ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

Fortunately, the advent of the internet has changed the way startups get their funding, making access to a variety of financial resources easier than ever before. These days, though, getting the financing for a startup doesn’t have to be the herculean task it once was. Crowdfunding.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. through the Yahoo! Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, Internet pioneers. Don’t go into VC.”.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

The article is right in that alot of buzz gets centered on consumer Internet companies like Google or YouTube and that on absolute market capitalization many of the big returns are found in the B2B type deals. However what is beginning to scare me is that valuations for these consumer internet plays are continuing to creep higher.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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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. The internet was young, business was terrific, and we had all the work we wanted. Thanks to. #4 4 – A Meaningful Impact. Photo Credit: Alexandra Napoli.

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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. Thorough internet search. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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BeyondVC

JULY 16, 2007

The article is right in that alot of buzz gets centered on consumer Internet companies like Google or YouTube and that on absolute market capitalization many of the big returns are found in the B2B type deals. However what is beginning to scare me is that valuations for these consumer internet plays are continuing to creep higher.

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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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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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. I think the same thing, the same metaphorical change, is happening now in domains outside pure Internet services. And by doing so dramatically expanded what was possible for entrepreneurs.

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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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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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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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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Hilton D – Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. What role will the internet play in the living room, and how interactive will our entertainment become? He started his first company in 1997 at the age of 14 and has also served in leadership roles at Stardoll and Advertigo. ([link].

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