Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Replay the event.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I got involved shortly after it was founded in 2004 and became the board chair in 2005 (which I served as until I resigned all my non-profit board positions at the end of last year.) NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) has long been a hidden gem of Boulder.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Reach $125 billion in sales by 2000.” My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

After CB Insights’ investigation yielded such an alarming figure of failure, the company decided to compile more than 100 post mortem letters from different startup founders to discover the reason for the failures. Many times during the execution of a project, the founders and the team begin to doubt about the sacrifices they must make.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Panelists Adam Berk, founder Neigh*borrow Adam Black, founder KeyWifi Jeff Stewart, founder Lenddo / Mimeo Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons, The New School Moderated by Roo Rogers, President of Redscout Ventures, and Co-Author of What’s Mine Is Yours. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election. Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? All viral adoption starts with one thing – great content. That’s what JibJab focused on. I hadn’t seen this before.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. There was also no hardware to make small videos at the same pace as the mid 2000’s. This is a contentious circle for some as some investors rely on the tenacity and vision of the founders over technical abilities.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

& Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. INVESTMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON THE ISRAEL-MENA AXIS. Apply here. Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

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