Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. I looked in the worldwide directory to find the partner in charge of the project who happened to be based in San Francisco. They also knew that I was from NorCal, which in 1999 was a huge bonus to foreign companies thinking about Internet strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?” I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2012

Another survey ( download PDF ) of Silicon Valley VCs by University of San Francisco professor of entrepreneurship Mark Cannice, shows VC confidence up significantly in the first quarter, to 3.7 on Cannice’s five-point scale, from 3.27 the previous quarter.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. Location: San Francisco. Also, many of these companies were built with heavy doses of advertising spend, a clear red-flag in our book. Company: Stitch Fix. Website: www.stitchfix.com.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. As an example, we estimate that ride-sharing revenues in San Francisco are well north of 10X what taxis and black cars were providing prior to the launch of ride-sharing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

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 has offices in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco where it houses more than 35 companies (about 50 people per location if I remember correctly).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog).

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 23, 2012

” - @Scobleizer [link] “Welcome to San Francisco, you are now an entrepreneur! Which start-up T-shirt would you like?” - @nickbilton [link] “Now we have the chance to build the businesses that we thought we were going to build in 1999.” Over the freaky line, if you will. But it is coming.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008). Provides electronic book services for content publishers; services include digital scanning and conversion, distribution to leading e-book retailers, monetization and royalty management.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. Guest author and public speaker Michael Tchong is the founder of Social Revolution , a San Francisco-based change agency, which seeks to transform the future through innovation and reinvention. Accelerators are also booming.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

It was 1999. People were coming from all over the world to the San Francisco Bay Area to stake out a claim on this incredibly powerful new platform for enabling human activity. Like I said earlier, relationships matter. Where there had once been a recession, there was suddenly a dot-com boom. New jobs were being created.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

In 1969, The Gap was founded in San Francisco as a record store that also happened to sell jeans. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. The company has still remained somewhat true to their roots, continuing to create consumer goods including diapers, toothpaste, detergent, and personal hygiene items. billion in September 2011.

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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.) April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. Im Anil Dash, and Ive blogged half a million words here since 1999, writing about how culture is made. I can talk about "discourse-based decision support system" til the cows come home, c/w references to cognitive ergonomics and "helmet fire".

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Founded in 1999, AeroScout’s products are used in hospitals to track patients and blood products, such as organs; to manage and monitor equipment in universities; and to keep tabs on products throughout the manufacturing process. Based in San Francisco, California, the fund operates worldwide. Burrill already manages $1.5

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. The question is why?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Eric Ries, San Francisco, December 2012 If you want to read more, you can find an excerpt of Chapter 6, Viability Experiments here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

After I left the military, I ended up in Palo Alto, a town south of San Francisco. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. Eighteen months after arriving in Thailand, I was managing a group of 15 electronics technicians. I had just turned 20 years old.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. Talk about a business with humble roots.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Hambrecht and Quist (based in San Francisco) which was one of four investment banks that catered to the entrepreneurs and VC-backed companies through the late 1990’s. It is important to note that using the one-day gains of “hot IPOs” to either attract new customers or wildly please the ones you already have is not a new concept.

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. I actually started a book-publishing company in my college dorm room in … 1999. Including San Francisco Ghosts, Clouds over Mexico, and Bronx Mobsters – oh my. The judges then asked me some questions about publishing. No problem.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

My favorite San Francisco shops each have a unique aesthetic style, despite the similarities in how they may approach third wave coffee. Those that have been in the Bay Area for a while may remember the 1999 Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA. As a venture capitalist, I drink a lot of coffee.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 2, 2011

Since at least 1999 people have been saying that, finally, this was the year of mobile and sure enough, 2009 may have finally been legitimately the year of mobile… which only proves that it is best to say the “year of&# without actually pinning oneself down to a specific year. 1/3 of San Francisco parks on the street every night.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , ” Entire cities, like San Francisco and Austin have committed to generating “Zero Waste,” reducing their landfill waste to 10 percent or less within the next 6-20 years. He now also owns AYD (At Your Disposal) Waste Services in Austin, Texas.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. " Listen.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. Hundreds of startups will succeed in this world over the next few years, like all the mobile app companies over the past 5 years. Some of these next big startups are in L.A.,

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