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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Feed the left by working on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and be the only one geeking out about an Access database to track guests. companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 Absolutely!

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The BSList - Busted Cap Table (No. 104)

This is going to be BIG.

Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. All they’re doing is filling a database. Now that we’ve established that, let’s talk about founder blind spots. That doesn’t make you a bad founder. Did you spot it? Think of it this way.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 2: Anand Sanwal and Chris Shipley

Steve Blank

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. I think there were 68 companies at one point in the database buyer’s guide. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Eye on the Prize.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.

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Beyond Lead Gen: How To Optimize B2B Sales Enablement

ConversionXL

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Examples: Database apps like data.com , Hoover’s , Zoominfo , Prospect intelligence apps like Linkedin Sales Navigator and Charlie App. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement.

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