Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

People looking to drive true change and evolution in the Media Tech sector whether it’s investors, product owners from corporates, or potential partners. 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. In the U.K.

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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. Negotiating was a subset of every activity in a startup – it really was a way of life.

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United States Software Developers Software Development Developer 322

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Let me start by saying two things: Events like this are invaluable to startups because the significant value comes from building the network across portfolio companies and the discussion one can have with your peer group. My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. And market your brand, not your personality.

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PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. My blog was wiped out. But we also had some negative experiences, too.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner. In addition, Michael Yavonditte , CEO of Hashable , is joining as a Venture Partner. Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio 122

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

The larger companies claimed that the cost of replacement and integration was not worth any savings that the enterprise could potentially realize, and that the risk of deploying with a startup was too high for mission critical functions. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These companies can range from tech startups to food trucks to retail stores. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. approx 1999-07. Villalobos & Payne: “Startup Pre-Money Valuation: The Keystone to Return on Investment” 117. approx 2004-09.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup. Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999.

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Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

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. Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented.

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B2C Austin Cofounder IPO 51

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Additionally, women actually lost ground over the past year in terms of actual dollar amount awarded by VCs to women-founded startup; in 2016, women were the recipients of “a smaller piece of the pie than in every year this past decade, with the exception of 2008 and 2012,” according to Fortune. billion received by male-led companies).

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M 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. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. John Kieti is a major figure in the city’s startup community.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. But there was tons of client demand in Europe for Internet projects and very few people with real experience and so my senior partner in the London office was talking about 3 or 4 projects he was considering me for in Europe. Both Tyler & I are Nihon -files.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. ATI is a traditional incubator that helps form and grow up to 30 startup companies at any given time and counts over 200 successful launches over its 20+ years.

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Incubator Technical Review Austin Texas 54

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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Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication Bandwidth 78

OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I’ve been lucky enough to see his career unfold and develop into what it is today, a flourishing coaching business called Inflection Point Partners that helps clients tremendously…and that also feeds Matt’s soul. The post Book Short: New Advice from an Old Friend appeared first on The Startup CEO blog.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

A new survey of startups shows venture capitalists are reasserting themselves in the funding game. The reemergence of traditional VCs can make a big difference in how prospective startups look for funding - and could also signify a bubble. Startups in metropolitan areas whose companies got money from VCs rose to 27.5%, up from 17.1%

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 115

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons &#. I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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Startup Early Stage Demand Channel 389

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He currently has a 1999 strategy. partners to help bring his product to market. In it, I have mapped out a similar project, but with a clear delineation of the segmentation and positioning as well as a go-to-market strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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Spain Entrepreneur India San Francisco 115

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. Startups have to stay fast, flexible, and need valuable partners like crowdSPRING to allow us to focus on our core business. If you could go back, would you do anything differently? If so, what and why?

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Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. Dogpatch was the brainchild of Mike Hirshland , partner at Polaris.

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San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup 285

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

I interned at Mattel in the summer of 1999 so have some light first-person stories about how this company works. “ At the start of the “Barbie” process, Gerwig decided to write the screenplay with her partner, the writer-director Noah Baumbach. Mattel and Warner Bros. insisted on seeing a preview of the script’s contents.

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Jordan IP New York Founder 67

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

As a keen observer of startups over the last 17 years, one of the most remarkable and welcome developments has been the application of scientific method to building startups. In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. They had hit a local maxima.

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Lean Startup Silicon Valley Venture Capital 90

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. First, I’ve teamed up with a few former Return Path colleagues and some amazing investors and partners to start a new company.

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Stealth New York Leadership Founder 62

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The Howdy Austin mural commissioned by Ride|Austin Here is your home page to get started and meet all of the people you need to know to plug into the Austin tech startup scene?—?the Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Austin Texas Cofounder Los Angeles 110

Feld Thoughts

MAY 6, 2019

I’ve been involved in Return Path as an investor since 2001 when Return Path and Veripost merged as part of a funding done by Sutter Hill (Greg Sands), Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson), and Mobius Venture Capital (me). As Fred says, “entrepreneurship and startup investing is a long game.

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Idaho New York Venture Capital Partner 91

David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? CEO: Ideally a successful serial entrepreneur who has taken a startup from Series A all the way to an exit. You must have experience in a startup environment, e.g., launching a new business line or working for a fast-growth company.

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Cofounder New York Venture Capital B2C 133

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. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. Miller had several points of advice for new startups looking to go enterprise in LA. Miller noted.

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Cloud Southern California Los Angeles New York City 118

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. They called the partner in America responsible for the project, Grieg Coppe, put him on the phone and he said, “what the hell are you doing there?” I left Accenture a year before making Partner. I built two startup companies and sold both of them. Ok, maybe I was.

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Japan Chicago Europe South America 253

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2010

I founded Coremetrics in 1999 to bring accountability and insight into the emerging world of eCommerce, and Bazaarvoice was built from the ground up to offer the most robust analytics capabilities available in the social commerce arena,” said Brett Hurt, founder and CEO of Bazaarvoice. In this economic age, ROI matters more than ever.”.

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Social Media Analytics Software Review Austin 59

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

If there were an easy answer to this question, then more startups would exist, and the cry for innovation from financial “talking heads” as a cure for America’s current malaise would finally subside. Creating a new startup is not an easy task by any means. by Tom Cleveland, SmallBusinessLoansDirect.com.

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Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A little over a year ago, he joined Techstars full time as one of the three managing partners – the other two being David Cohen and Mark Solon. Like many other startups, it had many ups and downs but the David’s created a very successful, profitable business that was acquired by ZOLL (a Boston-based public company) in 1999.

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Boston Cofounder Partner Leadership 137

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Startups such as Shopkick offered real time deals when users were in stores and Shopsavvy and similar mobile price comparison tools from Amazon and Google empowered consumers to find the best deals. As of year-end, Foursquare had over 15 million users, with an exponential growth rate globally.

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Technical Review India Mobile Hockey Stick 110