YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. Professionalisms accounting expense tracking finance management taxation William Olsen' He started his career specializing in IRS problems resolution and has been an expert tax practitioner ever since.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Like the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2017

Largely financed by the Las Vegas Sands organisation, it was described as “one of the world’s most challenging construction projects and certainly the most expensive stand-alone integrated resort property ever built”. One of the most significant developments has been the Marina Bay Sands Hotel. Investment as a whole.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2013

build Compaq Financial Services (CFS) from its inception in 1997 into a global force with over $3.7 billion in assets, and how he created HP Financial Services by combining two disparate captive finance companies after the merger of HP and Compaq.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. At the same time neither banks nor local governments had the cash to finance startups on the scale the country needed. It went bankrupt in 1997.). Like the U.S.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. having the honor to work for two third-stage companies, Apple and Dell.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

At the very minimum, we can expect to see a sharp slowdown in all of the ASEAN economies during 2020, while the eventual decline may ultimately be worse than the Asian Financial Crisis (or Asian Contagion) of 1997. before the end of 2020, down from its initial forecast of +4.8.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I watched, participated, and suffered through every type of creative financing as companies were struggling to raise capital in this time frame. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

America had this structure in place prior to 1997, and we should take a hard look at what has changed to render the small company IPO extinct (contrary to popular belief, it first became an endangered species before the technology bubble). I believe that the U.S.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. capital markets for listed equities have been in systemic decline since 1997, while every other major international equity market has been growing. The biggest industry waiting is computers and electronics with 23 deals seeking to raise as much as $4.8

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build. Support.com — On 2.5m invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. You can reach Chris at www.nothingtosay.com and @ChrisFRC. Prior to that he was Managing Director of the strategic alliances group at AltaVista.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Venture Financings we Discussed. This lasted from about 2001-2004. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

So get ready for some finance meets tech nerdocity below. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. The Valuation: Uber was priced at $45 USD per share giving it a valuation of around $82 billion USD. This means Uber is a more valuable company than Ford and GM combined.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. And you didn't have a name anymore.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. This mining scam is one of the most famous mining scams. Speculation soon soared and many people invested in the company. The company soon collapsed and its investors lost all of their investment money. Guru Scams.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

That’s what we teach in business schools and classic entrepreneurship: you develop a business plan, you get financed, and then you start. It’s out of date now, but if you look for it, you can find the 1997 Dun & Bradstreet research on causes of business failure that listed “too much money&# as one of the causes.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the five main objectives is to support co-ops, mutuals, charities and social enterprises by establishing a Big Society Bank, which will provide financing for social enterprises and other similar ventures. Conservative Party known as the “Big Society” has been launched and aims to empower local community entrepreneurs. and the U.S.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. This also eliminated the big risk for my potential investors that I wouldn’t be able to stay in the country, and so I was able to close the financing round for the company in November 1998. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory. What these all represent to me are new stacks for different domains that help solve financing, production and distribution problems. What about film making - maybe the stack here includes Kickstarter , VHX and Vimeo.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Does the CEO know what to do? One should interpret this question as broadly as possible. Want to see a great company story?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

After working as an administrator in the finance industry for years, I kept asking myself, am I really helping anyone with the work I do? In 1997 we were IT consultants. I want to make a difference, and, with my candles, I am coming closer to reaching this goal. Thanks to. #4 4 – A Meaningful Impact. 14 – Out of Necessity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Finance weenies not geeks. After a few years at “tech guy” I became frustrated that I was always relegated to solving just technical problems and I longed to be involved in the executive suite. You’re a tech guy. We take MBAs.

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blog.teamtreehouse.com

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Ben Gremillion started playing with pixels in the mid-1980s and building websites circa 1997. Learn how to start a company on the right foot with an introduction to basic business concepts, including corporate structure, marketing, finance, and accounting. Start Learning Web Design , Coding , How To Start A Business & More for Free!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. the FEC deals with campaign finance information, regulating and disclosing all that information. Hillary : That’s exactly right.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1997: 23.3. Smart investors will want the founders and employees to be properly motivated post-financing, so there may be a way to a reasonable outcome for both you and your people. Financing capital market down round fundraising outkast' One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. And I had all the VCs play head games with me. What I garnered was that many VCs secretly wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 or a market cap of $800M.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve encountered many of the different ways boards can interact under different circumstances, whether it’s problem executives, problem investors, CEO misbehavior, financing issues, business crises and more. WHY IS A STARTUP BOARD SO IMPORTANT? Unfortunately, I experienced this dysfunction personally at my very first startup, SocialNet.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

Shortel: $102mm pre-IPO with first round in 1997, Based on this data, one can see how many of the existing investors generated some great returns on absolute and relative terms. Limelight Networks: $100mm pre-IPO with the big round in summer 2006, $1.6b market cap.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

hamlesh : As CEO of Peritus Group, Hamlesh Motah talks about tech, finance, motorbikes, and pulling up troubled businesses. CEO_INGDIRECT : Peter Aceto, CEO of ING Direct Canada offers insight on finance, business, and even learning online. FuelOnline : Fuel CEO Scott Levy has been working in social media and SEO since 1997.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. Why Financing in Falling Markets is So Damn Difficult. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? And so it goes. Back to my non-VC example.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997. Financings. normal"> First-time financings accounted for 20. Financings. normal"> First-time financings accounted for 20. financings, plants the seeds for the next generation of successful companies. venture capitalists invested $1.6

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