YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

by Oliver Wilkinson , founder of SSL247 and co-founder of jobiso.fr. Oliver Wilkinson is based in London, England and is the owner/founder of Europe’s largest SSL reseller – SSL247 – plus is co-founder of France’s first disruptive online recruitment company, jobiso.fr.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved. What is the Best Practice Institute? What is its mission?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas. Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Is this fair?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

That perfectly describes how 2001 felt to me. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.) By mid-2001 I think all of these stocks were sub-$1 sotcks and – if they weren’t – they would be soon.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2019

We initially launched in Germany before expanding into the UK and France, and then sold the company to our North American competitor AbeBooks in 2001. My co-founder Hannes Blum and I joined the AbeBooks HQ and co-led the company for many years until we sold it to Amazon in 2008.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics. There are so many founders and entrepreneurs that openly write about their own failures so learning from others is increasingly easy. He’s also the founder and former CEO of iSuppli Corporation. Learn from other people’s mistakes – Neil Patel.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

The first post was sent to me by Josh McClure, the co-founder and CEO of Real Massive, who I first referenced in my Lucky7 post about Lola Savannah. You would be wise to read and internalize this PandoDaily post about “startup drugs” by Andy Dunn , co-founder and CEO of Bonobos. I saw this movie in Silicon Valley?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Source: Pexels.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Patience & Persistence – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

The Economist talked about “ Venture capital’s reckoning “ and why despite the crisis in the market, and the large number of layoffs in the market, this crisis will not be like the dot com bust in 2001. It cites 3 reasons for that: 1.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 VisionSpring was founded in 2001 with the goal of reaching and providing affordable, quality glasses to the 2.5 The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) At Mobius, we invested in Vytek, another company Len co-founded. Len loved to smoke a cigar.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. You see, it was for work I’d performed from 2001–2003 at a startup called Linden Lab, the company behind virtual world Second Life. And why we work with the founders we back to make sure there’s enough equity set aside to make great hires.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation Ltd with over 25-years proven track record in entrepreneurship. He started his business from scratch and grew it into a public-listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2001. So what do you do? You can enroll for the seminar here.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 VisionSpring was founded in 2001 with the goal of reaching and providing affordable, quality glasses to the 2.5 The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2001, in conjunction with the Russian Space Agency, American entrepreneurs Peter Diamindis, Eric C. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Joe Carlen is the co-founder of Value Guards, LLC and a practitioner of business valuation, patent valuation, and market assessment. Certainly, the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) My foundational moment, where I really learned the lesson, happened during the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 and 2001. My first moment with this was Black Monday in 1987.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Premium-brand market leaders [.] Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I recession in 2009.”.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen. We had this mission.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns. I could obviously go on.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2018

Herb Kelleher, our founder, led the way clearly — although I don’t think he knew what the expression servant leadership meant until we told him. Covey, cofounder of CoveyLink and the FranklinCovey Global Speed of Trust Practice, author of “ The Speed of Trust “, and coauthor of “ Smart Trust “).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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