Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. They make terrible employees. Look at some of the uber-successful icons of Silicon Valley / Technology: Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Larry/Sergey, Eric Schmidt, Andy Groves, John Doerr. You’re a startup founder.

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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. My favourite was the quote below: Most important, the opportunity for innovation remains vast.

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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

That first real job was as the first employee of Petcom, a company started by a husband and wife team that grew to about 20 people before the oil and gas market for software evaporated in 1985. I was president of my first company (Feld Technologies). My partner Dave was vice president.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors. We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

And 2) Does your internal market, your employees and suppliers, trust you? How does FedEx’s Fred Smith manage 290,000 worldwide employees, who move more than 3 trillion packages in a year? Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell said, “If you don’t have an emotionally engaging design, no one will care.”. PILLAR 3: Teamwork.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. The future of e-commerce in Nigeria and Africa may also pivot on the use of drone technology. But somehow Lagos works.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. I have been in and around technology for over ten years. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders.

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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. I think many business owners who started as solopreneurs can likely relate to this, as it can be an awkward transition from being a one-person business to being a business with contractors, or even employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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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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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. 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. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. The Wall Street Journal.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. One of those employees was a friend of mine, and when I heard him talk about what was going on there, I sometimes thought to myself, “Maybe I should try to get a job there too.” And how do you do that? Relationships matter.

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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. It’s also why I support making early exercise available to your seed/A employees at the very least.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Matt shares his story and give some great insight on hiring the right employees for your company. Matt is also passionate about leading edge technologies. She started her first business, a handmade jewelry company, in 2001, where she learned that an MBA doesn’t even begin to prepare you for life as an entrepreneur. Show Summary.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I sent notes to my clients, thanking them for their business, notes to my employees for all of their support over the years, and notes to HelloWorld directors, for their trust in purchasing my company. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Thanks to Alexi Venneri, Digital Air Strike ! #6)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? Eric Ries : It's written on every employee badge, you were just mentioning.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. We work with non-profits, for-profits, US Government, and international organizations, to identify the underlying goals, the users needs and abilities, and put together an appropriate technology solution to meet the requirements.

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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 Make the Move From Big-Business Employee to Small-Business Owner – [link].

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Many Israeli companies build technologies which could be very valuable to the broader Middle East region, particularly in water tech, agriculture technology, and cybersecurity. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. I thought others might be interested in my list. Apply here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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