Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’ve known and worked with Andy since 1995 (I was on the board of his first company – Abuzz – which was acquired in 1999 by the New York Times) and am awed by the amazing things he’s doing in Seattle these days, including Founder’s Co-op , RevenueLoan , and of course TechStars Seattle.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

It used to be that anyone in the entrepreneurial world had to be keenly cognizant of what was going on in New York City. CEOs of pre-IPO companies were always shuttling into New York to talk up their companies, tell their story and get feedback to prepare for the public markets. First, that's where the customers were.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. You felt invincible. You were minted. Making bank. King makers.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… New York. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. 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. Mozilla Firefox. » More.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. 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. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Image Credit: Bess Heitner.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Mike Keiser (the founder of Recycled Paper Greetings) had a vision to create a true links experience in the US. Several years later, Bandon Trails opened in 1995 and the fourth course (Old Macdonald) is scheduled to open by summer 2010. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. 3 hours ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. You felt invincible. You were minted. Making bank. King makers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

“You’re talking about a generation that has seen what happened with their parents and Enron, and what happened in 2009 and 2010—the traditional workforce eroding before our eyes,” says YEC founder Scott Gerber. That’s up from 89 percent five years ago and 85 percent ten years ago, reports the New York Times.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. The New York Times describes Hipcamp as “ The Sharing Economy Visits the Backcountry.” If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

If it’s New York, there’s an easy United flight that gets you there in under four hours – take it the day after you graduate. If you aren’t technical, go find a technical co-founder right now – there are hundreds of them on this campus. Don’t be that guy or gal. San Francisco?

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

As I mentioned last week , I just started a new chapter of my career journey as CEO of LRN, a SaaS company based in New York City that provides ethics and compliance education software while advising companies on shaping values-based leadership, cultures and governance as sources of competitive advantage.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. Scalable startups in innovation clusters (Silicon Valley, Shanghai, New York, Bangalore, Israel, etc.) But unlike scalable startups their goal is to make the world a better place, not to take market share or to create to wealth for the founders. Fast forward to today.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

economy and for maintaining competitiveness, 86% of CEOs surveyed said that going public was a less attractive option for businesses today than in 1995. Also speaking during the same session was Seth Goldman, the founder of Honest Tea. "He He said it's become so daunting to go public that he would rather stay private.".

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

A mutual friend connected me in San Francisco with Ori in New York. We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. Ori had been working in advertising for 7 years but had been waiting to find the right start-up opportunity. 15 – Action.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Having the founder [locally] present for this process can be the difference between success and failure.” American VCs are critical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The United States is locked in a new arms race for that most precious resource -- the future entrepreneurs upon whom economic growth depends. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. The Devil Wears Prada * – young woman comes to New York and scores her dream job as the assistant to one of the world’’s biggest fashion magazine editors, but struggles to balance the demands of her new role with her prior identity and relationships.

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