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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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. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. 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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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. So, the following fits into both of my professional worlds (Cornell and CVF).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. #9- A merger of two companies.

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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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Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. And what interests me is who makes the money on timing these trends. .

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Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Developing a culture of continued education and continuous improvement is critical if you want to retain your staff and provide them with advancement opportunities. Encourage everyone to read books for personal development. There’s plenty you can do right within your own doors and that employees can do on their own.

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Balance Sheet America Employee Programming 142

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

Daniel expects SharePoint's cloud based solution provider eco-system to develop over the next few years. He wants to provide both a branded app store and white-labeled stores for developers to put on their respective sites. He currently has a 1999 strategy. There is one problem with the strategy, though.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

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. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. ” The founders of WeDidIt saw an opportunity and a need, and put aside the fears everyone who’s ever struck out on their own faces.

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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. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. LibreDigital.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

On the other hand, remarkable wealth and economic boom in Newcastle can also be seen in real estate developments, tourism, lush vineyards, commercial centres and start-up businesses. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. History of Wealth in Newcastle.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Domain Experience – “Domain experience&# means that the founders have worked in the industry before. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Develop a defined contribution solution. Develop the components necessary for becoming a health insurance concierge. He is also the founder of six companies including the two largest U.S. suppliers of personalized employee health benefits, Extend Health (1999) and Zane Benefits (2006).

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 206

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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Chicago Venture Capital Cofounder Incubator 101

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. Thanks Lee.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure.

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. 8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 170

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2020

, you know that my company and main professional life’s work up to this point, Return Path, was a 1999 vintage email technology company that we sold last year. I won’t rename this blog OnlyTwice, but there’s definitely a lot to be said for being a second-time founder.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales.

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Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

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. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

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. Initial team members of founding team should be 4-5 people – 2 developers, 1 designer, 1 product manager, and maybe 1 marketing person.

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EC2 Social Network Distribution Demand 53

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

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. But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns. I could obviously go on.

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Silicon Valley Deal Flow Angel Investor Cofounder 306

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. Ryan was my savior when it came time for questions on how SOLR clustering works, why Postgres was more suitable to us than MySQL and why aspect-oriented programming was delivering us benefits in the development process.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

The mobile phone has transformed billions of lives by providing previously unavailable connectivity, information and economic development (studies have linked a 10% increase in mobile penetration to a 1.2% Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110