Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. They can use Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad approach to get out of the building and actually incorporate customer development early into the definition of their business. And I don’t think I have since then.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Let the games begin …. Beertending.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. This lasted from about 2001-2004.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Letter of Intent for a Business Venture. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Computer Security.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? Work product can’t be ignored, but central to Customer Development is having a solid relationship with customers so that you can learn their needs and iterate to a product that fits.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

This conference is an evolution of the Alternative Investment Roundup that the executives at SSBC designed, developed and ran each February in Arizona from 1997 through 2008. Each year the Arizona event attracted more than 130 Institutional Investors representing over $2 Trillion in investable assets.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The policy conversation regarding jobs and economic development is starting to show some promising signs, particularly in helping young companies flourish. The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. It’s new businesses. This is a good start.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Sponsored by SXSW Interactive, the International Game Developer’s Association of Austin, Mr. Data, Ricochet Labs and the Digital Media Council. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs. 12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

The investment network here is growing, but is still grossly developing when compared to those coastal cities. City leadership is actively championing the development of later stage funding sources, and the city’s culture lends itself to supporting that. versus $10M+). However, Austin is well poised to catch up quickly.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 19, 2009

mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">   mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> The Q1 2009 venture capital investment statistics. moderated at Stanford on March 18 th at ITSEF III , I pointed out that one developing impact of the global financial crisis that was not yet evident in the financial statistics would be accelerated declines in.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

We chatted with a panel of expert aesthetes in the space, including Spymaster designer Eston Bond , veteran creative director Rich Barrett , designer/developer Warren Benedetto , Mike Rundle of 9rules and Beak fame, and the Paul du Coudray Lowdown , the winner of this years Rails Rumble appearance category. so they do. Drives me crazy.

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BeyondVC

JULY 19, 2005

Robert Scoble has asked the VCs to respond to an eWeek article titled Is.Net Failing to Draw Venture Capital Loyalty? There is not much for me to add to this article as we all know that the only loyalty VCs have is to their Limited Partners to generate long-term capital gains.

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. The NVCA has developed research going back forty years showing that over 90% of the job growth created by venture-backed companies occurs AFTER their IPO. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible. “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff.

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