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MAY 30, 2025

5 (2000+ reviews) Klaviyo E-commerce businesses Deep e-commerce integrations and segmentation Free (paid from $45/month) 4.6/5 5 (2000+ reviews) Brevo offers an attractive alternative to Constant Contact with its unique pricing model based on email volume rather than contact list size.

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MAY 30, 2025

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 30, 2025

5 (2000+ reviews) Klaviyo E-commerce businesses Deep e-commerce integration and predictive analytics Free (paid from $45/month) 4.6/5 Comprehensive Marketing Hub — Access website building, landing pages, social media management, and digital ad campaigns from a single platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

venture capital

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Spawning of Micro VCs.

venture capital

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. They help speed up the network by pushing the highly viewed and large media files to the “edge&# of the network (e.g. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.).

venture capital

Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Sparked by a pair of scissors, some pantyhose and a party where founder, Sara Blakely , wanted to look her best, Spanx officially began production in 2000 and changed women’s fashion and fit forever. A pop culture hobby transformed into Lisa Sugar ’s sensationally popular media company, POPSUGAR. Sara Blakely / Spanx.

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StartupNation

JULY 19, 2021

Generation Y (1981-2000) = 35%. Like millennials, they favor digital communications with an emphasis on social media. Supporting multigenerational workforces. Breakdown of workforce by generation : Traditionalists (1925-1945) = 2%. Baby boomers (1946- 1964) = 25%. Generation X (1965-1980) = 33%. Generation Z (2001-2020) = 5%.

culture

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Products like awe.sm (I’m an investor) will help you manage the efficacy of your social media marketing campaigns. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet. These days people would sooner fear Apple than Microsoft, proving that reality is stranger than fiction.

networking

StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. The reality is that non-white startup founders not only exist but are extremely successful and should be highlighted more in the media, in the movies, in books and podcasts to share their success stories.

innovation

TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The company found early traction with games companies, whose heavy use of media required lots of code processing; longer-term, other companies that deal with graphics, AR, VR, artificial intelligence and other work-intensive loads came to the company as well.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

Founded in 2000 with roots in Singapore and Silicon Valley, GGV has backed more than 500 companies, including Affirm, Airbnb, Alibaba, BigCommerce, Boss Zhipin, Bowery Farming, Brightwheel, Drata, Electric, Grab, HashiCorp, Homebase, Keep, Odeko, Opendoor Technologies, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Slice, Square, StockX, Wish, XPeng, Zendesk, and more.

venture capital

TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Before Karl Alomar became managing partner of VC firm M13, he led one company through the dot-com bust of 2000 and helped another survive the Great Recession of 2008. Investors are turning to social media as they widen the top of their talent funnel, reports Dominic-Madori Davis. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Founder Bounty

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Oprah Effect In 2000, a major turning point came when Oprah Winfrey named Spanx her “Favorite Thing” of the year. Building an Empire With growing sales and media coverage, Spanx expanded its product line to include leggings, bras, and maternity wear.

entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising. That’s new.”. As for pacing throughout the rest of 2022, stay tuned, suggested both Lerner and Clarkson.

venture capital

Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

With 7 billion people on the planet today, there are more than 6 billion mobile subscriptions, up from just 720 million in 2000. The true value to us will be in analyzing unstructured data, estimated to be 80% of all data stored, from blogs, social media, pictures and video.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2022

There’s a lot of hard work involved but if you follow the steps I outline below, you’ll be well on your way to establishing yourself as someone people, media and companies gravitate toward for advice. I paid $2000 for an online course to teach me how to build a passive income business. My friends and family thought I’d gone mad.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Users will be able to interact with multimodal models the way they interact with the rest of the world: through images, text, voice, and other media. Right now, it’s a bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything, and the most important thing is whoever can build the best router. So, who has the largest LLM?

development

David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. Accel brings more than three decades of experience backing companies including Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Baby Einstein grew revenues from $1 million in 1998 to over $10 million just a few years later in 2000. The reality is that non-white startup founders not only exist but are extremely successful and should be highlighted more in the media, in the movies, in books and podcasts to share their success stories.

innovation

WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

As a serial entrepreneur in the digital media space, I remember the day 15 years ago when Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched Napster — I knew all the music startups of that era were instantaneously made irrelevant. The sword of innovation that you skillfully yielded in your battle to breakthrough turns out to be double-edged.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

Then the business developed, then I moved into a thousand square feet and then that outgrew, and then I moved into 2000 square feet, which is my max. The website is thegigglingpig.com and from that page on the Giggling Pig, you can find every social media outlet. I don’t want to get bigger than this in one location.

creativity

Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. Every single job applicant forum, every single meeting, every single… You know they’ve got job fairs, you should be on all social media, you should turn your internal team into recruiters. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times.

leadership

OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Co-Founder and CEO Noam Levavi previously co-founded and led YCD Multimedia, a digital media provider helping some of the world’s biggest brands deliver personalized content to their customers. Is 2021 the new 2000? Moderated by: David Suissa, President of Tribe Media and veteran journalist covering the Israeli tech scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. I am reminded about how dismissive traditionally television media is about YouTube – even to this day. Enter Salesforce.com.

incumbents

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

By the way, I didn't add social media as a tip because, if you're reading this blog, you probably already use it. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. and if you don't understand the value of Twitter, blogging, etc. 1) Be Discerning.

networking

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Podcasts have emerged as a major new category in media/entertainment/news/education etc. Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000.

networking

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They’ve worked with a few small companies like Zynga, Playdom, GroupOn and TopSpin Media. They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. as well as what drove the success of the campaigns. All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content.

mix-use

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

-Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Independents: Millennial Media , Greystripe , Medialets , JumpTap , Mojiva. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

In the media NYC is “hot” right now yet having just spent 6 days in NY I heard many similar stories as I get in LA: not enough VC and hard to get great tech resources. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. I’m looking at how the digital living room will change media consumption. When the masses start all running one way without questioning “why?&# – and when it defies any logic I can figure out in my head – I call bullshit.

angel investing

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. OTHER DEALS. Users participate by performing tasks, taking surveys or watching advertiser videos. Joe Marchese and Willan Johnson are President and COO, respectively.

VC

TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Gen Z VCs have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality. Sure, most of us grew up in an age of technology, but we didn’t all grow up in an age of social media. Most importantly, though, I got my first social media account on the day I turned 13. Myself included. Good for them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Founded in 2000 by Russian-American entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov, Redwood City-based Evernote made handwriting recognition software for Windows and the eponymous note-taking, web-clipping app Evernote, which stored notes on an “infinite roll of paper.” This proved to be a winning strategy — at least at first.

leadership

AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Brown is also highly regarded in his field with his 20 years of experience in payments and banking, including the role of CEO of eBucks.com, a world-first bank-backed digital currency created in 2000. In the early part of 2022, Brown was also appointed Chairman of the BSV blockchain’s Technical Standards Committee.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

. “Look at what happened from 1995 to 2000 on the ‘internet’ and use that history lesson to deploy how much will be ‘fixed’ in web3 over the next half decade. Fifteen years ago, no one believed that the world would be full of social media creators and artists.

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