View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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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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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

My own fascination with podcasts began with a warm recommendation from Pablo (founder of Antidote ). In September 2000, the first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched [6] from early MP3 player manufacturer, i2Go. itunes.apple.com.

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

Not only does that company exist, it is Salzburg’s own Authentic Vision —and you will hear more from co-founder Thomas Weiss later this evening when he tells you about his journey as a Salzburg entrepreneur. He published the book Zero to One in 2014.

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Austria Global Silicon Valley Advisory Board 28

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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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

— Mark Suster (@msuster) December 14, 2014. Fortunately Steve Schlenker, co-founder of DN Capital has captured most of them in his Quora answer to the question: How hard is it to be a venture capitalist. NotGlamorous. I’ve seen Mark post a few versions of this tweet over time and wanted to write a post about it.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. We believe that the wrnchAI engine is a unique AI technology that is going to revolutionize how humans and machines co-evolve. We founded wrnch in April 2014, but our collective roots are video games and AI.

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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.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We launched Fundera in February of 2014 this year and it’s been a wonderful experience helping small businesses ever since we started. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Bates: That’s fantastic. Thank you Jared.

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