Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

That option involved trying to get a job at a young Silicon Valley company that had just gone public and would, in a few short years, crash and burn, lay off everyone, and quickly fade into oblivion. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. Yes, I passed up all that.

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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 I achieved ‘ Silicon Valley Middle Class ’ wealth status. 04/share if I’m recalling correctly.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. Google also unveiled plans to double its NYC employee base to 14k. Look at 2001 and 2008’s Lehman collapse and Sequoia RIP Good Times deck for lessons learned.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

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. Why do job hoppers make such bad employees at startups? -. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2020

The Economic Antidote to COVID-19 Eric Ries & Ryan Beck In 2001, Apple's revenue fell by 33% in the depths of the dotcom bust. But as competitors try to minimize losses by laying off employees, quitting partnerships, or halting production, great companies maximize long-term value by investing in the levers of sustainable growth.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

Over the past few months, many journalists have begun to ask the question that no one really wants to hear; “Is Silicon Valley in another technology bubble?” Silicon Valley thrives on optimism, and anyone waving the bubble flag is auditioning for the title of nonbeliever or party pooper. And this is not it.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, his hook was: “What if you could put a thousand songs in your pocket?” After “ Toy Story” came out in 1995 and was declared a huge success, employees wondered if Pixar would try its hand at making live-action movies as well. This was unheard of. Stories deliver smart lessons.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. How do you deal well with investors, with customers, with employees, with your colleagues? “This is the West, sir.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Well known founders within Silicon Valley demanded this kind of change across the board, and if they wanted to see it internally, they also had to see it within the organizations that touched their group. I've been in venture now twice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Marty: Were your own first investment ventures a positive and learning experience?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. Eric Ries : It's written on every employee badge, you were just mentioning. Every one of you listening probably have employees, or will, you have shareholders, you have customers or guests. What is an employee? Brian Chesky : Yes, exactly.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its chaos and insanity melds into a working city that was predicted by the architect Rem Koolhaas (with the Harvard Project on the City) in the 2001 book Mutations when he said that Lagos was a city of the future and one that Western cities would eventually base themselves on. But somehow Lagos works. Slowly overcoming its reputation.

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Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

—————————————– I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. Myth number 4.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

I’ve been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. Silicon Valley and New York City startups pay significantly more than startups in Austin and Washington, D.C.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Sure, I wrote about startups all the time, but my work experience with a classic Silicon Valley-styled startup was non-existent. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time. STARTING IT UP.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Conventional wisdom says that you can only build big businesses in Silicon Valley so as a VC you need to be there. Some of the biggest wins of the past 5 years were built outside of the Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. 2)&# it’s not fair to the rest of the employees who don’t get to take money out. And importantly you start thinking about your next gig. That’s when the VC has lost.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are unbelievably lucky to be here right now, with a team of über-talented people from the best and brightest Silicon Valley companies, at a moment when what a book should be is morphing before our very eyes. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We cut all 30 contractors immediately.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Smart, capable managers would not hesitate to make decisions instead of allowing their employees to make them. This left very smart employees feeling very frustrated because their managers would interfere intermittently and at random moments. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. 29:45 minutes.

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