Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2019

For example, I still remember when Dean Kamen launched the Segway Human Transporter in 2002, predicting a transportation paradigm shift, and geared up to sell 10,000 per week for the next five years. Due to qualms of customers and governments, he sold less than 30,000 of the devices over the next five years.

Technical Review 226

Technical Review Leadership Portfolio Matching 226

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Alex Vukajlovic, is CEO of Zurich based asset management company Cape Capital which he set up in 2002, and Chairman of DealMarket which he founded in 2010. Moderator: Robert Savage, CEO, Track.com.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to Swissôtel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

Singapore 140

Singapore Asia Technical Review Acquisition 140

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

The total number of M&A deals in the US this year is projected to be a paltry 225 transactions relative to more than 450 deals just 2 years ago, which was the norm between 2002-2007, varying only by around 3% per year.

Technical Review 241

Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! Companies rich in intellectual property in all its forms – patents, processes, and people – attain purchase offers on factors other than last year’s earnings.

Intellectual Property 109

Intellectual Property Technical Review Forecast Global 109

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak. On top of this, the uncertainty about where we are in the economic cycle casts further doubt about the ultimate performance of these funds.

LP 256

LP IRR Distribution Portfolio 256

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2016

He moved to San Diego in 2002 and taught Engineering at Morse High School for five years, despite never having an Engineering degree. He moved to San Diego in 2002 and taught Engineering at Morse High School for five years, despite never having an Engineering degree.

San Diego 96

San Diego Bahamas Software Review Engineer 96

The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period.

Cost 168

Cost San Francisco New York City Ruby 168

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. Women-owned businesses, according to the Forte Foundation represent about 775,000 new startups per year. According to the U.S. for non-diverse firms.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

But we watched Sports Night on DVD from beginning to end around 2002. I’m the sports widow in this family – I don’t really care about or watch much professional sports. I remember watching five or six episodes at night at some point. We literally couldn’t stop and just raced through it.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Partner Email Sales 137

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. I’m going to share a bit of my own personal path as well as nine key techniques to making time, creating personal drive, and prioritizing activities that you enable you to accomplish anything. Enter the Craziness.

Technical Review 195

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Software Review Cofounder 195

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Compressing 80 years of history into a paragraph, securities regulation here is fundamentally a disclosure-based system.

SEC 158

SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2020

Titus III, CPA/PFS, AIFA is the founder of AMDG Financial and AMDG Business Advisory Services in 2002. If you work with an adviser but aren’t sure you’re happy with how that adviser is helping you, now might be a good time to get a second opinion so you can begin to build a team you trust.

Small Business 147

Small Business SBA Entrepreneur Software Review 147

YoungUpstarts

JULY 13, 2019

KMPlayer was first released in 2002, but was acquired by Pandora TV in 2007. KMPlayer has support for editing subtitles from right inside the player, selecting parts of videos as your favourite and make that part repeat. You can also remap the keys for the remote interface of the media player. Conclusion.

Media 138

Media Audio Metadata Software Review 138

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

In other words, the practical impact of corporate governance rights, as reflected by shareholder input into any decision made by the company, its Board of Directors or management — already minimal in the case of most public companies, notwithstanding decades of strident protest on the part of investor watchdog groups and sweeping once-in-a-generation (..)

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

Technical Review 117

Technical Review Software Review Conversion Sales 117

Up and Running

JULY 23, 2014

In 2002 I provided an exit for VCs who had invested in Palo Alto Software a few years earlier. As a founding director of Borland International, I had significant shares in that company when it went public in 1986, and that gave me an exit.

Exit Strategy 131

Exit Strategy Software Review Angel Investor Startup 131

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2002, the city established Medellín ACI at (Medillín ACI.org), is the Agency for Investment and Cooperation. Colombia’s second-largest city, Medellín, is probably best known for this accomplishment, with a reputation for supporting enterprise innovation and a growing knowledge economy. Companies promote international relations.

Colombia 146

Colombia America Technical Review Startup 146

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Software Review Conversion Sales 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Established in 2002 and operated for the first few years from a small single bedroom at their mother’s home, Justin and Jason Korinek have managed to increase their turnover every year for the last 17 years… they are clearly doing something right!

Reputation 164

Reputation Technical Review Lead Generation Customer 164

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients. The firm now has 600+ employees with Facebook vice-president Jay Parikh and former Symantec chief executive Enrique Salem on its board as of August 2013.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

Partner 74

Partner Software Review Technical Review Acquisition 74

Hearpreneur

JULY 29, 2018

In 2002 we bought roughly 150 domain names, most of which we still own. Funny, I don’t think in 2002 it was called crowdsourcing, but that is how DesignAShirt got named. I thought of the name, EMPTY NEST SUPPORT SERVICES, because that says it all. Thanks to Natalie Caine, ENSS ! #13- 13- Chose from various domain names.

Naming 78

Naming South Africa Africa Entrepreneur 78

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

Stock Options 70

Stock Options Cofounder Revenue Hosting 70

deal architect

JUNE 25, 2013

In The New Technology Elite, I cited a 2002 anecdote where Steve Jobs is supposed to have told Dan Wood, founder of Karelia Software, then a partner “You know those handcars, the little machines that people stand on and pump. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

Cloud 236

Cloud Software Partner Founder 236

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1 Q: What is the typical profile of angel investors?

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors. Startup success is all about the team. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles.

Oakland 330

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 330

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs. Like Ma, he comes from humble beginnings (he was born to a tea seller in a poor rural family).

India 85

India China Technical Review Africa 85

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. These people wished they had done it in their 20s but didn’t make that choice. I often tell people in this scenario to focus on a VC “fixer upper.”

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Liquidation Preference Silicon Valley IP 150

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties. The current agreement will replace the distribution agreement, although many of the clauses in the agreement remain the same.

Israel 96

Israel United Kingdom Austria Global 96

Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school.

Programming 78

Programming Ruby Cofounder Web 78

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Bernays believed that people could be influenced via crowd psychology and psychoanalysis. His “Torches of Freedom” campaign in the 1920s promoted smoking among women as a symbol of liberation, opening a new market to cigarette companies.

Software Review 105

Software Review Advertising Stealth Campaign 105

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Whistleblower policies date back to 2002 with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , which came about as a result of corporations that misled their investors relating to fraudulent financial reporting practices. A whistleblower policy is more than a core policy for nonprofit organizations.

Software Review 84

Software Review Government Retention Employee 84

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2020

He served as SmithBucklin President & CEO from 2002 to 2015. Givray is Chairman of the Board of Directors of SmithBucklin, the association management and services company more organizations turn to than any other. Henry is a dedicated, ongoing student of leadership, committed to speaking and writing as a way to serve others.

Leadership 95

Leadership Audience Management Community 95

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. And this isn’t something new. This happens to big sites too. Target redesign in 2011 resulted in less revenue + a myriad of technical problems. Remember Digg.com?

Conversion 124

Conversion Technical Review Design Framework 124