YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2020

Her blogs are definitely more on the serious and sobering side, but she has won awards for nursing blog of the year in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. KevinMD – KevinMD is a website founded in 2004 by physician Kevin Pho. Her motto for her blog is simplistic and to the point: Be informed. Stay healthy. Save money.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. In 2017, he purchased a $40 million home, maybe to provide a stable environment for his two young children. It's steadily risen to the most popular toymaker spot once more. Thanks to Kavin Patel, Convrrt ! #29-

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). What’s also interesting is that the DPI today is still less than the TVPI four years ago. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I happened to be one of the judges for the Colossus Inno 2017 competition that awarded $100,000 grand prize to BluSense Diagnostics from Denmark. Started in 2004, it has helped over 500,000 startup founders to receive seed money and has raised over $1 billion in investment capital for them.

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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. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 Marty Zwilling First published on Huffington Post on 06/12/2017. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Your success may depend on it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2004, the man behind Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic (airline), Richard Branson, established Virgin Galactic to become “The World’s First Commercial Spaceline.” I think I’d be very disappointed if we’re not into space with a test flight by the end of the year,” Branson told the UK’s Daily Telegraph in April of 2017.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

Some real-life examples of this include: Martha Stewart, whose company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, suffered and never fully recovered after she was found guilty in 2004 of charges related to insider trading. Former Uber CEO, Travis Kalanick, when dashcam footage of his argument with an Uber Black driver went public online in 2017.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. I have worked as a periodontist since graduating from Baylor College of Dentistry in 2004 and have owned a practice for 15 years. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day. Contact me at simon.rothschild@eltucano.de or 608-542-0880.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.) At the beginning of 2017, Lucy Sanders (NCWIT CEO) and I started looking for other space in Boulder.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

The year is now 2017, and the concept of being off your phone seemed offensive to many, but I was determined to test myself and see if it would make a difference. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. Flash forward five days. So, I decided to build the solution myself.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

I happened to be one of the judges for the Colossus Inno 2017 competition that awarded $100,000 grand prize to BluSense Diagnostics from Denmark. Started in 2004, it has helped over 500,000 startup founders to receive seed money and has raised over $1 billion in investment capital for them.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Mauborgne (2004). Radical Candor by Kim Scott (2017). Based on the idea that we all have an entrepreneur, manager , and technician inside of us, the book equips you to make the most of each skill set. Covering everything from strategy to productivity, it’s a must-read. Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Jared Spool at CXL Live 2017. The folks over at Kissmetrics were modeling the LTV of the average Starbucks customer, using data from 2004-2012. Though the data might be out-of-date in 2017, it certainly serves as a good example for developing a predictive LTV model. Should we bother monitoring micro conversions at all?

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

According to a study by CB Insights (2017), a software that gathers essential data from investors, companies and industries, more than 70% of startups do not exceed the first stage of venture capital investment. These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Those that didn’t provide mobile-friendly options in 2017 were hit with SEO penalties in their Google rankings, so it certainly pays to go responsive – that’s before you consider that a third of all online orders are placed via smartphones ! This means it provides a scaled up or down user experience based on the individual’s viewing device.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Many start-ups are going through ups and downs and this change would both incentivize them to hire more when things are going well and lay off less people in the downturns Examples from other countries: Russia reduced IT companies’ social contributions from 30% to 14% until the end of year 2017 2.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

million media files on all Wikimedia projects as of July 2017. Available since 2004, this site has a huge collection of free stock photos, wallpapers, backgrounds, textures and even insect photos. There are over 40.3 Each photo comes with its own Creative Commons (CC) license so please use prudently. Stockvault (Mixed Licenses).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In New York City, ride-hailing went from being negligible in 2014 to over 15 million rides per month by the end of 2017.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work. One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. If you put up walls, there’s no point.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

When the first DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition to build an autonomous car to complete a 150-mile route, was held in 2004, the concept seemed audacious and it was. I’m not sure where that rule comes from, but by that measure, we should see the first self driving cars on sale in 2017. The farthest distance traveled was 7.3

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. In 1991, as an undergrad, I wrote a paper on social cybernetics and its role in robotics.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Landon Ray: Yeah, that would have been 2004. We’re in August of 2017 is when we’re recording this so depending upon when you’re listening, you have an event coming up that you’re going to invite people to Santa Barbara in October. I’ve never made software before or even a website.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

In 2017, as a VC, I’m still fascinated by the topic of melding human interactions and feedback mechanisms with the latest advances in technology. Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. In 1991, as an undergrad, I wrote a paper on social cybernetics and its role in robotics.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

to-date, since we launched in 2017. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. Soon after that first investment, I started my first business, and am now on my fifth (all $1m+ in revenue, but not all ‘successful’). There’s also more competition than ever before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Although this law has just begun baring its teeth — transitional periods end July 1, 2017 — it’s only the start of even stronger anti-spam legislation. Cyprus – Section 06 of the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004. Belgium – Etat des lieux en juillet 2003, July 4, 2003.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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