VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For the past 10 years, with interest rates near zero, VC investors plowed record amounts into tech startups and enjoyed a seemingly ‘easy’ investing environment. From a technology point of view, new tech tools like generative AI means that tasks can be accomplished with fewer resources and at a higher speed.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 15, 2011

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

Over time, innovations outside the company (demographic, cultural, new technologies, etc.) But most large companies find it hard to deal with disruptive innovation – radical shifts in technology, customers, regulatory changes, etc, that create new markets. F urther Reading : Harvard Business Review Articles.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 18, 2024

Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) is a creator, professional reviewer and bonafide influencer with millions of followers across social media channels (18.5M His reviews are honest, sometimes negative , and indeed, influential. Can a reviewer be critical without drawing fire? Are tech reviews ever really objective?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs. Despite its low price point (US$35), the Raspberry Pi offers impressive technical capabilities and has become popular among hobbyists, researchers, and commercial businesses. The Renault Logan.

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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. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. Want to start up in France?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Partially due to the economy, but also due to longer, healthier lives and changes in job tenure, Boomers are now expected to stay in the labor force longer, and according to a USNews article, will likely dominate the labor market by 2024. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. May 26, 2011.

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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). I learned how to establish a technology center in India and how to manage disparate development teams (and this has drive my thoughts also about what does NOT work.). I learned how to better run a product management process.

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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. This means that technical debt starts to increase. It is called “technical debt” for a reason—because technical debt, like financial debt, compounds.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it.

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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. year old boy and another one due in 1 months. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. We managed the business because we felt responsible since we raised money.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Enter Facebook. Is the game over?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. 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. And that was that.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Take a moment to review the requested permissions. There may also be privacy and physical security concerns if every photo and every video is uploaded prior to review by the device owner. In 2004 Don moved to threat research. Don is helping evolve research operations and research technology in line with the growth of Malware.

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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. But they may not be typically technology people, and certainly are not nerds. I hadn’t changed my leadership style, so what went wrong?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In addition to having my company acquired, I worked with them on the diligence team for a number of other acquisitions. Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old. The Feld Group grew rapidly during this time period until it was acquired in 2004 by EDS.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. But here comes the narrative violation: despite the challenges, Israeli tech continues to power on. Sophisticated investors and tech leaders are bullish on Israel But don’t take it from me.

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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.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. Think about it this way, if you have an idea and youre willing to give up half of your company to get a technical partner, consider the CTOs side of it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Needless to say that before you start and throughout the entire process, you should make sure that technological requirements are met. Due to keeping things generic, some stock images may look false and popular subjects become overused. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2017

With more and more businesses embracing the efficiency and accessibility of on-the-go technology and online transactions now being processed quicker than ever, it’s no surprise that these new technologies are also attracting potential security threats. by David Midgley, Head of Operations at Total Processing.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Of most interest is the story of Mr. Peter Thiel investing $500,000 into the company in 2004, at an effective valuation of $4.9 Thiel is part of the famous PayPal Mafia - former founders of PayPal and their friends that travel in the rarefied Silcon Valley air of next generation Internet ideas and technologies.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The evolution of technology brought smokers a different experience called ‘vaping’. The interest in vaping has increased exponentially in the past decade due to various factors worldwide. A 2017 report forecasts a global growth of the e-cigarette and vaporizer market by 20.8% until 2025, when it should be worth approximately $61.4

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Technical Review Forecast Startup United States 117

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. April 17, 2011.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

Hopefully you haven’t heard of them before… Jivy Group - a mini-conglomerate of companies founded in 2004. That’s according to a survey conducted by the Incubators Technology Forum. Technology. Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention. via TheMarker ). via theWadi ). Miscellanous.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

3- Due to financial difficulties in my family. I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. So I got to work and jumped in on starting my business, TTYL—a tech-free community. This makes all the stress worthwhile. I launched Alexx, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2018

The technology is there to help consumers get a much better feel for online products, make sure you use it. 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.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. In other words, there have been no multi-billion dollar valued tech companies founded in Boston in the last 13 years.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These companies can range from tech startups to food trucks to retail stores. approx 2004-09. Top performers conduct 40 hours or more of due diligence per investment and stick with companies as active advisors.[3]. Q: What is the typical profile of angel investors? Q: Why do people become angel investors?

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. HW: If you were just starting your career in tech, would SF still be where you chose to settle?

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 5, 2004

Fred Wilson has a great post about building a “customer-obsessed company” as opposed to a “technology-obsessed company.” ” This is good advice and reminds me of a number of companies built during the bubble period which were technology companies in search of a problem to solve. This is a common problem.

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