K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). we began by building chat servers.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan. XML sitemap. VAT registered #867 0159 09.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Valve is a game developer corporation that started in 1996, making such electronic games as Alien Swarm and Left 4 Dead. The only correct approach is the one that works for them. Take a look at what these innovative companies have done. The company decided that they didn’t want or need a hierarchy, so they don’t have one.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

To be clear, IPOs, particularly IPOs raising less than $50 million, have become largely extinct due to unintended consequences resulting from a series of securities regulations that followed the rise of electronic trading networks in 1996. Government’s commitment to funding breakthrough innovation in basic scientific research.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong. We had recorded $1.8

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The US government last shut down in 1995 and 1996. Facebook’s IPO was obviously a debacle, and in the private investment sphere valuations from the seed through late stage have declined for the most part from their peaks in late 2011 through early 2012.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996 – 2010. Entrepreneurial Leadership in Government. Financing Entrepreneurial Companies. Reading: Venture Deals: How To Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer (Mendelson, Feld). Reading: Alfred Kahn As A Case Study of A Political Entrepreneur (Weiser).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s. In the 1950s, Ball branched out to begin creating goods and services for the aerospace sector, eventually exiting the glass business for good in 1996.

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. It’s crucial that boards perform their due diligence in learning more about the steps their college is taking to remain in compliance with HIPAA in order to avoid fines and liability issues.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1996 – “It’s impossible to get to build a billion dollar company selling widgets at $15 and taking $1 commission one at a time”. 2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Everything). 2008 – “RIP, Good Times”.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth graduated from Pace University in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Seth also worked as an Auditor for United Government Services, a division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin auditing Medicare cost reports under contract with HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration) from 1996 to 1998.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 5, 2015

Without strong government the next 20 years we could see a lot more social disruption in the developed and developing world alike. Going forward here are three new technologies that should help maintain this trend: Genetically engineered crops: In 1996 there were 1.7 Back to the good news on food, courtesy of Peter Diamandis.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

This is an amazing lesson in how everyone can get it wrong for decades – the scientists, the government, and the doctors. I also understand he may have “edited” one of my favorite longreads of all time, Brian Arthur’s Increasing Returns and the Two Worlds of Business from HBR in 1996.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 So it should be no surprise to our government and to economists that we aren’t getting the job growth that we need in our tentative recovery from 2008—we need IPOs to create jobs. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded.

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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. We hope to see activists and governments use the tools of blitzscaling to change the world for the better.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO. jobs today.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This the building that houses the offices of the executive branch of the United States government. Which took me aback at first until I thought to myself that, at its core, the business of government is just groups of people attempting to make decisions - negotiating, cajoling, arguing, attempting to build consensus. It’s just people.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.    Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4)

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2012

When I started my first company in 1996, it was still very much a guys only world. Thanks to Dahlia Roth , Free Government Auctions At GovernmentBargains.com. Business Tips For Women Business Leaders. The business environment has changed dramatically over the last 15 years. Don’t just quit if something fails.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. The government and the airlines pay attention to opinion of their customers. What is Biometric Entrance? Why Should You Opt Out?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Generally the rights of citizens are protected by The Constitution and by the government.” “I Back then there were “email forwards.” This is an idea that interests me a great deal.

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