BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

What you are not aware of is how much struggle the founders had to go through to get to that pinnacle of success. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

Dave McClure: MoneyBall for Startups: Invest BEFORE Product/Market Fit, Double-Down AFTER. In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our each are equally happy situations.)

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Today I’m thrilled to share the story of my long-time friends and Kansas Citians Casey and Sloane Simmons, co-founders of a store called Stuff , as a part of the “Amex Welcomed” program with @americanexpress , which is showcasing the people behind our favorite local businesses that welcome American Express.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. Really hard.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.

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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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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Implementing this strategy and activities in the workplace could increase the productivity of your employees and work together as a team towards the common goal for the company. She's the founder and CEO of JAM, a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play. That wasn't my intention in 1996.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The company spends the $1m building and launching their first product. The product gets a lot better. The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company. So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. The founders have started companies before. American VCs are critical.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. of DotNetInvoice (my asp.net billing product) about 2 weeks ago. We launched version 2.5 License file?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

They didn’t have the ability to crowdfund or go to an incubator either, so they did the only thing they could do in 1996: work out of their garages. David Rubenstein , co-founder and CEO of private investment firm The Carlyle Group, agrees that taking a risk pays off in the end. So are the ants.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

Gonzo is a passionate internet entrepreneur who has been doing business online since 1996. One day it struck me: if we had built it from scratch, we’d have done it in 3 months, and it would have been our own fine and dandy, shiny product. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Gonzo Arzuaga. We couldn’t make it work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Two of my favorites are from Flixster and LiveJournal. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Jared Hecht: Wonderful.

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