YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In 2004, her articles and interviews were featured in Supersport Magazine, a local print out for motocross enthusiasts. In 2012, Cynthia went on to publish her debut novel, “ The Sun Village Project “. Self published and self promoted, “ The Sun Village Project “ broke into the Amazon Top 100 at number 92 last April. .

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

What types of things might happen in 2012, as opposed to needing another 3-5 years to come to fruition. That aside, here are ten areas I think you'll see some interesting things happening in 2012. 2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool.

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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). Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages? Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

It was started in 2004 and it has since supported a lot of research programs devoted to studying diseases, searching for cures (malaria, Ebola, TB, Zika, cancer, muscular dystrophy, AIDS), and solving humanitarian problems like clean water, clean energy, developing more nutritious rice, and climate modelling in Africa.

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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). Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages? Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. I believe this was primarily because public market investors believed there was some chance that these high profile consumer companies would be once-in-a-generation type companies.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

Online commerce has seen explosive growth in the region – data from PayPal, from example, revealed that merchants based in Singapore saw an increase of online export sales on average by 68% to China, 55% to Hong Kong, 22% to Japan and 20% to Australia in 2012 alone. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

February 2, 2012. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. But it’ll be interesting to see how public market investors react when Facebook files an amended S-1 pre-IPO with Q1 2012 numbers, particularly if there’s similar Q1 slowdown in ad revenue. Facebook, Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2014

When I started blogging in 2004, it was all about transparency. And if you want to really understand transparency, look at Rand Fishkin’s epic post on Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing in 2012. Authenticity has once again become a trendy word. Fred Wilson led the way and I happily followed. Now that’s transparency.

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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). Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. But what do we see from some of the more recent (but mature) vintages? Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2014

In 2004, her articles and interviews were featured in Supersport Magazine, a local print out for motocross enthusiasts. Author and blogger Cynthia Griffith got her start in the freelance world as a songwriter, and has worked with hit makers The Legendary Roots Crew, Timbaland, and Pras of the Fugees to name a few.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

March 8, 2012. But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. And Why 20%?

IPO 100

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. The deal closed only four months later in August of 2012. Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. Highly profitable. They only had 13 employees!

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded. Facebook IPO 2012 – 8 years after it was founded. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. Uber IPO 2019 – 10 years after it was founded.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Unconscious Branding by Douglas Van Praet (2012). Mauborgne (2004). In Delivering Happiness , the late Tony Hsieh details how he built an incredible company culture and went to extremes to make customers and employees happy. Written in narrative form, Hsieh shares why the trifecta of profits, passion, and purpose is key to success.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Despite their collective efforts to provide these guidelines, they have been unable to prove that certain traits in individuals consistently lead to entrepreneurial success (Moroz & Hindle, 2012). Personal strengths are a culmination of our natural talents and how much we develop those talents during our formative years.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

The founders in their “Founders’ Letter 2012″, a large part of which I’ve copied below, explain that their reason is to free themselves from outside pressures so they can manage for the long term. FOUNDERS’ LETTER 2012. You can read more about this on AllthingsD. Introduction.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2012

in 2012, previously holding positions as president and co-chairman. In 2004, Skinner was named CEO of McDonald’s Corp and under his leadership the company has increased sales by almost $20 billion, earning Skinner the title of CEO of the Year in Chief Executive magazine.

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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. “We percent, with less than 13 outlets in a nation of 170 million people.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2016

Susan Williams winning bronze in the 2004 Olympics. A bronze medal winner in the 2004 Olympics, American triathlete Susan Williams says to give it your all. “In The Great Britain Paralympics team, in 2012. Lessons entrepreneurs can learn from top Olympic athletes. Image via NBC Olympics. Though amazing things could happen.”.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

And they want to be seen displaying compassion because they want to be loved themselves.” ( West, 2004 ). Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. People experience conspicuous compassion : they donate because they want other people to perceive them as compassionate. For $5, you get Y.

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Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It should be noted that this percentage decreased as the rounds progressed, obtaining a final figure of 1% success, in which are companies currently recognized as Uber or Airbnb and that in the study were valued at more than one billion dollars (unicorn companies).

Venture Capital 77

Venture Capital Cofounder Finance United States 77

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2004: 31.6. 3/30/2012: 15.5. 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

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Since 2004 we have released six vintages of this super premium cabernet sauvignon wine. Philippe Melka made our 2004, and Keith Emerson , the Director of Winemaking at Vineyard 29 since 2005, has made every subsequent vintage to date.

California 35

California Naming Design 35

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The folks over at Kissmetrics were modeling the LTV of the average Starbucks customer, using data from 2004-2012. (If you don’t sell anything for money, your main KPI can be a number of leads and conversion rate.). How does this look in reality?

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Metrics Acquisition Conversion Revenue 121

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003.

Email 63

Email Michigan Social Network Cofounder 63

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. I started Founder.org in 2012. Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Now I live on airplanes and the TGV train.

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Founder Entrepreneur North America Startup 60

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2004: 31.6 3/30/2012: 15.5 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

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Occam's Razor

MAY 14, 2012

The graph shows the change over time, starting in Jan 2004. It used to fall behind lag the other two in brand queries, but you can see how starting late 2009 (bad year for Target in this context) Amazon overtook Target and now (2011, 2012) is casting a big shadow over Target. This is a lot more interesting.

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Analytics Search Advertising Metrics 128

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. ► 2012. (1). June 21, 2011 4:21 PM. Post a Comment.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Updated July 10, 2012, 7:57 p.m. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. About 14% of the technology firms that have held initial public offerings between January 2011 and the end of June 2012 went public with at least two share classes—more than twice the 6.4%

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Voice, and never used the “Dialpad” brand again.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 93