YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

Benitez has been involved in social media since 2004, and interestingly enough has met the famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who are most famous for alleging that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg stole their social networking idea from them. What Could Have Been.

Social Media 187

Social Media Media Management Application Development 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products.

Japan 305

Japan Customer Development Developer Customer 305

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004. While it didn’t make me cynical, I calibrated my filters as I slogged through three more very long years between 2004 and 2007.

Technical Review 155

Technical Review Angel Investor Partner Database 155

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. I felt like I had survived The Great Depression and I never wanted to go there again.

Warrant 333

Warrant Germany France Cost 333

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Good when you’re testing and trying to learn the initial findings – is this a real business/good investor business, concept, replicable model but when you do let it go and GET BIG FAST.

Acquisition 304

Acquisition Warrant Customer Term Sheet 304

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

Founder 329

Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.”

Agile 134

Agile Software Developers Software Development Architecture 134

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. So we ( Blank , Reis , Osterwalder ) built the tools and created a new language for innovation and modern entrepreneurship.

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

“ Loveworks ” builds on that premise, and looks at how various marketing concepts – some of which, like virality, have become the epitome of hype – are exemplified through these marketing examples as executed by Saatchi & Saatchi across the world in various categories for different clients.

Technical Review 159

Technical Review Afghanistan Iraq Brazil 159

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. Think John Kerry and the “swift boat&# scandal. Whatever your political view we can all agree that John Kerry is a terrible communicator.

PR 329

PR Management Startup Vietnam 329

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. “My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

In 2004-2005, I found out we were recruiting thousands of people I started to realize that many of these people who are coming in, those born after 1985 – they are behaving differently. I hadn’t changed my leadership style, so what went wrong?

Leadership 206

Leadership Social Media Global Technical Review 206

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5% IRR (on average) over a 15-year horizon, Venture continues to outperform other long-term asset classes.

Venture Capital 215

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Evaluating the M&A landscape: other companies being purchased and what big companies were making acquisition decisions. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time. At the time, Quigo was already starting to do well. It was gaining traction in the marketplace.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. In every one of the last 15 years, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 have had a higher rate of entrepreneurial growth than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. These trends seem likely to persist.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Entrepreneur SBA United States 120

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The Renault Logan , released in 2004, is a prime example of frugal innovation. As more companies and organizations invest in mobile banking technology, it has the potential to make a significant impact on global financial inclusion. The Renault Logan. The Dacia Logan – By JanekJankowski – Thank you!

Startup 198

Startup Technical Review Ghana Guerilla 198

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Get to know who your customers are, speak their language and don’t forget to listen. Photo credit: www.kozinets.net].

Social Media 231

Social Media Media Stock Clickthrough 231

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In 2004 Don moved to threat research. From 1996 to 2000 Don learned the art of Penetration Testing while consulting for both Ernst & Young and Deloitte and later took a position with one of the first Managed Security Services Providers, Counterpane Internet Security.

Security 160

Security Mobile Software Review Technical Review 160

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2017

Prior to this, he spent nine years working for HSBC from 2004 and also spent two and a half years at Axcess Merchant Services before taking up his current role at Total Processing in February 2016. If you have to, run them through email scanning software beforehand. David Midgley is Head of Operations at Total Processing.

Security 124

Security Software Review Technical Review Social Media 124

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 122

Technical Review Forecast Startup United States 122

deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2011

Tom Malone of MIT wrote the seminal book The Future of Work in 2004. When I interviewed him for my book about ways work has changed in the years since, he honed in on the phenomenon of communities and.

Community 362

Community 362

Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003.

Vermont 166

Vermont Startup Campaign Virginia 166

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Back in 2004 when Eric and his IMVU co-founder Will Harvey approached me about investing in IMVU, I agreed on one condition – they had to take my Customer Development class at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Taking My Class.

Lean 120

Lean Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder Channel 120

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. Since then, this journey has taken me straight into the heart of the DevOps movement.

Phoenix 176

Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 176

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Software Engineering Agile 167

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

The PCI DSS has existed since 2004 and is designed to secure debit and credit transactions against the threat of cyber-fraud and data breaches, employing a range of measures to do so. User-generated content.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Demand Social Media Mobile 113

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. It also provides support and guidance well beyond that phase. A startup can be designated a Jeune Entreprise Innovante (Innovative Young Enterprise). To qualify, your project has to have an R&D element.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Feld Group grew rapidly during this time period until it was acquired in 2004 by EDS. While I was now investor / partner / board member, the intellectual and emotional intimacy of our relationship increased.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Boston Internet Venture Capital 150

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). I asked around and colleagues had the same problem with no real solution. So, I decided to build the solution myself.

Entrepreneur 148

Entrepreneur LLC Technical Review Finder 148

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Enter Facebook.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. Freelancing can be everything you imagined once you cut the intangible costs. Still running today, Exposure Manager has 6,000 users including the Elvis Presley Foundation and Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.

Cost 100

Cost San Francisco Software Review Technical Review 100

Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. The teams out of top engineering schools like Stanford, CMU, MIT, Virginia Tech, and others that competed in the DARPA Challenges in 2004 / 2005 / 2007 now make up the backbone of the R&D teams for most of the commercial efforts in this space.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. Loyalty experts will swear this is not true, and will use complex models to demonstrate ROI of their systems.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150