Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. The size of magazines seems to be expanding, marketing seems to be up and the number of tech announcements per day is dizzying.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I was thinking about some of the cool things I saw, read, noticed and digested around the world of tech for 2018. You’ll notice underlying the top 10 is what I regard to be the biggest shift in tech at the moment is the realisation that we have a technology wildfire raging. A bonus blog post for your holiday perusal.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Serving his community that evening as their Volunteer Fire Chief, Joe diligently scanned his first responder radio for any sign of distress. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Some shed tears. He had already put in a full day’s work.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Juniper Networks Inc acquired Altor Networks, a company specializing in security for virtualization technology. Virtualization technology is increasingly in demand as large corporations try to cut back on hardware in their data centers. The technology was developed in collaboration with Bar-Ilan University.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally. The era of the patriarch is nearing an end.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

The continual innovation of technology and product can provide infinite scalability for an Online Retailer. Phil Leahy, CEO Retail Global is passionate about making connections and has founded 2 major annual conferences for digital retailers. Phil Leahy – CEO Retail Global AU and Retail Global US.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

How does a globally-influential trade organization that counts 400 companies in its roster and is charged with driving the evolution of an entire industry get its start? Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). device compatibility was established.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Acelerar Technologies Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. Anupam Rajey from Lucknow, India, presented Acelerar Technologies , an outsourced accounting services BPO project from India. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 5; in Lund, 1999 ). Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Introduction. Part 1 provides typographical definitions.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

This means that personalization and related technologies left the “nice to have” category for good. The underlying technologies of recommender systems are becoming more and more polished, both technically and in terms of possible business applications. Moreover, implementing such widgets can be quite easy, technically speaking.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Pursue Global Markets 2. Pursue Global Markets. If you don’t have a business that can scale globally, then either don’t bother or just content yourself with staying small. Try these statistics on for size, from 1999 to today Asia’s share of the world’s Initial Public Offerings grew from 12% to 66%. In the U.S.

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Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Unfortunately, and founders notwithstanding, the collective global capitalist experience since private property rights were invented and enforced has shown that there aren’t enough of those people on this planet. Can these be separated? How can such a company ensure that the culture will continue after the founder’s eventual succession?”.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. To the first question, I would point to three main factors –payback for the 80’s and 90’s, globalization, and governmental intervention. For the U.S.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Globalization has increased the level of competition and introduced more turmoil to the business environment. If you want to take your business to the next level, you’ll need to be open to the current realities of the new global economy, and get more creative. million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. My parents were also small business owners. Thanks to Adam Karp, Lively ! workforce.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. Not surprisingly, this is the office where a lot of the ideas come from.”

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. The industry built slowly until a few years into the new century. that year, accounting for 67.9%

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls | Harvard Business Review – crowdspring.co/H4gLnT. Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014 | Forbes - crowdspring.co/H47XhY. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Global study: World not ready for aging population – Yahoo News - crowdspring.co/19LsRt2.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

market indices (Dow, S and P, NASDAQ) are trading lower today than they were in September 1999. Global stock market performance has significantly out-paced the U.S. And even better, the same technological trends that have made public market investing so difficult in the last 10 years have made startup (i.e.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest. Share and Enjoy:

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Here's what the data say about Israeli startups: They’re Israeli-run but with global footprints. We think so.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S. Tim Stewart, trsdigital.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

is due to two factors, principally “Americans’ false sense of security: the self-delusion that since nothing terrible has happened to the country’s IT infrastructure, nothing will.” With 17% or less of the global semiconductor fabrication infrastructure physically in the U.S., is following.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process. Target Selected.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. Global Best Practices. And with U.S.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

For public investors in Facebook to achieve returns comparable to those of Microsoft shareholders, Facebook would need to reach a market cap of $500 trillion, a number that well exceeds the total global market cap of all listed stocks. In contrast, traditional IPOs in the tech space have average around 2% trading volume on the opening trade.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s review all of our existing investments. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. Don’t spend like it’s 1999. And don’t think tech will remain immune.

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