Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hire a CEO to Go Public. The VCs would hire a CEO with a track record who looked and acted like the type of CEO Wall Street bankers expected to see in large companies. The role of the independent member was typically to tell the founding CEO that the VCs were hiring a new CEO.). People had to actually pay you for your product.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 5, 2015

I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street. Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. That''s why I got hired by First Round--to help them build a presence in NYC.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

At VivaTech last week, we got an insight into the first-hand experience of John Chambers who was CEO and Chairman of Cisco from 1995-2017, and who now invests in early-stage tech start-ups around the world, with a particular focus on mentoring emerging leaders. They were likely not the right hire, and you should both move on quickly.

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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. He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. To blitzscale, or not to blitzscale?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Microsoft did not open a Washington office until 1995. They hire local employees or family. As they can’t provide the scale to attract venture capital, they fund their businesses via friends/family or small business loans. They attract investment from equally crazy financial investors – venture capitalists.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). According to the company, GMV for 2017 was an impressive $150 million, followed by an astounding $600 million in 2018.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Provigent, which was founded in 2000, raised $55 million from international and Israeli venture capital firms. Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. Unemployment fell to 6.1% Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9%

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Some 92% of job growth comes after a company goes public - which makes sense, because a company acquires public capital in order to hire people.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. American VCs are critical. The founders have started companies before.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. And how has that affected venture capital? I thought, "Oh, I'll start it as a hobby, and if it turns into something, I'll hire a CEO. Almost no skills from being a venture capitalist translate to being a CEO, and vice versa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

I ran the group from 1995 through 2002, which was an incredibly exciting period of time, during which time the so-called cocktails developed. These research centers run by local people, again, to provide antiretroviral therapy in places where needed most and change the way that NIH did research in those areas.

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