Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

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. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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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. Some worked; some did not.

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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. This quote came from Patrick Lightbody, the CEO and founder of BrowserMob. That moment is now.

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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. 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.

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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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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. The expectations of our company having raised $16.5

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. Beatty, as Vice President of Manufacturing, brings 18 years manufacturing and business operations experience to Calxeda.

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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. How about teaching engineering at Stanford and seeing the best & brightest before they’re even out in the wild. I will publish what I believe the five are in a series of articles.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. Our third co-founder, Aron Yechezkel, joined us at the end of 2015 and we have been working together since then, and now as Sceenic. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999.

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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). While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. With its clever engineering, Intro became a violation of trust. At their discretion.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. 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. I was a developer.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I guess not the most politic thing I’ve ever done, but you can ask anybody who was in the strategy practice of Accenture in London in 1999 and they’ll confirm I really did this. Yours had more complexity and less engineering talent secured on the team than most. .&# Obviously I got many laughs and applause.

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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. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. To be honest, I would have gladly done so. With every startup came increasing responsibility.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

The WSJ reports that hollywood is now thinking of producing TV shows and movies centered around the life of tech entrepreneurs and engineers. co-founder Steve Jobs are in the works. From Jessica Vascellaro, Entrepreneurs Get Big Break — on Screen : Comcast Corp.’s In Hollywood, two movies about Apple Inc.

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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. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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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.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Reverse engineering the origins of brand-owned terms is not a breakdown of the step-by-step planning that led from term identification to widespread acceptance. The foundation for Zuora’s ownership of “the subscription economy” is a single blog post , published by founder Tien Tzuo in May 2008, though it doesn’t use the term.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

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. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. They didn’t want this to be an engineering-centric effort,” Ms. Koller said of her company’s partner institutions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. So we, we call Google an AI based search engine now. And yeah, AI based search engines are just a lot better at choosing the right content for the query, giving you the right answer at scale than the rules based search engine, where, where Google started out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999, long time ago. So we, we call Google an AI based search engine now. And AI based search engines are just a lot better at choosing the right content for the query, giving you the right answer at scale than the rules based search engine, where, where Google started out.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This book is steeped in the knowledge of how to scale your sales team, written by people that constantly consult in this area (and thank you to Bijoy Goswami, founder of Bootstrap Austin, for the recommendation to read this book eight years ago?—?make At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. It was 1999.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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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. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Always be fund raising.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” But failing to make the transition from pirate to navy can lead to disaster.

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