Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. True story.) The expectations of our company having raised $16.5

startup founder

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

health

Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

There exists a universe of projects that are category leaders in the substrate that will allow the faithful to construct an entirely new decentralised financial system. It has been around since the 2000 dot.com bubble and has traded at some pretty astronomical P/E ratios. 99% from their late 2021 all-time highs.

culture

Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Jeff Bezos wrote this to start his annual shareholder letter in the year 2000. Throughout those 15 years, Amazon constructed a monolith heavier and more valuable than almost every other business in the world, despite the vacillations on Wall Street. But he might have written it today. Amazon stock reached an all time high of $5.33

construction

Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 23, 2021

While doing so, we had researched the residential construction industry because home automation was gaining momentum and represented a much greater market. The even bigger issue to making home automation ubiquitous is cost: Since 2000, the cost of homes has outpaced household income in all but the years 2007–2012.

sustainability

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million. We had a $40 million round lined up to close in the Autumn of 2000. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

My competitors from those days STILL love to talk about how much money we raised in February 2000 (get over it already!). The largest Germany construction firms announced that they were going to launch their own initiative and therefore not use 3rd-party vendors. I acknowledge it was a mistake. We were hot. Until we weren’t.

peer-to-peer

Y Combinator

AUGUST 15, 2022

Last week, Gusto announced they have dozens of new partners across verticals like laundromats, health & beauty, and construction building with Gusto Embedded. Since 2000 an entire generation of business owners had to learn to trust online financial services. 17:00 - Most startups find it hard to tackle the SMB market.

founder

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We already know how to build plants and safely operate reactors; we just need to get better at reducing construction hurdles and executing on new reactor deployment. Our nuclear rollout peaked in the 1970s during the oil crisis—President Nixon championed “ Project Independence ,” which aimed to build 1,000 nuclear reactors by 2000.

construction

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 1973, President Richard Nixon called for Project Independence, the construction of 1,000 nuclear power plants by the year 2000, to achieve complete US energy independence. Now, in addition, it is a God-given instrument to do the constructive work of mankind.” Murray was right too. We should build that as well.

energy

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street. They want everything yesterday.

support

TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

“We grew from 240 cameras deployed at 34 locations by a few early users before June 2020, to 2000 cameras deployed at 320 locations for over 100 clients now, and expect to grow to 5000 cameras by end this year,” he wrote in an email to TechCrunch. million Series A round in early 2021. Image Credits: LiLz.

construction

StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A representation of the steady growth of e-commerce from 2000 to 2020 with a large increase toward the end thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thinking about the consumer and what they need and the types of things they would look for will help construct a better, well-thought-out website tailored to the users’ needs. .

frameworks