Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Whenever I visit the US, one question mobile entrepreneurs always ask me is ‘How can my startup break into China?’. The biggest mistake most US entrepreneurs make right off the bat is in thinking of China as one market. Seeing double.

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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. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. And no life is more of a constant negotiation than that of an entrepreneur. Subscribe by email.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

When I invested in enterprise software in the late 1990′s, I saw a proliferation of “best of breed” solutions. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. – DO A COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE.

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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. He openend with his first issue.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Personally, Entrepreneurs fascinate me…. Targeting entrepreneurs who are at the “Start-up to Scale-up” sector. Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. Look at software to automate the business, software to manage inventory etc.

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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. Many are immersive and include internships. A few are longer than 12 weeks. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

However, the lack of funding opportunities has forced many entrepreneurs to seek funding abroad. Rather than being unemployed, graduates may become the promising entrepreneurs starting new businesses and creating jobs. Alliy is also an entrepreneur, having established Yellow Masai and TanTravel. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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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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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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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.

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Silicon Valley Startup Software Engineering Open Source 60

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

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. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, I’d like to start by sharing the story of a female entrepreneur who did experience VC funding success—but still also felt the impact of the biases held by the industry. A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. A rare success.

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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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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. This isn’t true.

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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. . ==. All of the following systems involve software / hardware to inform drivers or physically take action on a car’s throttle, brake, or steering systems.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. Consumer approach to software for business users. Page 6: We already have several pilot customers including a very large, unnamed software firm. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy.

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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. Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty Removal | Moz - crowdspring.co/19gITgv.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

Basically, an app (or other software) uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when your mobile device enters or exits a virtual perimeter set up around a geographical location. He has been an entrepreneur since 1991 when he started a Carbon Nano-Materials manufacturing company, SES Research.

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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. He wrote it a while ago and it has sat in my draft queue waiting for the perfect moment to emerge.

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Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” Back then there was no “cloud” so we had to plow money into hardware, software licenses and web hosting. I was investing in myself. I had never been a VC before.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via Pley.

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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. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years. Today, Return Path has less than one administrative assistant in a company of the same size.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners on their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- Years later, he bounced back from that situation has built multiple successful companies including AppSumo – a great place to get deals on software. 1- Reed Hastings. Photo Credit: Paige Arnof-Fenn.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Subscription pricing has been around for a long time for magazines, cloud-based software, and gaming, but now I’m seeing it used for just about anything, including for more stylish clothes via Mr.Conection , gourmet foods via TryTheWorld , and toys for your kids via SparkBoxToys. business model entrepreneur startup subscription'

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. It wouldnt boot.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Business Software. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Tools & Research.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

There seems to be a lot of this going around these days – the “I’m just about to start a startup” category of entrepreneurs, or “I just started a startup” when they haven’t. many more people are learning software development. It’s also become the new euphemism for unemployed.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I used to meet a high profile entrepreneur or investor moving here every month and now it seems it’s one or two a week. Follow Ben on Twitter @FederalLamm #ArtificialIntelligence #CEO #Space #Science #TomorrowingToday Brett Hurt is one of the most successful serial entrepreneurs in Austin. He’s an entrepreneur, investor, and author?—?seamlessly

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2014

The comment thread was powerful and fascinating, as was the direct email feedback I got, including the following note: “I think it would be interesting to hear your perspective on how an entrepreneur should approach “what’s next” after coming off a failed business. But let me establish my bonafides first.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Slightly off-topic, there’s a good example of an entrepreneur going through the “Discovery/Validation&# process for a web business that charges for its product here. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Therefore the way to solve that is to ask, “what business model&# am I using. Examples here.

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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.&# I hope to offer experiences from being an entrepreneur and being a VC.&#.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. Or the boy in Detroit who becomes a software developer and creates an app to educate a child in the slums of Brazil. And learn from each other.

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Silicon Valley India Africa Burma 45

The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. The firm, which offers cloud-based employee management and training software, boasts 11 million users in 189 countries. Entrepreneur Insider Profiles and Interviews' Image credit: iStockphoto.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. The majority of the companies in NextView’s portfolio are fundamentally software-based, rather than being hardware related.

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