Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. It enables you to create content for your own platform, optimize and distribute it to other platforms then, in the end always having your content safe. What a miss, if you are unable to convert this interest! The Digital Native Effect.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. This states how the proceeds from a sale or dissolution of the company will be distributed. It was accept the terms or go into bankruptcy so we took the money.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. recession in 2009.”.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

That blog post – which turned into one of my most read posts ever – grew out of a study done by Correlation Ventures showing the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings during the years 2004-2013 as well as some of my own observations.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million, indicating a somewhat normal distribution. This article was originally written in May 2001, revised extensively in January 2011 and again October 2011. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1 million and the mode (middle number) for this data set is $2.0 Another angel round.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In 2001, Stewart Butterfield abandoned plans to build a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) after costs became too great; he built photo-sharing service Flickr instead. Because Stewart’s programmers are ten times more productive than they were in 2001 due to massive advances in programming language technology.

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Mucker Lab

DECEMBER 2, 2015

However, the rise of the Internet equalized if not flipped the ratio as the web (and mobile) created a new product category and distribution platform. For the first time, entrepreneurs could build consumer services AND distribute them at scale with almost no physical middle men and inventory costs. Take the example of MP3 players.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The goal was to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share – because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Wide Adoption.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. As people work much more remotely and in distributed teams, there's this very unsolved problem around knowledge management. Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Real world example: WebVan vs Zappos. Contrast this to Zappos.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

This is useful if, like most startups, you rely heavily on word-of-mouth distribution for customer acquisition. A 2001 study found that descriptive menu labels at restaurants “increased sales by 27% and improved attitudes towards the food, attitudes toward the restaurant, and intentions toward repatronage.”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

It was decimated because of lack of performance between 2001 and 2009, just like much of the rest of the VC industry around the US. The control over distributions and negative incentives to hold or distribute capital often generates bad decisions when companies go public. The paperwork is silly and the overhead is non-trivial.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We are running at a capacity of 9000 barrels each year and through our distribution (now in Ohio, N Carolina and a couple more locations that are coming up…) we just aim to get that out. Our microbrewery began in 2001. Besides, we love what we’re doing, so this is it. We intend to remain a local small business.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

We didn’t hide the challenges Magento faces in distributing an open source ecommerce solution when covered Magento last November , but customers are continuing to adopt it as their ecommerce platform of choice. Varien was founded in 2001 by CEO Roy Rubin and is based in Los Angeles.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. In this regard, I was extremely fortunate.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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VC Cafe

MAY 3, 2012

Inventor Benny Landa, who previously founded digital printing technology company Indigo, which was sold to HP in 2001 for $830 million said:“Each press can print in up to eight colors and operate at 600 dpi or 1200 dpi resolution, at speeds up to 11,000 sheets per hour.”. BG NEGEV LICENSES PARKINSON’S DRUG PLATFORM. DIGITAL GENERATION INC.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They know that in a Power Law distributed business, if they create value, it is going to be an exceptionally large quantum of value. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. Just like when you talk to entrepreneurs, I think they can internalize the fact that the overwhelming statistical likelihood is that they will create no value.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

In 1999 it was common practice to print the employee roster every week (including phone extensions) and distribute it to everyone. During the 2001 crash it lost all its value. My name is Diego, so my odds of being interested in a Spanish-language portal were relatively high. Ok, I understood why it would make sense to call me.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2001 and 2002 I learned a brutal set of lessons, including experiencing that $100 million of paper money going to $0 when Interliant went bankrupt. If you don’t know DPI, it’s “distributed to paid in capital and answers the question “If I gave you a dollar, how much money did you actually give me back?”

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Fortune and CNN had a partnership; I first appeared to talk about an article I’d written in 2001 about the bubble bursting. Look at Netflix and most recently Apple going beyond just distributing content to make their own. Content and distribution—Hollywood and Silicon Valley—they just have different ideas of what’s most valuable.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

” This was around 2001. We found a core distribution model that worked in terms of long-tail search. … I met these two athletes … one had a little bit of stint in the NBA, the other one had just graduated college and played overseas a little bit. I was like, “… It’s going to be big.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Then the risk of that product succeeding is lessened by network effects made feasible by app stores and digital distribution, driving up customer adoption.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2011

Pearson and Hattikudur were college sophomores when they and a few friends raised $5,000 to print the inaugural issue of Mental Floss and distribute 3,000 copies to Duke students. Mental Floss went national in 2001 when the founders scraped together enough money to put 8,000 copies on newsstands.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

The council has issued 63,000 credit transcripts since 2001. Like the Amazon marketplace model, this model should be higher margin than traditional sales, distribution, delivery, and service — even compared to Amazon’s original model of selling books online only (which was radical at the time).

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Remember that Eric Schmidt was brought onboard as CEO 10 years ago by Google co-founders Page and Sergey Brin to be the “adult” in the room (it’s hard to imagine, but Google was just a toddler — 3 years old — in 2001, and Page and Brin were both just 28).

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Personal Technology.

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