Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

FourSquare obviously brings up a lot of interesting commercial opportunities. Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities: Sprout Social, CoTweet, awe.sm, LocalResponse. We know that Twitter is leading to customer service opportunities for businesses but the opposite is also true. They’re based in London.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

I have experienced two major financial disruptions in my career: the bubble burst in 2000 and the financial crisis of 2008. Markets have reacted, and valuation multiples for both public and private companies have been heavily compromised, leaving growth investors in fear of losing the opportunity to secure targeted returns.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Laura Lorek has lived in the Austin area since 2000, where she's been writing about established companies like Dell, NI, IBM, Apple, Oracle, Google, Meta and tech startups like Opcity, now Realtor.com, Homeaway, now VRBO, RetailMeNot, Indeed.com, Homeward, OJO Labs and others. Laura Lorek. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Austin got hit hard.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities. Nor is distributed computing a new concept: it’s the basis of a lot of peer-to-peer architectures such as those devised early on by the likes of BitTorrent, and it’s equally something that has been taken up by the blockchain community.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

are responsible for 44% of the country’s GDP, roughly half of its employment opportunities, and over $180 billion in annual technology spending. According to McKinsey & Company , the more than 30 million small businesses in the U.S. Focused on multi-stage, sector-focused investments, GGV manages $9.2 billion in investments across the U.S.,

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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. Since the infrastructure spending bill included $110 billion for more than 4,300 projects, “for investors, it’s an incredible opportunity to back the next wave of innovation.”.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Access Optics was co-founded in 2000 by Bob and Pam Hogrefe and today employs 37 people at its 20,000 square foot headquarters in Broken Arrow. Together, these set the stage for entrepreneurial opportunity”. It’s such a strong tech opportunity coming out of Oklahoma, and we partnered with predominantly Oklahoma funds to fund it.”.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2018

All the more reason to start your entrepreneurial journey by investing your time, not your money, on a smaller or less risky opportunity that you can manage right now. Hmmm – good thing the world’s dreamers, inventors, makers and entrepreneurs didn’t start using this excuse 2, 20, 200 or 2000 years ago then!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

I was in college from 2000 to 2004. However, recognizing that the common thread between all of the players in the game is the desire to be part of the brilliant business opportunity at hand is what will ultimately prevail. A lot of great companies were started at elite schools during that period.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

“Not only are these groups coming back to market faster, they are often raising bigger funds or additional vehicles, like opportunity funds.” We’ll note here that Khosla Ventures , SoftBank and Better Tomorrow Ventures all raised an opportunity fund this year.). That’s new.”. We want to have as many LPs as we can,” Sayani added.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. NEW EMERGING MARKETPLACES.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

FFI Ionix is part of Fortescue, a company that ranks 414th on the Forbes Global 2000 list, but its origins were founded in Delaware as Xergy. This is what the Graduated Lab Space Grants and Strategic Fund are for: keeping and growing innovative companies here in the First State.” Christiansen.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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. Cisco in 2000 was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. There’s so many opportunities at this intersection of AI/ML and biology and medicine.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

All VCs, including us, regularly see investment opportunities which don’t fit our mandate. Certain late-stage VCs have invested in some of my past funds, partly to motivate us to refer future investment opportunities to them. Our goal is to invest in, coinvest with, and/or recruit founders in transition. Monetizing our deal flow.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

The benefits of building a diverse startup team are overwhelming; from increased creativity and faster problem solving, to a greater diversity of thought opening up new market opportunities and more revenue streams, to better understanding the customer base and building better products… the list goes on.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 24, 2015

Since 2000, the speed of broadband has increased more than tenfold, cloud computing and the cost of storage has become affordable to even the most nascent enterprise and the reach of mobile computing devices now puts nearly six billion consumers just a click away. Never has that statement been truer or the opportunities for startups greater.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. Large hedge funds over time hit liquidity limits and start impacting market pricing when they trade, losing their ability to exploit arbitrage opportunities. The HFRI Index returned 18.3% annually over the last twenty years.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. It took the NASDAQ fifteen years to get back to it''s March 2000 peak--and I think that it''s possible we''re looking ahead at the same kind of period, but one without the huge trough. They''ll be around 10 years from now.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

When Opportunity Knocks, Scrutinize It. Everyone loves opportunity. That’s why every time an opportunity arises, I ask myself a list of specific questions in order to fully think through it. Will this opportunity make us better? Are you missing out on opportunities to increase your average order value (AOV)?

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Money poured into a business that takes off provides job opportunities and helps the economy grow while investors recoup their money and make a profit too. Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. The global impact ecosystem is starting to take shape.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. But because of the scale of the opportunity that we saw ahead of us with Valo, we actually started out by bringing in external financing partners as part of a Series A that was right around $100 million.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 12, 2021

When we were asked to join and collaborate with 39 global (impact) organizations to launch the World Economic Forum COVID-19 Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs , we immediately saw this as an opportunity to shape the new economy with exciting partners. What is this Alliance all about?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. Meaning that, the way we dispatch people, we dispatch the best opportunity… You put Tom Brady in, during the Super Bowl. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times. Then I built that into a four-year plan, kind of hockey-sticked it. How about that?

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

No, we are not going back to the future As we ride the 2021 market roller coaster through wreckage and recovery, accompanied by a raging bull market in tech stocks, some people are wondering whether we might be re-living the dreadful dot-com boom and bust of 2000-2001. Is 2021 the new 2000? Are we heading for another bottomless crash?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 6, 2020

Some of us remember the 2000 dot-com crash. For entrepreneurs, the job now is to look past that daunting torrent and to the opportunity beyond it. Because there is opportunity. That’s unprecedented in Rustand’s life, too. You’ve probably never felt anything like this,” Rustand says. Others recall the 2008 financial crisis.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. As podcasts continue to gain market share, Gumball’s self-serve ad marketplace has the opportunity to be as transformative to the podcast industry as Google Adwords was for web ads. .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. But while the price points are dramatically lower this often encourages more users, more innovation in the eco-system and therefore often a bigger market opportunity than even the incumbents perceived. Enter Salesforce.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. It is also a good opportunity for CEO’s to mingle with VC’s who might lead future rounds of fundraising. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. Potentially limits acquisition opportunities for independent ad networks. -Customers Include: Reuters, Associated Press, , Dow Jones, Ask.com , healthcare companies, and major investment banks and hedge funds. Competitors: InformationBuilders , DataWatch. Current round: $5.25mm in Series A from.406

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social Chaos Will Create New Business Opportunities. We know that Twitter is leading to customer service opportunities for businesses but the opposite is also true. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company uses a tough market as an opportunity to break away from the pack and outrun its competitors. Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. So which is it? and the U.K.,

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Its 2,000+ members have invested over $1 billion in 2.400+ companies since its founding in 2000. Keiretsu Forum’s expansion would open opportunities to investors and entrepreneurs in Texas looking for great deal flow.” Keiretsu Forum was founded in 2000 by Randy Williams. Keiretsu Forum boasts 50+ chapters on 4 continents.

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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. Web3 is now giving them the opportunity to own their creations and get a fair share of the profits, and I think that’s something you don’t want to miss.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The considerations below will be useful for companies trying to understand the opportunities to protect their innovation. In 2000, the U.S. Artificial intelligence innovations are patentable. AI software is patentable, and applicants are seeking protection at a remarkable rate.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2021

The dot-com bubble in 2000 ravaged many of the winners in the 80s and 90s, including Julian Robertson’s Tiger Global, another major global macro investor on par with Soros' Quantum Fund. However, it sparked a new wave of quantitative investing.

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