Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. I think a lot of entrepreneurs don’t fully understand how venture capital works.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. BAND) and the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

In 1998–1999, when I was running my first company, one of my investors, the late Don Jones , came by to visit us at the office. I’ve written before about Revenue Development ). Don was totally a people person and just an all around great person to talk to. In fact, I can hear the intonation of his voice in my head as I type this.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? .

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

I was in my early 20’s just barely out of school when four of us (peers) started Sombasa Media (aka BargainDog ) here in Boston beginning in 1998. But second, we’ve also had a number of internet successes which have trained and developed people (e.g. My own personal story fits in with this narrative.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Sold to Yahoo! Attracting angel investment and getting ‘Valley’ respect is. The startup’s name? Pied Piper.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. I smiled when some asked if they were too late to enter the sector.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Software Development. After that, Ill finish the article by saying a few things about the specific challenges of hiring software developers. Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. In 1998, SourceGear was looking to hire a full-time person in technical support. Hire Developers, Not Programmers.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Are you seeking a loan or investment from an angel investor or venture capital firm? As the travel industry is so competitive, having a well-developed brand will help your business stand out. From personal funds to venture capital funding, it’s all a possibility.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Dan Burstein, Managing Partner, Millennium Technology Value Partners Dan Burstein founded Millennium Technology Ventures in 2000 and co-founded Millennium Technology Value Partners in 2004. Dan began making institutional venture capital investments as the Chief Investment Officer for the PS Capital funds in the second half of.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). How can you reveal your reputation?

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. This was not uncommonduring the Bubble, especially in companies run by business types, who thought of software development as something terrifying thattherefore had to be carefully planned. This is calledseed capital.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

For instance, the Delaware Brownfield Assistance Program offers funding for a small business that plans to develop environmentally distressed areas in the state. One of the more lucrative federal grant programs is the Small Business Innovation Research Program, which helps businesses with research and development projects.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

average registered in 2010 by countries of the club of developed nations, which Israel joined last year. Chen also met Israeli President Shimon Peres who highlighted the key role of technology innovation in economic development of Israel and China. MobileAccess, formerly Foxcom Wireless, was founded in 1998.

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Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2016

(girl scout song believed to be adapted from poem written by Joseph Parry (1841-1903) or perhaps Boardwalk Empire if you believe Reddit ) In the picture above, "Make New Friends" was sung by the entire Barron Park Elementary School on its first day as a neighborhood school in 1998. A fitting song for a new school year and new school.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

One of the key takeaways that both Charlie and Andrew emphasized to the students was to be power users in whatever area of focus they choose to develop those instincts. Do you build out your own features or expand your APIs and invest in supporting third party developers to build applications to your platform.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Back in like 1998? There’s nothing that got announced as part of this new product development that made me say “Wow, that’s going to make my Facebook experience better. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. And bouncing messages not from your friends? Remember when people used to say that their e-mails got lost?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. Bates: You know Josh—.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. “ They measured every single thing ” by developing one massive database of key metrics. It’s not just baseball. The book, “ Scorecasting ”, talks about studies done by economists David Romer.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” (As

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. I believe this use of cryptocurrency will develop and flourish long after the dust settles from the hype and crash of cryptocurrencies that we’re experiencing in 2017. Regulation will come. It needs to come fast.

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