexibility, & stress tolerance.

Entrepreneur 123

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages?

Valuation 295

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories.

Founder 329

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Google Maps was introduced to us all in 2008, with Google Earth and Street View added a few years later. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days. YouTube now offers 60 million songs to stream for free.

Startup 124

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

Among a sample of companies started in 2004, two-thirds of founders were in the 35-54 age bracket. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. The vertical axis measures the “percentage of individuals.

Silicon Valley 233

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2008, the company’s first rocket, Falcon 1, reached orbit successfully and, since its founding, SpaceX has had ten successful flights of its space vehicles to the International Space Station and continues to make pioneering advances in rocketry.

New Mexico 125

New Mexico Albuquerque Mexico Egypt 125

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2011

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. The incentive is too strong.

Stock 97

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2011

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JUNE 27, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 18, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2011

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

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