Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. They met and married in China in 1994. Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. They met and married in China in 1994. In essence, Kidorable is a love story. In essence, Kidorable is a love story.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

” With Mattermark , I remember the moment clearly – I was at The Kitchen in Boulder with the founders (Danielle Morrill, Kevin Morrill, and Andy Sparks) and my partner Seth. When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. And that was it.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

First-time entrepreneurs and small business founders often feel anxious when they think about all the factors that play into getting their idea off the ground. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2020

Will and I made our first angel investment together in 1994 – in Raj’s first company NetGenesis (which went public in 1999). They share their tips, secrets, and advice in a frank, founder-to-founder discussion with you. Over 13,000 people bought the book, it’s a 4.8-star

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) One of the darkest moments as an entrepreneur for me was to have co-founders leave the company. Mind the overlap.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 If anyone tells you products sell themselves, they probably want you to fail”, said Phil Libin , co-founder and CEO of Evernote. Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline. 05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The founders of the companies all have stories to share. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. #4. There are plenty of tech companies out there that have been around for some time. Each and every company has its own story to bring to the table. Alphabet Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Over two decades have passed since he made that statement, but the Internet has helped change the banking landscape remarkably.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. Key Takeaway: The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board. [12:15] 16:30] How important is it that board members like and respect each other? [18:46] Yeah, yeah.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. I immediately liked what I saw.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. It’s proven accurate on many occasions.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The challenge here is that founders – having an easy time raising their seed rounds and maybe Series A – can be lulled into thinking that each subsequent round will be just as easy. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). It’s a pretty steep drop-off rate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. James Dondero has lived in Dallas since 1994.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec. Ben Rosen, arguably the best VC of the era”.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. It seems like tax time is fraught with last minute scrambling to gather business records for those who claim business deductions.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I have two simple rules for founders in my head from this experience. Deal with reality as a founder as well as an investor group and avoid this complexity – just clean up your cap table instead.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. 1994 – present. He’s the #1 LinkedIn Influencer of all time in page views, ahead of Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Mark Cuban, and President Barack Obama. It’s also a fast way to lose all your money.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

And every once in a while I fact-checked monologue jokes or ran across NYC to pick up celebrity-related props (the vintage denim jacket photoshoot they appeared in pre-stardom, the Japan-only release of a terrible movie they’d try to bury) — you have to remember this was 1994–95 and the consumer internet was still largely in its formative stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As What is your vision or Oblong’s vision of where all this is heading…. “So

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Andy Jassy will be taking over as CEO, and Jeff will be Executive Chairman.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

Will is finishing up his 31st angel investment (we’ve done a bunch together – including my very first one – NetGenesis in 1994) and he walks through what he’s learned from 16 years of angel investing. For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. It’s a start, a work of art. To revolutionize make a change nothing’s strange. People, people we are the same. You say what is this?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started making angel investments in 1994, Len invested alongside me in many companies, including NetGenesis, Harmonix, and Oblong. We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.)

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

By Robert Bruce, founder of www.homes.forsale. I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I had no idea what that meant, so I turned it down. It turned out to be a big mistake. The domain (www.dog.com) is probably worth $2 million now.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2015

by Steve Smith, founder of ISO (It Straps On). Steve Smith founded ISO , It Straps On, Inc in 1994. Import/export companies in the U.S. have a wealth of information at their fingertips. If you’re in the business, or just getting started, here’s some information that might help you. International Trade Administration.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. Over dinner, after he had become the COO of Twitter (but before he was the CEO), Dick Costolo (who had previously been the founder/CEO of FeedBurner) told me that he viewed Twitter as the evolution of RSS. One of our themes is Protocol.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994. The benefits of microfinance have been debated since the ’70s when the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh began making tiny loans to impoverished small business owners.

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