YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

Bloapp is the brainchild of Nicky Wong, the founder and director of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based Infindo Technology ( www.infindo.com ). Wong, a serial entrepreneur, also founded Linknet Solutions in 1999 and was responsible for developing Brunei’s first and largest online shopping website, www.qqestore.com. .&#

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

by David Johnson, founder and CEO of TempCFO. Having emergency cash can cushion the blow and act as a safety net while also giving you peace of mind and a sense of security that you have money to pay rent, food, and other personal expenses. It can be disastrous and crippling when you lose your main income source. Limit Your Spending.

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Startup Salary CPA Small Business Administration 140

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Mathile: Clay Mathile, pet food billionaire (net worth: roughly $1.8 billion), father of five, and founder of the Aileron Institute, a non-profit boot camp for small business owners looking to take their companies to that coveted next level. billion in 1999. Mathile, 70, sold pet food maker Iams Co.

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Ohio Florida Entrepreneur Cofounder 39

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. 5- Jack Ma founder of Alibaba. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Thanks to Bruce Harpham. #3- Photo Credit: Donny Gamble. Photo Credit: CJ Xia.

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Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 108

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?” ” I told everybody I wasn’t going to and I meant it. It’s a great interview.

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Artificial Inteligence Partner .Net Technology 150

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

7/ Net/Net: VC is a hard f **g business but simplification in press makes it seem glamorous & easy – almost swashbuckling. Fortunately Steve Schlenker, co-founder of DN Capital has captured most of them in his Quora answer to the question: How hard is it to be a venture capitalist. NotGlamorous.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

You are the founder and CEO of GulpMonger, three years out of college, fresh out of Y Combinator. For most people the utility of going from a net worth of 100k to a few millions is huge. .” Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Stock Options Vesting 73

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

Zend was originally set up by founders Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski who were key contributors to PHP and the creators of the core PHP scripting engine, the Zend Engine. As a result of this round, Harel Beit-On, Founder and General Partner at Viola Private Equity will be joining Zend’s board of directors.

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Private Equity Equity PHP 87

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We have companies that became valuable through founders that sacrificed for years and through hard work – and partly through luck – achieved great things. It seemed like a message in a bottle opened from a shipwreck in 1999. He smiled midway through my story and said, in broken English, “oh, you have unicorns!”

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