Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. round closed Feb 2005.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. We started getting feedback on the idea starting March 2009 (second semester) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Do you find yourself hiring operators or PMs with that background?

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Altgate

MARCH 3, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← The Real Reason Google May Fail Operating System for the Classroom Posted on March 3, 2011 by admin By now most people have heard of Sal Khan and the Khan Academy.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Despite their success, Startup America’s goal is to continue for three years, and then fold their operations and let the infrastructure they’ve created exist independently. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We’ve moved >$1b in resources from the corporate sector to nonprofits.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

 You probably have operating budgets for each department. ← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Comments are closed.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here.

Venture Capital 47

Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2011

That was the challenge faced by former real estate agent Alex Joseph, co-founder of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss Clinics, now a growing franchise operation based in Florida. “We That’s when the old vision clicked with the market’s desires, and Joseph opened up the first Nuviva Weight Loss Clinic in 2009.

Florida 205

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Law enforcement is a tough industry for outsiders to gain entry into for reasons of trust, liability and a lack of understanding for the why and how the profession operates. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency. I was Badge Number 1266. 9- After reading an inspiring story. Photo Credit: Jennifer Maggiore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 13, 2011

Design and Operate a Referral System – part 2 Posted by : John Jantsch on Jun 13, 2011 | 5:54 am Categories : AMEX OpenForum , Marketing Strategy Tags : AMEX OPEN , New York Times Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

Small Business 71

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 28, 2011

If a potential buyer can see how they too could operate your marketing system, even after you the owner is long gone, you’ll build value. Less dependent on you Done right, marketing builds the kind of repeatable momentum that can be documented and taught like a system. Buying a strong brand creates an entirely different set of math.

Marketing 64

Marketing Valuation Differentiation Lead Generation 64

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 26, 2011

link] Google Search Shortcuts – Google has a list of operators that you can use to do customer searches that will turn up lots of information on sites you are analyzing. link] SEOBook Toolbar – The SEOBook toolbar is a very robust tool that offers a full suite of stats right in your browser.

SEO 68

SEO Small Business Marketing Search 68

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. Surely not. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield at Not Quite Nigella , Nov.

Entrepreneur 231

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

► 2009. (36). Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. ► 2005. (1). Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration. ► December. (3). The Most Important Job of the CIO. What is Really Meant by Failing Early, Failing Oft. What Could Save Media Businesses. ► November. (3). No Scrum Master? No Problem.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. Perry’s request, the legislature created the TEF in 2003 and re-appropriated funding in 2005, 2007 and 2009 to help ensure the growth of Texas businesses and create more jobs throughout the state.

Austin 76

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate.

Naming 122

Naming Government Intellectual Property LLC 122

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 13, 2015

The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) was not a sparkle in anyone’s eye in 2005 when the former president of the University of Central Oklahoma, Roger Webb, and an unknown music promoter, Scott Booker met. Booker happened to be the manager of an OKC based rock band, The Flaming Lips. Scott Booker is CEO.

Oklahoma City 48

Oklahoma City Oklahoma Developer Nashville 48

Altgate

JANUARY 16, 2011

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Lorem Ipsum is Evil Operating System for the Classroom → The Real Reason Google May Fail Posted on January 16, 2011 by admin Recently I’ve been reading a lot of ink (er, liquid crystal?) Bookmark the permalink.

CPA 72

CPA Advertising Distribution Search 72

Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

He says: Our sales had grown steadily since 2005; by 2008 we were doing more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually — two years ahead of our original plan. This was in 2009. By early 2009, we were at a stalemate. Zappos continues to operate independently. Cash flow was very tight.

Silicon Valley 79

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Finance IPO 79

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Paperless billing for consumers.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Raul’s contribution to PetsMD as a member of our Advisory Board for the last year has been outstanding,” said Tina Cannon Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. PetsMD Inc., “His entrepreneurial online experience as Vice President with Travelocity has been invaluable in helping to sharpen PetsMD’s strategic focus.

Advisory Board 63

Advisory Board Merger LLC Europe 63

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Companies specializing in components and systems that operated in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum sprouted faster than fruit trees in the valley orchards. scott Reply Daily Links #54 | CloudKnow , on April 20, 2009 at 11:42 pm Said: [.] Steve Blank: The real story of Silicon Valley [.] Very informative.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

“And, oh by the way, can you write the manuals for the operators while you’re at it.&# As I poured over the system schematics, I figured out how to put together a course to teach system theory, operations and maintenance. Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The use of secure, computer-generated, time-stamped audit trails to independently record the date and time of operator entries. According to the FDA, between 2005-2009, sales reps from ev3 encouraged surgeons to use Onyx outside the brain in unproven and dangerous ways. Limiting access to authorized individuals.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Software Review Canada Startup 111

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. The question is why?

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The trick worked and the hyper-sophisticated AC system hummed into operation, but he was still challenged. I can talk about "discourse-based decision support system" til the cows come home, c/w references to cognitive ergonomics and "helmet fire". but there are plenty of folk who talk as well or better than I (see last weeks Web 2.0

NDA 52

NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

This would ultimately be the advantage Keith had, and still has, in running a smaller operation: relationships mean more to the owner and the customer. In the waste management sector, unemployment in 2009 and 2010 hit 10.5 and 11 percent , respectively—double what it was in 2008, and triple what it was in 2005.

Management 108

Management El Paso Oklahoma Las Vegas 108

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Out of the 12,500 founders of these firms, 181 (1.7%) die at some point between starting up the firm and the end of 2005 (Hvide 6). ► 2009. (7). Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. This leaves a relatively small sample. As you might guess, the results were inconclusive. Do you have a U.S.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

Altgate

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Posted on February 10, 2009 by fnazeeri I saw this story that’s making it’s way around the InterTubes that, if true, is probably the scariest thing I have ever seen. LiveLeak has the story. The Treasury opened up its window to help and pumped a $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Engineer Government Restful 28

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

" Barry Silbert, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, SecondMarket As the Founder and CEO, Barry Silbert is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and operation of all its markets. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0 Barry has been featured on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg News and Fox Business News.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Blockbuster introduced their “End of Late Fees” program on January 1, 2005. The name of the last part? published on Mar.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Campaign Video Naming 62

www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’ve been operating the business full time for 10 months now and only recently felt the need to move out of my basement. 1M Shashank says: November 2, 2009 at 6:12 am Hi Mike. You can also add me on skype: shashank.shalabh Mity na temat tworzenia udanego startupu | Polishwords Blog says: November 24, 2009 at 10:06 am [.]

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Startup Massachusetts 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Recent competitive financings closed by Gilt Groupe ($35mm in 05/2010), OKL (undisclosed value in 12/2009) and Ideeli ($20mm in 12/2009).

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) So, I don't know, I think there will be lots of inquiries just like there were in 2008 and 2009. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22)

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