This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. Say what you will about either company, they got up to huge userbases and had audaciously big aspirations.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

And I’m sure everyone remembers the video that put them on the map – the one I first saw – which was the Bush/Kerry video This Land is Your Land (“you have more waffles than a house of pancakes), which was part of the 2004 elections and both candidates were asked about while they were campaigning.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. Good when you’re testing and trying to learn the initial findings – is this a real business/good investor business, concept, replicable model but when you do let it go and GET BIG FAST.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. -Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B. Total raised: $22mm. See: TechCrunch. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. Case in point, Procore just went public and is trading at an $11 billion valuation. Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I took money with a 3x participating preferred liquidation preference with 8% compounded interest annually. Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He joined EO in 2004. In addition to introducing sustainability to the industry, his efforts in refurbishing ATMs to extend their service life helps lower the costs of banking for corporations as well as citizens. This #EOImpact story is a true win-win-win! James Kilkelly is a member of the EO Atlanta chapter.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In our 2004 fund it was five companies, but that is why that fund was so good. We know that venture investments result in a power-law distribution of outcomes. And so one or two companies will determine the returns in a given fund. Sometimes that is not the case.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. Intermix was in a turnaround situation when I arrived in mid-2004, having been delisted from Nasdaq and nearly bankrupt.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. I felt like I had survived The Great Depression and I never wanted to go there again.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

Even after the worst period for VC in history—VC funds were back to market in 2004, no more than four years after the crash, right in line with the historical pace to get back at the game of investing. VCs need to invest to make their returns—and eventually, they’ll want to raise the next fund to layer more fees upon more fees.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. Menlo Park-based Structural Capital among other institutions that also joined in the strategic round totaling $35 million. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire.

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Dream It

APRIL 29, 2019

The study looked at 316,244 women whose health insurance switched from a low-deductible plan to a high-deductible plan between 2004 and 2014. An article in NPR describes a recent study that linked high-deductible health plans to delayed diagnosis and treatment. months longer for diagnostic breast imaging, 2.7 months for first biopsy, 6.6

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Acquired by Amazon for $110m. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008. TechCrunch. Acquired by Disney, who also invested in Playdom, and will become part of the Interactive Media Group.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 19, 2022

Just as important, though, Amazon managed their finances well. Net Income, $m. Cash & ST Equivalents, $m. Before the dotcom crash, Amazon grew at 68% and lost -$1.4b in net income.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Individual investors also contributed to the funding, including Five9 executive vice president Anand Chandrasekaran; Airtel chief executive of enterprise business Ganesh Lakshminarayanan; Vinod Muthukrishnan, the chief growth officer of Cisco’s Contact Center Business Unit; Venkat Tadanki, who sold his former startup Daksh to IBM in 2004; and Capillary (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. Evaluating the M&A landscape: other companies being purchased and what big companies were making acquisition decisions. Judged his instincts, and felt it was Quigo’s time. At the time, Quigo was already starting to do well. It was gaining traction in the marketplace.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

These investors can also be hesitant to bet on emerging managers, whom they may perceive as higher risk than established investors, even though Cambridge Associates data shows emerging firms made up 72% of the top returning firms between 2004 and 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

In 2004, Samuel co-founded Crackle, an internet video platform acquired by Sony for $65 million in 2006. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. Freestyle led the seed rounds in Airtable, Patreon, BetterUp, Narvar and Snapdocs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2017

I have been an EO member since 2004. Supporting the dreams of the doers also drives Netsurit’s approach to understanding client business goals. Once the deeper dreams and goals of our customers are clear, we can work together to meet those objectives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2017

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. But with evidence that each additional year of secondary schooling increases a student’s future income by 10-20%, providing better access to middle schools is key to creating a lasting impact.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 25, 2023

VNG, established in 2004 and acclaimed as Vietnam’s pioneer tech unicorn, has experienced remarkable growth since its inception. With founder Pham Nhat Vuong holding 99 percent control of VinFast, the limited availability of publicly traded shares has led to potential stock volatility.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Ant has its roots in Alipay, an online payment service founded in 2004. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day. The company’s Alibaba spin-out came seven years later in 2011, with its former parent company buying 33% of its value in 2018 ahead of its planned IPO.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

As reported by Slate from a study from researchers at the University of North Carolina, “We have lost about 20 percent of local newspapers in the United States since 2004, and at least 900 communities now are without any local news source in that same time frame.” It’s the Gannett cuts that worry me the most.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 16, 2017

Megan is a pioneer in the IT security industry and founded CoinX, a fintech company that specializes in domestic and international payment processing and transfer services (money transmission), in 2004. As the CEO and founder, Megan is known for her ability to push the envelope in security and risk management technology.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 27, 2020

That spring of 2004, I was looking after our three kids—Emma, five; Kaitlin, three; and Keenan, two. One day in September 2004, I realized that I had learned enough and had confidence enough to make my vision a reality. Obviously, I couldn’t do that by myself, slicing up tons of fruit and filling up my fridge with pitchers of water.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. “My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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venture capital pitching communities entrepreneurs 288

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 7, 2018

In 2004, Oprah named our Key Lime Bundt Cake to her “Favorite Things” list. However, the very thing you desire could eventually be your undoing. Consider another familiar saying: “Be careful what you wish for.”. Back in 1997, We Take The Cake began as a modest mail-order bakery. It seemed like an entrepreneur’s dream come true.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

While Evans always gave back, his life changed in 2004 when his team built the National Underground Railroad Museum. His company, Megen Construction , is synonymous with some of Cincinnati’s most iconic landmarks, including the Fountain Square renovation and Underground Railroad Museum. For Evans, it wasn’t just another project.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 28, 2017

One typical Friday morning in 2004, I walked into a government building and headed to work. I was a junior Java engineer and part of a hired team building an internal system for a government agency. We were a few days behind on schedule, and a technical issue arose.

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Ian Hathaway

JANUARY 6, 2020

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. By that summer, Zuckerberg moved himself and the company to Silicon Valley and never looked back.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

exchange or an exit via M&A from 2004-2019. To find out if leadership experience significantly impacts startups’ success, we analyzed nearly 800 executives at more than 200 companies that reached a sizable exit (greater than or equal to a $500 million valuation) via an IPO on a U.S.

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