Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. Shopping.com.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Super-angels.

Entrepreneur 274

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Silicon Valley Angel Investor 274

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Remember, we’re on the Internet right now, and the Internet is owned by cats. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. My mission is to create freedom in entrepreneurs lives by living and working freely! My wife was a web designer and I a search marketer and it seemed a good match.

Naming 98

Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! New Research: The Skills That Make an Entrepreneur | Bill J. I’m Not The Product, But I Play One On The Internet - [link]. This is what the internet looked like in 1995.

Social Media 100

Social Media Small Business Design Media 100

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. First, my students are confused about who to talk to and how to think about funding their consumer internet startups.

Lean 258

Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 258

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. Startups are the lifeblood of our economy.

San Francisco 121

San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. I started my company with an investment of $10 to buy my domain name, $10 for web hosting, $80 for a WordPress template – and nothing else, other than time.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 384

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. But have no doubt the other 3 senses will arrive on the web. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. Web enabled – of course.

Moldova 91

Moldova Internet Australia Libya 91

Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 6, 2015

Invented first commercial web cam software, SnapNSend, in 1995. The internet makes everyone (Big and small) look the same. Fundera – Single source online funding for entrepreneurs. Show Quotes The internet makes everyone (Big and small) look the same. Fundera - Single source online funding for entrepreneurs.

Southern California 60

Southern California Engineer California Internet 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Snaptu is a startup run by a highly innovative collection of engineers and entrepreneurs who we already work closely with,&# Facebook said in a statement. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300. Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9% Before that, unemployment was last at 6.1%

Java 79

Java Database Argentina 79

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday. Internet businesses are harder and harder to name since the dot com is still the leading TLD. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world. This post will be live later today.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur Haiti Nigeria 48

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

The technologies that make these features work have a huge future, but entrepreneurs should also consider how they can leverage it in any product they’re working on. After English speakers, Mandarin, Spanish, and Arabic speakers are the biggest users of the Internet. Michael Mayernick , Spinnakr. Thought leadership. Localization.

Founder 156

Founder Cofounder India Leadership 156

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

This was pre Internet. It was in 1995 when I realized the power of personal branding. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. We got to define Internet offerings for one of the largest telcos in Europe. I introduced myself as a serial entrepreneur.

Marketing 385

Marketing Europe Engineer Networking 385

The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

As the founder of one of the earliest online marketing companies, creator of Squidoo , and author of multiple best-selling books , American entrepreneur Seth Godin needs little introduction. Information is there online, to any one of the billion people who has access to the Internet. “They used to be the same thing.

Video 145

Video America Security Internet 145

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I met Jerry in 1995. NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). I was trying to get a deal done and it was a stressful mess. Work does not have to destroy us.

Non-Compete 70

Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 22, 2011

I’m an Internet infopreneur. An infopreneur is an “information entrepreneur&# , someone who turns words (or more specifically, information) into income – in a number of innovative ways. I’m an infopreneur who uses the Internet as a medium for distributing and monetizing information. Here are some: 1.

Internet 111

Internet India Curation Web 111

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. 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.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

But if you work in an environment where the person working next to you is a full-time Account Manager at an unrelated company, and a freelancer in the same workspace is working on their own web design projects, and you’re all working independently while sharing the same space… you are coworking! How did coworking start?

Austin 48

Austin Community Networking America 48

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Historically the dream of many entrepreneurs has been to go public. In 2009, Barry was a category winner of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a winner of Crain’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was included on Treasury & Risk’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

BeyondVC

APRIL 29, 2006

Microsoft plans on investing for the long term and putting another $2b into the Internet and other new technologies like the XBox. " Looking at the long term, I am quite excited about the prospects of all of this money coming into help grow the Internet sector and SaaS. That only means good news for VCs and entrepreneurs.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Internet Software Stock 60

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. The new received wisdom is that the best entrepreneurs can stay CEO through the entire growth cycle of the company. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships.

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78