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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I once paid a reputable social media agency thousands of dollars a month to “warm up my target market for when my product launches.” Mike started working at Vector Marketing in 2000 as a student at Boston College. A different mentor said it best: “You can control the result or you can control the journey, but you can’t control both.”.

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

Garnishing media attention since before 2012, the JOBS Act's Title III is among the most important landmarks in the history of modern crowdsourcing. The SEC seems quite okay with postponing finalization until October 2015. Better late than never: an October implementation would be over 600 days since Congress's initial deadline. million.

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Feedough

JANUARY 3, 2021

User behaviour and media consumption has taken an entirely different route, thanks to the internet. Precisely, digital advertising is any form of advertising that appears online or on digital channels like websites, search engines, social media platforms, mobile apps, digital OOH, and other channels that can be accessed digitally.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Shopware competitors now include the likes of Shopify Plus, Magento and others building a mixture of headless and other components, which brands and others can mix and match to power online shopping experiences, be they via their own websites, via mobile apps or by way of third-party platforms like social media sites or marketplaces.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019. It made sense because a common playbook for consumer-facing startups was to build the product, prove PMF, raise capital from investors, and then deploy some/much/most of that capital in paid media to grow quickly.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Based on his time leading startups through the dot-com implosion in 2000 and the 2008 Great Recession, Alomar says it’s critical for founders to be strategic and not reactive. When it’s okay to leave money on the table. What you need to do differently to fundraise during a downturn. The news also gave Canoo a nice bump to its share price.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

If it sounds odd that a Series B would be so much smaller than the Series A, that’s in part because that previous round was a mix of debt and equity: the company had raised very little since being founded in 2000 and was profitable. That is driving a market for more software automation, to take out some of the busy work.

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OkDork

JANUARY 27, 2023

Business Idea #2: Content Remixing With so many social media platforms nowadays, this service is going to get even MORE popular. We're paying him $2000/month which is well worth it for me. Now, some of these clips are getting MILLIONS of views without me or any of my team having to do extra work. And guess what?!

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 17, 2022

Since 2000, homeownership has been in decline in Indonesia by 2% each year, and 70 million millennials are the most impacted segment with 70% unable to afford their own home. The post Indonesian proptech startup Tanaku secures more than $5m in fresh capital first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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