TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint. And the past few weeks of geopolitical challenges only added to the bleak scenario.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability. And the numbers were staggering. Microsoft paid $9.00 per registered user for Hotmail. AOL paid $40.00 Did the eyeballs suddenly disappear?

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StartupNation

MARCH 30, 2021

Like determination, your passionate desire to “make a dent in the universe” can sustain you through a startup’s inevitable struggles. So, I wrote to a number of my former students who’d launched ventures during 1999 and 2000—almost all of which failed when nuclear winter set in. Bring the heat!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

2008 and 2000), not only have we seen outstanding companies being formed, we’ve also witnessed great venture firm performance during these windows,” he said. Grow in a way that’s smart and sustainable for the long run,” advises Michael Sidgmore, a partner at Broadhaven Ventures. “We There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 28, 2016

We didn’t have enough cash flow to keep the staff and sustain the cost of running the business, so we were forced to close. One of the hardest times in my life was in 1999/2000, when I was transitioning from my family business to establishing Palam Mesra, a niche residential property development company I started with Stephen.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Managing Consultant for IBM Global Services, where he guided Global-2000 accounts on SEC electronic records compliance, leading to two publications for IBM Redbooks. So Blockperfect was founded to these entrepreneurs the resources and guidance to build sustainable revenue-first companies they can grow as large as they choose.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

Many traditional biotech investors are still looking for the controlling legal terms that went out of vogue in tech in the early 2000’s. If this plays out the way it did in 2005, we’ll see an explosion in the funding options for biotech companies.

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propel(x)

JULY 11, 2022

Because of the time and investment needed to bring deep tech solutions to market, many startups require significant and sustained capital to get up and running. Blue Origin, which was founded in 2000, has sent 25 nonprofessionals on suborbital space tourism flights. Startups raised $342.2 billion in venture capital in 2021 and $70.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2000 for her breakthrough work in circuit design automation. “Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, where her climate tech investments span mobility, food and agriculture, clean energy, sustainable apparel and carbon markets. Mar received her Ph.D.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability. Revenue models became more important a measure than traffic, although market share was and still is an over-weighted part of the value of any Internet-based entity.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 10, 2016

And the goal of a subscription businesses is more than to acquire those streams, but to nurture and sustain them. 28 + 500)/2000 = 2.0. In other words, to sustain a recurring gross profit dollar, this business must invest $2 each year. The payback period is 5 months, sales efficiency is 2, which are great, but the LTV/CAC is 1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Case in point, in the last five years, of the 2000+ healthcare startups in India and Southeast Asia, less than 10% reached the venture growth stage and less than 20% of the total capital invested in the region has been invested in venture growth,” he said. Hence, we see a clear opportunity to invest in an undercapitalized stage and region.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Government back in 2000, designed to entice businesses to invest in innovation. To drive forward the sustainable transition, specific tax incentives must be considered around green R&D. ‘R&D-intensive’ The R&D Tax Credit scheme was first introduced by the U.K. could be a world leader at.

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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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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

At the outset, Ariba sustained very high gross margins, in the low 80 percent range. After the company successfully completed its IPO, the company would increase its annual sales and marketing budget by 6X year-over-year to $230M and $298M in 2000 and 2001, at precisely the wrong time. The market would correct shortly thereafter.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 6, 2015

WebEx went public in June 2000 with $8.3M To achieve that phenomenal growth in 2000, the company ramped their sales and marketing investment from $2M to $9.3M to $50M from 1998 to 2000, representing an astounding 300%+ of revenue. and finally, six months before IPO to WebEx. in revenue over the previous twelve months.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 14, 2019

The decline doesn’t seem to be letting up in 2019, with retailers shutting down 23% more stores than they did at the start of last year (2000+ store closings), according to Coresight Research. Sustainability and Transparency. Technology is the key to the transition to sustainability.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” First, the sheer intensity of the competition for effective AdWord inventory reduces the likelihood of a sustainably high ROI. Second, ad spending does not provide leverage.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

By sharing their journeys, our goal is to boost awareness and promote the adoption of a circular economy in Armenia, catalysing a transformative shift toward sustainability. Since the inception of his venture, he has reinvested £2000 pounds into the cause and continues to see growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. As long as there is more demand than supply, and investors can generate “reasonable” returns, prices will be sustained or will increase. Our internal analysis shows that only 2% of IT budgets are spent on cloud today.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. To sustain these growth rates and reach the levels of market liquidity they have, startups like Uber and AirBnB require massive amounts of cash. More money raised for less dilution.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The recovery following the Internet bubble collapse of 2000 similarly took three years. The investor exit calculus increasingly includes expectations about exit sustainability. A return to higher valuations is usually triggered by a stronger IPO market. When will today’s moribund IPO market recover? We Warned You!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Whether the team chooses to reboot or revive Vine, they must answer questions about sustaining a business in the world the app abandoned in 2016. I’m indebted to Joel Spolsky for his April 2000 article on the subject. It might be ambitious to think that you can go from zero to a world-class social media site in a matter of months.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When I realized that it wasn’t going to be easy, if at all possible, to raise our Series B round of funding, I had to realign several team members around a very different kind of culture— one focused on building a profitable, sustainable business rather than a unicorn. This is especially important when it comes to making difficult decisions.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2015

In part, this could be due to the fact that the GPL license predates the Apache license by 10 years, (1989 vs 2000). Ultimately, the key drivers of success for startups commercializing open source projects will likely live in their ability to create defensible and sustainable business models in some fashion on free software.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Founded in 2000 by Vikas Jain, Rahul Sharma, Sumit Kumar Arora and Rajesh Agarwal, Micromax first started life as a small IT firm, making its first move into phones only in 2008. “The profits were not to the extent that we could sustain and move to the next level as far as the branding is concerned.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In that post, I argued that the venture capital business could not sustain more than $20bn a year of new capital coming into it and continue to produce good returns to the investors in VC funds. link] — Ben Siscovick (@bsiscovick) February 26, 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

At the height of the dot.com boom in the first quarter of 2000, the bank had invested in a record 53 startups. In Q2 of 2000, that number dipped slightly to 46. The company keeps track of carbon footprints through a partnership with Sustainability-as-a-Service company ecolytiq. And of course, by Q3, it had plunged to just 13.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Commenting in a statement, Will Wolf of Polychain Capital, said: “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym team to further their mission of bringing robust, sustainable and permissionless privacy infrastructure to all Internet users.

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A Smart Bear

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Addressing those risks head-on, is required for a healthy and sustainable business that can last for many years. For example, there are advanced marketing techniques that would never make sense with a smaller company, that are fascinating, challenging, and impactful to the top line at a larger company.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. I’ve been through COVID, I’ve been through 2008, the housing crisis, we are sustainable, we’re what you call an essential home business, and I didn’t deem that on myself. So, what I did is I wrote down, Grant Cardone 10 times. You started Infusionsoft.

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OurCrowd

JULY 17, 2019

Between 2000 and 2015, for example, spending on education in the US grew 15%, but test scores have been stagnating. Problems like these are supposed to be dealt with by governments and state institutions — but despite tons of money thrown at issues like poverty, education and health, the problems persist and even worsen.

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 16, 2023

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Is it sustainable? As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Create a sustained campaign. Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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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. We have the silver bullet for virtually unlimited zero-emissions energy today – nuclear fission.

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