Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. overnight success entrepreneur startup Seth Godin business' Marty Zwilling.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. link] leehower. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. The ATI staff, structure and entrepreneur-rich environment alleviated some of the logistical burdens present for a small organization and allowed the Wi-Fi Alliance to focus on growth.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. He wrote it a while ago and it has sat in my draft queue waiting for the perfect moment to emerge.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

But more interestingly I saw it in my twitter feed from some entrepreneurs and VCs who I respect a lot. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked. Two years ago we probably wouldn’t have considered Rover.com as it would have fallen outside our active themes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

As exits have been flowing nicely again the past few years, many of the entrepreneurs I work with have experienced their first big exit. I refer to this moment as when you find that you have life changing money in your bank account, which I like to call “f**k you money.”

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the things I’ve often thought over the years since starting Return Path in 1999 is that there’s no instruction manual anywhere for how to be a CEO. That became one of the driving forces behind the creation of my blog, OnlyOnce (because “ you’re only a first time CEO once ”) back in 2004. Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!).

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But for individual entrepreneurs who just have a good idea and big dreams, its easy to be misled into thinking that walking in the door with a fancy legal document makes you look professional or "serious". Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. Comments (HTML is okay).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. million … yes that was seed in 1999!) 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. Don’t drink it.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

The entrepreneurs I speak to are feeling it every day. Thus, if you are an entrepreneur, your competitors - not necessarily market-based competitors but simply other entrepreneurs who are pursuing capital - are that much more sophisticated and advanced than ever before. When they build the prototype, they go get customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Coworking spaces strive to create an office experience for people who would not otherwise have an office such as freelancers, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and anyone who can work from home. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. Mixergy offers access to insightful interviews with entrepreneurs and masterclasses for startups. Borderless world. That momentum was key to success in both campaigns.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Wang, whose resume includes stints at companies like Microsoft and Cisco, co-founded one of China’s first e-commerce sites in 1999. After Amazon acquired that site, called Joyo, in 2004, Wang went on to build a new e-commerce site, DHGate. Wang believes that having a dream is the number-one prerequisite for being an entrepreneur.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. At stake: Power itself. Enlarge Image Close.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. In 2004 I began blogging. Daryl: Yaro, about how many visitors a month do you have to Entrepreneurs Journey now? How many subscribers?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

A brief entry further down the page from the open source, pseudonymous online journal Zero Hedge (tagline: “On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero”) points out that of the tech companies that went public in often wildly lucrative IPOs in 2013, 73 percent have never turned a profit, compared to 27 percent in 1999.

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