Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. That is a great opportunity for Booth students.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

At the same time, I was beginning to realize that the Internet was fundamentally different from closed, proprietary online services like CompuServe or eWorld. Because of the Internet — and especially because of the World Wide Web — things were starting to move very quickly in Silicon Valley in 1995. Trust your allies too.

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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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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. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We But somehow Lagos works.

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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. But that’s not when I learned the lesson.

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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 set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

It is basically a return to the type of VC that was done 20 years ago long before the craziness of the Internet boom that skewed things so greatly. This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. I could obviously go on.

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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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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. A number of the funds we studied use an origination approach that allows them to proactively co-create companies or opportunities. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing.

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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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

when you missed your targets, when your co-founder quit, when the competition chose your competitor or when the other investors around the table lost confidence? My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Nobody wanted anything to do with Internet companies. When the world was ending? After Sept 11th? After Sept 08?

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. 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.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

How founders cope with startup challenges was the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. 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. And world-class entrepreneurs never quit. Jessica Mah.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. In the midst of the internet & telecom meltdown at the beginning of the 2000s, as a firm CRV realized there were insufficient opportunities to profitably invest $1.2B.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders. So this has always been our most significant focus area, whether in 2022, 2021, or 2001. .

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf , a creative marketplace connecting mobile and Web projects with vetted, handpicked developers and designers from around the world. An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator. And the third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. 2001) iPod 1st generation.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001. Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. That’s it. That’s what we do.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I talked about creative disruption and how many significant companies would be formed as a result of this (not dissimilar to what I saw in Silicon Valley while investing post 2001 crash). Media outlets, from Mashable to the Wall Street Journal, didn’t think it was an interesting story at the time and it went unpublished.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The decision was primarily being driven by myself and one of my co-workers named Mary. If you are the founder or "chief geek" in your small ISV, take a careful, honest, and objective look at yourself. Yes, yes, I have two obvious counterexamples right here among my co-workers. Copyright 2001-2011 Eric Sink. startupcto

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

In October of 2001, Webster, McCarthy, and Graff decided to do just that and GoldStar was born. Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. Back in 2001 I worked with a consultant who was a developer when times were really good, and a trainer when times were really bad.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

From basement to boardroom…back to basement, she is now a co-founder, investor and CMO of Dasheroo , business dashboards for every business in the world. She also founded VerticalResponse (now a Deluxe company), provider of online marketing services to small business in 2001 and was the CEO until it was acquired in 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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