Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Prior to joining Oversee, he spent 10 years in executive leadership positions building SaaS-businesses that leveraged the power of the Internet as a platform for growth and efficiency. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2014

in the 1st quarter - the largest number of new issuers since 2000 -raising a total of 11.1 Private Equity. Private equity firms did 850 deals, representing investments of greater than $152 billion (Pitchbook), up 11%. And, as of Monday 54 of the 72 of them were trading above their IPO price. Wrong about the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In order for Frisco to achieve its full vision to be a destination city for VC’s, we have to be part of a larger, statewide network to support our partners and entrepreneur support organizations to help advance our collective and common goals.”

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

in equity & loans which was ultimately worth >170x ($355M) when DEC went public about a decade later. Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the 90s to form what is now Redpoint Ventures (IT team) and Versant Ventures (healthcare team).

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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! Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In the field I was in, I believed I was much better at what I was doing than the folks in a leadership position, and had felt that way for a number of jobs in a row and something had to change. In business, we negotiate with external vendors, suppliers and partners. #8- Pretty simple, I was tired of working for someone else.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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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.”). Company : Untitled Partners.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

It’s rare that I see people like me- that’s to say, black men and women- in leadership positions, and when I do, it’s exhilarating. Add 2000 more and that’s the size of the Austin roster. Now, I’m shifting my energy to helping Leagues who want to do this work and be a partner to their diverse members but don’t know how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

50:17) The Heroes Journey, Joseph Campbell (55:03) The need for human connection in leadership and what Brian hopes former employees will take with them into the world. (56:46) Your customers and your investors like partners? And of course, this is 2000. This one really started getting legs in the late '90s, early 2000s.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% IPO market. 1990-1998 13.3%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. Maybe you want to set aside one percent of your equity for charity, or maybe you want to give some of your profits away, or maybe you want to create a nonprofit, or maybe you want to. You may have suppliers, vendors, partners, and then you have society.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. US CHIPMAKER PMC SIERRA ACQUIRES ISRAELI WINTEGRA.

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