Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

If it sounds ridiculous to you, then just remember that in many cultures we gather in giant stadiums to watch teams of adult humans dressed in co-ordinated attire kick dead animal skins through white sticks (football). I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. Facebook goes public. Here’s the history of Bitcoin price: 2018.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review China IPO Vesting 105

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. This isn’t true.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

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?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single. ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. .” ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. KILN launches IdeaKeg(tm) Single. .

Boston 101

Boston United Kingdom North America Early Stage 101

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

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). He has a series of this name and you can see us discussing the topic on YouTube. in honor of my mother.

Software Review 48

Software Review Sales Cofounder Analytics 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

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. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

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.

Silicon Valley 306

Silicon Valley Deal Flow Angel Investor Cofounder 306

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

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. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

CTO 78

CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 78

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder?

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company.

Seattle 63

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Subject line like it’s 1999! Everyone loves the sound of their own name. You know, using someone’s name in an automated email just couldn’t possibly have any positive effect. You know, using someone’s name in an automated email just couldn’t possibly have any positive effect. NO, really!

Email 114

Email Customer HTML Campaign 114

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.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Internet Networking Salary 69

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

You can probably think of household names in each of those categories. I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

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. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

Silicon Valley 45

Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. 12 – It was Just Time.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

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). It’s written by David Brown and is the origin story of David Brown and David Cohen’s first company Pinpoint Technologies.

Boston 137

Boston Cofounder Partner Leadership 137

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. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 61

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. The title is not important; the work they do is.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. He’s someone we trust with anything and listen to carefully whenever he has feedback.

LP 155

LP Advisory Board Venture Capital Early Stage 155

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.” Premium-brand market leaders [.]

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the thoughtful notes I got was from Scott Petry – one of my good friends and co-founder of Authentic8 (we are investors). Scott co-founded Postini and a bunch of email stuff at Google after Google acquired Postini in 2007. You need to know the host names of your service, the ports, encryption values, etc.

Oauth 151

Oauth Security Cofounder API 151

Hearpreneur

MARCH 28, 2018

Barb has led the company through a changing industry and has served as the President and CEO since 1999. How did you come up with your business name? Moran is the family name of our co-founders Dennis Moran and Barbara Moran Goodrich. Why co-branding makes sense. What makes you unique?

Cofounder 49

Cofounder Illinois United States Retention 49

Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Became tenured professor of economics at Harvard at age 28, where he first started mentoring a young undergraduate named Sheryl Sandberg, who ultimately became his chief of staff at the US Treasury.

Russia 76

Russia Mexico Cofounder New York 76

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

You may feel as I did in 1999 that the more smart people around the table the more intros you’ll have, the more sage advice you’ll receive and the more impressive you’ll seem to outsiders. Hopefully each lead or co-lead their round so there is more harmony in the configuration. The Perils of Many. The Pitfall of One.

Dilution 314

Dilution Cap Table Due Diligence Option Pool 314

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. . #8 – Almost By Mistake. Photo Credit: Marcus Miller. I was a developer. Thanks to Jess Waldeck, Maven Xchange. #10

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Non-Compete LLC Social Media 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

As a result that led me to start my own business and co-write the bestseller, “ Unboss ”, because I felt like there was a need for organizations that were more independent and “free-spirited”. How did you come up with your business name? I am the founder of Tradeconductor.com – World peace through trade and CEO of GetCapitalAid.

Global 53

Global India Networking Cofounder 53

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. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

Rhode Island 78

Rhode Island Portfolio Liechtenstein San Francisco 78

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. Later this month on the 28th, my co-hosts will be Marissa Campise and Sarah Tavel. Both of these women had a significant impact on my career.

Silicon Valley 112

Silicon Valley Cofounder Venture Capital Valuation 112

Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). This isn’t the first ed-tech boom to crowd the market with companies whose names sound alike.

Indiana 54

Indiana Cofounder Chicago Venture Capital 54

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.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Software Review LLC 48

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.

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

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). There is a wealth of information and connections on it.

Technology 191

Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191