Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Is that when it became big? Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

That was 2005, and I have been with IFS ever since, growing the company and doing the things that I love, namely illustrating and designing cool concepts for the games industry. Share with us some of the journey that Imaginary Friends Studios has gone through since its founding in 2005.

Singapore 228

Singapore San Diego DC Design 228

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today. He made another mistake, investing in a web hosting company called Vision Web Hosting. He went on to lose about $1 million on the venture.

Software Review 212

Software Review Marketing PPC Hosting 212

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. Criteo – Provider of online ad retargeting services and personalized recommendation service. Leverages persistent cookie to follow a user and display recurring display advertising that matches a previous transaction intent or behavior.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2014

It was a 13-hour struggle to change her name after getting married in 2005 that prompted Danielle to leave her medical sales career to develop and launch MissNowMrs.com , a premier online name-change service created to simplify the name-change process for brides and newlyweds nationwide.

Software Review 216

Software Review Technical Review Naming Entrepreneur 216

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. The evidence is that immigrants don’t take jobs, they create them by the millions.

Technical Review 230

Technical Review Taiwan Silicon Valley Ireland 230

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. Put simply, more deals and fewer venture capitalists mean better access to deals, more stability for winners and great returns for the best in our industry. Money flowing into our industry has also massively downsized.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

This talk, given in 2005, explores how collaboration in business is changing, replacing closed groups with more open, fluid networks. In this talk, business expert Baba Shiv explains why having too many choices and too much power can be a bad thing, which may just encourage you to let other members of the team take over once in awhile.

Web 255

Web Employee Hosting Networking 255

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

In June of 2005 while on vacation with my wife, I received a call from my brother. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. We put our heads down, worked hard, and learned as we went. This rating put Safe Eyes on the map.

Software Review 188

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators.

Cap Table 283

Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Dilution 283

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

The hardware trend showed that internet connection speeds were increasing, and by 2005, the speed of the connection would be sufficient that we could reasonably stream video in real time without resorting to heroic amounts of video compression or miracles in internet protocols. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7 trillion in 2020 (U.S. Census), surpassing total expenditure of even the much sought after Millennial population. Advertisers, wake the f**k up. Census) who will represent 40% of the entire US workforce in just 5 years (Pew Research).

United States 269

United States North America South America Los Angeles 269

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. (Powered by LaunchBit ). Tweet. --> This is a guest post from Robert Graham — a solo bootstrapper who blogs about the experience. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google. Someday he’d like to work for himself.

Campaign 272

Campaign Software Review Brazil Conversion 272

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2020

Amazon raised the stakes back in 2005 when they offered two-day free shipping on eligible purchases. It’s digital transformation that helps you make sure that your prices, stock levels, product descriptions, special offers, and more are consistent across every channel. Instant gratification is a given.

Sales 227

Sales Social Media Channel Technical Review 227

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

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. Those with strong business models suddenly stand out when the tide goes out.

Saudi Arabia 309

Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Probably, cause we talk a lot about the roots of the Valley and the “Silicon&# culture ; and I often times find myself quouting the article that I stumbled upon when first moved to the Valley in 2005: “How Silicon Valley Came to Be&# [link] The history of the Valley ab ovo. Basically, everything you are talking about in your post.

Silicon Valley 302

Silicon Valley RSS San Francisco Technical Review 302

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. No Dave S. =

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2015

Energy-efficient commercial buildings fall under section 179D of the 2005 Energy Policy Act, and businesses could qualify for $1.80 Eligible buildings must have been constructed or retrofitted after 2005, and the organization must submit to a third-party energy tax study. deduction per square foot.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review San Antonio San Francisco Software Review 100

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

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2020

surging by 173 percent since 2005 before the pandemic struck. Major employers , including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon, all revealed that they would be embracing a work-from-home structure for those employees who are able to complete their jobs remotely. Benefits of the remote trend. Remote work is nothing new.

Employee 200

Employee Retention Leadership Cost 200

SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Assembla, founded in 2005 and acquired by Scaleworks in 2016, is a software as a service company that sells a platform that allows coders […]. Assembla, a software development platform based in San Antonio, has announced plans to acquire MyGet, a software management company, based in Belgium.

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San Antonio Belgium Coder Software Developers 77

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects. What if the company was supportive of skunkworks projects, ensuring that small passionate teams of employees didn’t have to expend so much energy fighting against organizational pushback?

Incubator 121

Incubator Cofounder Green Programming 121

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From 1981, when the IBM PC was introduced, until about 2005, one could expect a personal computer system to have a lifespan of 3-5 years. Older coders like me view this as a tax on software development time, but younger coders accept it as a given and seem to not only take it in stride but revel in their evolving expertise.

Technology 168

Technology Coder Social Media Semantic 168

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Michael Houlihan, coauthor of “ The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built a Bestseller “, started the Barefoot Wine brand with Bonnie Harvey in their laundry room in 1985, made it a nationwide bestseller, and successfully sold the brand to E&J Gallo in 2005.

Social Media 263

Social Media Technical Review Non-Compete Email 263

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Between 1991 and 2005, the capacity that could be bought with $100 went up by a factor of 11. The following year, twenty-two of twenty-three entrants in the 2005 Challenge surpassed the 7.3 The trend continues through to the present day. Of the fifteen competitors, not a single one could complete the course.

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Government Nevada Cost 183

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today. He made another mistake, investing in a web hosting company called Vision Web Hosting. He went on to lose about $1 million on the venture.

Marketing 113

Marketing PPC Software Review Hosting 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high. From listening to feedback after launch, it was clear that users wanted a chat experience on other websites too.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2018

The first accelerator, YC, was founded in 2005. The second, Techstars, was founded in 2006. Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators. Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem.

LP 106

LP Incubator Venture Capital Technical Review 106

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Looking at all vintages from 2005 to 2014, the top 5% TVPI is between 40% to 127% better than the top quartile TVPI. I’d bet the very best 1-2 funds probably perform meaningfully better than this threshold. What I find interesting is that the variation between the top 5% and the top quartile benchmarks is pretty wide.

LP 256

LP IRR Distribution Portfolio 256

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Since 2005 a second generation of active safety features have appeared. In the 1990’s computers capable of real-time analysis of wheel sensors (position and slip) made ABS (anti-lock braking systems) possible. This feature was finally required in 2013.

Technical Review 300

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 300

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Between 2005 and 2007, Starbucks aggressively opened new store locations and made several operational changes that diluted its customer value proposition, diluted its high employee engagement culture, violated its real estate site selection controls, and weakened its high value-added ‘experience’ business model.

Dilution 209

Dilution Virginia Management Washington 209

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

After it was purchased by Advance Auto Parts in 2005, he was free to focus on his main passions: philanthropy and giving back to the community, spending time with family and friends, and helping more people learn how to be happy.

Employee 248

Employee New Hampshire Massachusetts Dividend 248

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The Theory of Kirzner (1973-2005) about entrepreneurship explains how the improvement of economic health affects individuals in the first world. Entrepreneurship is the primary factor in the growth of economies. Each new business launched has an impact on an economy and affect people around it.

Developer 137

Developer Technical Review Equity Distribution 137

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Thinking Aloud Bonnie Harvey employee management Entrepreneurship leadership managing employees Michael Houlihan work culture'

Employee 208

Employee Leadership Technical Review Hiring 208