Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees. And it’s still less than I was paid at Accenture in 1999. So I did, in fact, invest in myself. They choose a different path.

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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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 317

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. The market was back! March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. It’s OK to be scared.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Friendly or hostile takeover attempts are just a couple of the many ways that company founders sense a loss of control of their own destiny.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. Of course, they didn’t market it that way back in the late 90’s, but at the time, that’s how networking hardware was built and sold.

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Networking Technical Review Cloud Software Review 152

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Our biggest problem was market traction not each other.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

However, there are many competitors in this industry providing similar services and have similar names, but I am okay as long as it serves the purpose and is being recognized in the market well enough. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets. One of my earliest excursions into market research was working for a research firm doing a 1979 forecast on ATMs. There’s also timing and trends, leadership, luck, and maybe even marketing. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). And market your brand, not your personality. I also got the chance to hear from and meet the founder of About.com – Scott Kurnit – who gave a lively talk that challenged much startup conventional wisdom.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2021

by Terry Monroe , founder and president of American Business Brokers & Advisors (ABBA) and author of “ Hidden Wealth: The Secret To Getting Top Dollar For Your Business “ The vaccine for the COVID-19 virus recently began shipment.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this or break?—?the

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

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?&# Markets always evolve toward higher resolution. When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. approx 1999-07.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. Part 1 of 2 part posting by guest blogger Debra Eichten, Entrepreneurship at Cornell staff, interview with the founders of Agronomic Technology. Hope you enjoy it.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. 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.” ” By August they had filed their incorporation paperwork and started marketing their new business. .” million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. And they’re happy they did it.

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Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Everything she does is with authenticity, from how she communicates to her market, to how she manages her staff. Neil Waterhouse, founder and host of multiple Aussie eBay and E-Commerce Sellers Meetup Groups, advises start-ups to focus on proven products with a track record. Nathan Huppatz – Co-founder, Costumes.com.au

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Global Channel Sales Software Review 87

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

My advice was to keep doing the SharePoint solution development and consulting work the company does today and develop the store project as a side effort until the market is ready. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. He currently has a 1999 strategy.

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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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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. Domain Experience – “Domain experience&# means that the founders have worked in the industry before. I’ll be covering my PUCCKA sales methodology. I learned the domain lesson myself.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

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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Founder San Diego SMS Los Angeles 214

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Basically, employees purchase their own individual policies on the open market (a purchase frequently offset by government subsidies), and employers reimburse them. You can attract these employers by emphasizing your familiarity with the individual market and your experience working with defined contribution solutions.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

. “ Right now, we are in a moment where many founders find themselves confronting problems they didn’t create but must tackle. “ What makes this worth reading is that Charles has empathy for founders (he’s been one), and will continue to show up as one of their investors in a supportive manner.

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Jordan IP New York Founder 67

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. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns.

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

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. Or, “the banner ads in my market are being served upside down and in Spanish.”. That moment is now.

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Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

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). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Filed under Uncategorized. link] bussgang. Congrats! .

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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Prospectus IPO Cofounder Internet 80

Pascal's View

JULY 1, 2014

Munger completely, while asking the same questions raised by the authors at the end of this article: “The trust-based systems that Munger refers to tend to be founder-led organizations. How much of their success is attributed to the managerial and leadership ability of the founder, and how much to the culture that he or she has created?

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Government Technical Review Venture Capital Leadership 62

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

It has always been difficult to stand-out in a crowded market. Why should you consider adding surprise as a marketing tool in your business? Most customers are surprised to hear from a founder, and even more surprised when the founder encourages them to send an email or pick-up the phone and talk to the founder directly.

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Small Business Netherlands Retention Marketing 117

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

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 26, 2018

According to Investor's Business Daily , even though IPOs in 2018 through July were up nearly 39 percent from last year, the total of 115 companies so far is still nowhere near the rate required to match the yearly total of 486 hit way back in 1999. Most startup founders voluntarily exit or are pushed out, and the fun is gone.

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Exit Strategy IPO Initial Public Offering SEC 128

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Once again, as we find ourselves in the middle of a significant public market correction, especially around technology stocks, there’s an enormous amount of noise in the system, as there always is. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005.

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Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

Our professors were literally rewriting the case studies in real time and my participation in the very first Internet Marketing class the GSB ever offered is a form of carbon dating that conclusively proves my old age. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 All I needed was a job. Absolutely!

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Stock IPO Database Internet 74