Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2011

The digital native, a term first coined by Marc Prensky in his seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in 2001 (and later a book called – Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning “), is today known by many names. Since their teens, the Internet and mobile phones have been part of their lives.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

We box shadows--especially on the internet. I've been in venture capital (with the exception of a year in product management and two years as an entrepreneur) since 2001, when I started doing late stage venture and fund investing at a big financial institution. How many times do we do that?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Hosted software deployment typically means the software vendor provides or manages the server infrastructure and operating system/database and the users access the enterprise software via the Internet. Wayne has lead WorkWise since 2001 and has been a leader in the enterprise systems space for over 20 years.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. At the same time, acquisition opportunities will expand as large existing companies, unable to keep up with the pace of innovation in these emerging Internet markets, will “innovate&# by buying startups. Carpe Diem.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2016

I’m equal parts baffled and agitated when I see someone complaining about how adblock is killing the Internet. First and foremost is the fact that Internet ads haven’t been relevant for a very, very long time. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001. Websites, they claim, need advertising revenue to survive.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. Some of the many ecommerce examples include Alibaba, Newegg, Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Target. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2014

Customers who didn’t receive what was promised will take their business elsewhere, or even worse, take to the Internet to spread the word about their bad experience. Over time, employees who fit this profile will cause your market share to drop, especially if you operate in the fast-moving consumer goods space. The feel-good tagline spouter.

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

After getting the loan, the business was able to weather 20 years of intense and growing competition from the internet, the elimination of airline commissions to travel agencies, and a lengthy economic recession to achieve over $240 million in revenues in 2010, a company record. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew. In 2005, GoDaddy.com became the world’s largest ICANN-accredited registrar on the internet. It was not very long ago that most people were unfamiliar with the Internet. Father Knows Best GoDaddy is a familiar name on the Internet and with good reason.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Let us look at examples of the last two major computing cycles (prior to the Internet). As you can see, we are poised to hit the major adoption wave for the Internet technology platform over the next 8 years. The internet is working. A lot has changed since the internet bubble eleven years ago. Today, there are over 2.1

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. They did have a website, yes, and also social media handles.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people. As a result, the expectations of what the Internet would be radically outstripped the reality of what it was.

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Rather than let you figure it out as you go, or scour the internet looking for answers, we’ve turned to the experts for a few words of wisdom. Oliver Emberton is the founder of Silktide, a successful British software company founded in 2001. That said, we’re talking about more than industry-specific knowledge.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Although studies of screen reading show no difference between reading from screen and from paper ( Dillon, 1992 ; Bernard, 2001 ), there could be some validity to this argument. However, this has not been borne out by recent evidence ( Bernard, 2001 , Boyarski et al.,

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

When Johnny Earle, the founder of Johnny Cupcakes, started in 2001, he didn’t make baked goods; he sold t-shirts about baked goods! Leverage the power of the Internet to reach a global audience. What makes the difference between an ordinary service business and a startup is how fast the startup grows into a big company.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

That perfectly describes how 2001 felt to me. We now have at least one generation of VCs and entrepreneurs who didn’t experience the collapse of the Internet bubble. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.) I know how the flowers felt.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2020

The movement was born at the 2001 World Racism Conference at Durban as an attempt to pressure Israel, despite the ongoing support of Israel’s government and citizens for a two-state solution. . of the world’s internet population. Boycotts can be effective when buyers have an alternative.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2017

Between the spring of 2000 and the end of 2001, I had the worst, most stressful, and most painful business period of my life. I remember the trigger point being a 3/20/2000 article in Barron’s titled Burning Up: Warning: Internet companies are running out of cash — fast. They are both worth reading right now.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

In 2010 the City of Los Angeles started trying to crack down on tax receipts of Internet startups allocating them to the least favorable gross-receipts tax bracket taking up their city tax by 500%. Dedicated Public Servant : Garcetti has been a member of the LA City Council since 2001 and was a three-time president. The result?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In 2001, I entered the publishing industry, figuring I could use the general services turnaround skills I had developed after B school in an industry in turmoil as a result of the internet and the changes. Thanks to Yaniv Masjedi, Nextiva ! #4- 4- My story in the publishing sector. Photo Credit: Joel Poznansky.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Back at the tail end of the Great Internet Bubble in 2001, as all the big technology companies began missing their quarters by giant amounts, I found myself wondering how none of them saw it coming. Where do lies come from? To answer that question, I thought back to a conversation that I had years ago with the incomparable Andy Grove.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. Out of that total, they funded 967 Internet deals with $6.7 Out of that total, they funded 268 Internet deals with $3.2 To compare the two, in 2011 U.S.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet. I got my greencard approval in 2001, a few months after 9/11. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). It’s a tricky question with no clear answer. There are trade offs. And it obviously depends on the kind of business you’re building.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Nobody wanted anything to do with Internet companies. You’ll have to sort though how much is sour grapes versus reality but … wouldn’t you rather have all data points? My story briefly. I had 5 investors at the time. That “nobody knew me&# was being polite.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 9, 2014

billion to 3,995 deals, with investments in internet-specific companies reaching the highest total since 2001. Research from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC) reveals that in 2013, US venture capitalistscommitted $29.4 The idea is simple. Venture capitalists fund projects that demonstrate a high probability of success.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life. So, in hindsight, the great Internet bubble of 2001 was very powerful and useful to me, even though it was very painful.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

David: I’m also a serial entrepreneur who has founded half a dozen companies, including Angelsoft, which provides the underlying Internet infrastructure for most of the world’s organized angel investing ecosystem. My first Internet venture in the early 1990s took about $20 million in venture capital to get to our product launch.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

It’s the summer of 2001. Many Internet companies are struggling. By breakfast in the summer of 2001, the stock was trading under $1 / share. He certainly didn’t have to get up every day and go to the office, which by the summer of 2001 was a real business battle on multiple fronts. I was exhausted. But he did.

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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. Commercial email began in 1978 and exploded with the widespread growth of the internet in the 1990s.

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