Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. And no life is more of a constant negotiation than that of an entrepreneur. I talked too much.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I felt the same way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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 that's no excuse to move slowly.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. We have received many international awards for our world and are generally recognized as the innovators who brought international development to the coffee industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). You develop a cynicism that the future will be better. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. This is part of my Startup Advice series. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time. Always developing. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice startup technology vc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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 that's no excuse to move slowly.

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Austin Startup

MAY 23, 2019

When I came to Austin in 1999, ATI was one of the only organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Texas. ATI was founded in 1989 by entrepreneur and tech ambassador Dr. George Kozmetsky and first led by Laura Kilcrease. Collaboration on campus is at record levels and it’s in no small part due to Mitch.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Times Square Strategy discussion I had with Eric Ries , was still top of mind, so instead of my standard Customer Development lecture , I offered my thoughts on: the origin of Customer Development, where we are today, and where does Customer Development go, and how you can help get it there.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. It’s a powerful model that university education has generally missed on. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Perhaps it represents what drove you to become an entrepreneur in the first place. Writing a business plan can help make sure Office Space doesn’t feel relatable [ source ].

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues.

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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. Enter the Developers. That moment is now. In that moment, I saw the light.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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 that's no excuse to move slowly.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Then I realized what that qualifies me to be: an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs have to wear a hundred different hats, be good at dozens of skills. Armchair philosophy aside, I truly believe that people with diverse skills, people who are well-rounded and good-but-not-great in many areas can make perfect entrepreneurs.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. While that’s not true, it is a fact that entrepreneurs only have one word for “startup.”

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. However, the lack of funding opportunities has forced many entrepreneurs to seek funding abroad. Alliy is also an entrepreneur, having established Yellow Masai and TanTravel.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999).

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Entrepreneurs: Don’t Quit Your Real Job Too Early.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

LinkedIn’s Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (annotated by Reid Hoffman) – crowdspring.co/1gIv7bI. 11 Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Be Able to Answer - crowdspring.co/19IMztu. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. 8 Must-have Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers - crowdspring.co/GZCuhL.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Given the gold rush going on in Silicon Valley right now, it’s not surprising that some young entrepreneurs think it’s time to drop out and start a company. But the bigger reason for me comes down to experience—rather, the lack thereof—in unstudied entrepreneurs. Not surprising, but still stupid. ”) a bit troubling.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. More Vacation is the Secret Sauce – [link].

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2005, I wrote a post called Unfolding the Map in which I looked at these two seemingly opposing philosophies from successful entrepreneurs: If you don’t have a map, you can’t get lost If you don’t have a map, you can’t get where you’re going. and tried to combine them when thinking about product roadmapping. This started back in 2000.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Launched in 1999, SeedCon is a student-run entrepreneurship and venture capital conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; the conference is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club alongside the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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 that''s no excuse to move slowly. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. A few years ago I realized my success was due to people liking working directly with me – not because they thought I was some large entity. It’s my name and people love how the logo is an ambigram of Julie and looks regal and modern.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. So they develop short-hand ways to qualify things better. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur. Tell a friend! Neither can any VC.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

But still, the subject doesn’t always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does – most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. Productivity Gains – This is something frequently cited as critical to developed economies like ours in the US.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

He has been an entrepreneur since 1991 when he started a Carbon Nano-Materials manufacturing company, SES Research. In 1999 with a graphic design partner he opened E-Webstyle (now eWebResults ) a website design and development company. Christopher Burres is the owner of eWebResults.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

We all know that creating an iPhone app can be a cumbersome process that can take some time, from signing up (and paying) Apple’s developer program to waiting for up to two weeks for Apple to approve a submitted app. With Bloapp , you cut through all that headache. And the app’s available immediately.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

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. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. link] leehower. A lot has changed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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