Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My was starting.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. To dig deeper, let’s first review the influence of technology on the core components. However each component will change dramatically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Use new technology to personalize and expedite.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product? Last, did I want to be a long term partner with the entrepreneurs? I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. Now, let’s shift to #2: “Are the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product?”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. The Exchange Fund – This allows the entrepreneurs to diversify their founders stock into other portfolio companies stock. and Half.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. As I’m fond of saying, “It’s pretty hard to call yourself ‘Upfront’ and then seem like you’re playing games with entrepreneurs.” Authenticity. We can be blunt.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? We think the most important principle is that the CTO is the go-to point for all technology in the business.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2012

I got an email from an entrepreneur on Saturday. I have no idea what he’s done between 2000 and 2012 – he didn’t go into it, but he used his 1996 – 2000 experience to explain why his new business was going to be great. If you are an entrepreneur, recognize that The Formula is hard at work all around you.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 10, 2011

In May 1996, Open Market completed a successful IPO and more than doubled on the first day of trading, ending with a $1.2 If investors observing this extraordinary phenomenon in 1996 were to have concluded that the technology market was in the midst of an unsustainable bubble, they would not have been wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

Entrepreneurs are, by nature, big thinkers and risk-takers. Meanwhile, filter out naysayers, seek out connections in your industry who can provide useful guidance, and surround yourself with fellow entrepreneurs (through the EntrepreneurNOW Network , for example) who can share in your struggles and successes.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered. And I will miss him every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The article summarized several findings that I personally found surprising: Technology company founders born in the U.S. There are twice as many over-50 technology company founders as there are under-25 technology company founders. Tags: entrepreneur startup boomer business.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs. He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses (ie, ones with real revenues) is 39. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. percent to 23.4

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

While that’s not true, it is a fact that entrepreneurs only have one word for “startup.” Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Some of them build great technology and awesome products that do meet user needs, but sometimes forget/overlook figuring out the revenue model till a lot later in the process. we began by building chat servers. Same thing, just different, trendy nomenclature.

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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.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. They can see and react to technology changes, market upheavals, and new competitors. He knows the stock will rise eventually because he buys only stocks of companies built for enduring success. They are close to the desires and needs of their customers.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

These valid observations may be drawn from primary research sources such as the work published by the National Academies, whose most recent report, Assessing the Impact of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem: Retaining Leadership in an Increasingly Global Environment , was released several months ago.

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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. This was oversubscribed from our initial target of $30mm and mirrors not only our growth but also the power of NYC as a hub for enterprise technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

So lots of companies went public - 1,272 of them from 1990 to 1996 - and Wall Street was very much about "long" promotion of companies' growth potential and as "analog" distributors of their stocks. Look in the coming months and years for smart investors and entrepreneurs to do more and more of the same. read more.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

And with millennials now outnumbering baby boomers, a large portion of entrepreneurs are in that age range. While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996. Millennials Have Technology in Their Veins. At least generally speaking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Share Being an entrepreneur is the road rarely traveled. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they got into entrepreneurship. #1 I decided to become an entrepreneur because I was not fulfilled working for others. 10 years later we found that technology had made it possible to solve it in a matter of seconds.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. When I discuss business models with entrepreneurs and investors, there is a varying appreciation for why recurring revenue is so special.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

Today I had the honor of congratulating the 2017 graduating class of the UT Austin Masters in Science and Technology Commercialization. This was the first time I’ve given a commencement speech, but my message is the same one I’ve had for student entrepreneurs since I first started teach Longhorn Startup many years ago. I took the job.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. I have been in and around technology for over ten years. And a lot of times, there are technological underpinnings. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

It was created in 1996 by 12 concerned mothers raising adolescent girls in Austin, Texas. AWES (Austin Women Entrepreneur Society) Who? Hosting gatherings of female entrepreneurs monthly. There was an excitement in the room that is usually created by a group of entrepreneurs. GEN Austin Who? Events are free.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

In 1994, (I know a long time ago), I invested over a million dollars (two million six hundred thousand in today’s dollars) into a company whose entrepreneurs had a vision that I bought into for many reasons, not the least of which was that I had industry experience and understood the need. Fast forward just a few years to 1996.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. This company is one of the best companies that revolutionized technology. George Bell later approached the two entrepreneurs and offered them $750,000 which they refused and instead asked him to add a little more for investment but not to buy it out.

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