Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth. When there is a great fit, I love seeing our portfolio companies make acquisitions. Todd and Eric have been friends of mine for a long time.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Hopefully we will see you there! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

Technical Review 85

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Again, really what we’re very much focused on, how does this team become as good as it possibly can be to face the challenges what environment demands from them?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. A team of one is brittle, but fast. Then finally, after (say) four months, they’re up to speed. At scale, it becomes required. Materiality Threshold.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

What I worry about is the demand on every one of your potential customer’s attention and time. Long story short, it’s just not 2000's anymore. As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one. Competition is everywhere. The quality bar has never been higher.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

The stories of growing a team, then teams of teams, of the personal dynamics, the changes in processes and demands, the shifts in roles and goals of everyone including myself, how that’s navigated, the trials and tribulations there — all these stories are invaluable and instructive but they are not mine to share.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Joining me at the Stanford University studio were: Matthew Wallenstein , chairman and co-founder of Growcentia , which aims to revolutionize management of soil health to help crops grow better and faster. Jason Young , co-founder of MindBlown Labs , which makes mobile social games to teach young adults about personal finance.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

Silicon Valley 42

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. The company quickly realized that its initial commercial product was in huge demand – they had reached product-market fit nirvana. Scaling Akamai – Part 1: A Little Fat. 2,414). .

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

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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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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

But I’m not sure that the consumer awareness and consumer demand is really there from a chat bot perspective. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me. However, I think at this point not only is the technology a little bit too nascent to really kind of sink your teeth into.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. Most marketers are still transitioning out of brand-based marketing, and picking up new skills related to demand generation as well as leveraging content to attract the ideal customers to their brands.

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David Cohen

APRIL 3, 2013

Tv with on demand movies will help on this flight as will power for the itouch. the school is an old factory that is a labor of love of the founder and principal. some of the buildings there house displays of artifacts including some that are over 2000 years old. From sfo we get our connection direct to Beijing. lots of video.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Then they move into demanding a person who demanded excellence of himself and others around him. I mean, there a lot of people that felt absolutely very demanding. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there. To put everything I’d learned through my SocialNet experience into another shot on goal as a founder. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing? It was 1999.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The women to follow are CEOs, career experts, coaches, and entrepreneurs who are all familiar with the challenges that moms (and dads, too) face when trying to balance the demands of their careers with the responsibilities of being a parent. Maria Bailey : Maria Bailey knows a thing or two about maintaining work/life balance.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners). Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class.

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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.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Sergey Brin – Co-founder of ‘Google’. Ben Cohen – Co-founder of ‘Ben & Jerry’s’. The co-founder of one of the most loved ice cream brands started off with nothing but a correspondence in ice cream making and $14,000. They’re very demanding, regardless of background.”. Net Worth – $34.3

Small Business 40

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. With marketplaces, the entrepreneur has to worry not just about building supply and demand but that they also happen to exist simultaneously.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. Last year, we predicted it would take three years for Europe to mark its first Decacorn.

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Europe Cloud Valuation 71

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Investors are the “who’s who” including: Steve Case, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey, Dave Morin, Betaworks, Founder Collective, AOL Ventures. - $1 million seed round. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. TechCrunch article.

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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.” Josh Cohen is the CEO and founder of Junkluggers. What’s a BHAG?

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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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