Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Messages can be classified as public or private; named or anonymous. Orchard for e-Books”. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Mobile gifting service. LibreDigital.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Health insurance brokers partner with defined contribution software providers to increase their book of business. It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 2- A name to push back against antiquated industry practices. 3- Used my name as part of it. Thanks to Nicole T. Photo Credit: Tony Palazzo.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. Go seek out the experts. They love their industry.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

We’re also rapidly becoming known as the go-to firm for training in innovation process and corporate storytelling (Kate Hammer’s StormForms is getting rave reviews, book her now or you’ll be talking 2014). I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A few weeks ago, FG Press released the first book in its Techstars series titled No Vision All Drive: Memoirs of an Entrepreneur. If you recognize David Cohen’s name, but not David Brown’s, you have a new David in your world. Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis).

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Having read the majority of Peter Lynch’s investment books, I knew not to ignore the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our team. Even those that started skeptically came back enthused.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. And for some reason this seems like it is seldom talked about in the press as we celebrate every check written and every name attached to them. There is a downside. I assure you.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. Our podcast then turned into a book and we were off to the races. 19- Fill a need and research.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# Building a blog & name recognition is only one small, small part of my job.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. Now, the present. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. It was 1999. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Uber recently named Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. As the Uber story continues to unfold, it will become one of the canonical examples of scaling, like the stories from my Masters of Scale podcast , and in my upcoming book on Blitzscaling. Mac in a book by 1986. The pirates of entrepreneurship.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. All founders could do was accumulate wise advisors and rely on their wits and instinct. It’s not the easiest read, but for the first time founders had a playbook they could follow.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Five years of hard work later, Stratajet is the result; the world’s first fully-automated private jet booking platform – the only system that can provide accurate availability and costs of private jets in ‘real-time’ Thanks to Jonny Nicol, Stratajet ! #5 5 – Old Man Strength. 12 – It was Just Time.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Working directly with other CEOs and founders, I receive immediate feedback and appreciation for my expertise.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 4, 2011

In 1999 Foreman sold the rights to the George Foreman Grill for $137 million. Venus Williams is a world-renowned tennis player and a household name, with 21 Grand Slam Tournament titles to her name. He is a best-selling author and the founder of Athletes for Hope , a charitable organization. Venus Williams.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

In 1999 Foreman sold the rights to the George Foreman Grill for $137 million. Venus Williams is a world-renowned tennis player and a household name, with 21 Grand Slam Tournament titles to her name. He is a best-selling author and the founder of Athletes for Hope , a charitable organization. Venus Williams.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

How did you come up with your business name? TRADECONDUCTOR – I came up with the name because CONDUCTOR means either a person who directs the performance of an orchestra or choir. Spend money on travel, books, educators, mentors, health and mental health. Conductors are also the materials that permit electrons to flow freely.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. Growth has been flat-out explosive, with over two million room nights already booked. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Kidding aside, Swisher said, “dudes in Silicon Valley” do seem to have no trouble playing the game and picking up the inside lingo of pumped-up valuations and venture capitalist name-dropping.". Both of these women had a significant impact on my career.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. You can only create secret content by reading good books and by breaking new information in your industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. I almost didnt realize it, but theres no escaping the math.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The largest unicorns include companies such as Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Snap, and if we think back in time a bit to the name coined, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, and so forth also come to mind. Imagine that. They can just go back to their investors for more capital.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Steven gave me an advance copy of the book.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. Regulations on businesses.

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