om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

But I am attracted to those who have had severe set-backs in life because it tells you something about the mettle of the person with whom you’re dealing. It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. But I’ve been thinking a lot about failure in the past year or so.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2011

by Oliver Wilkinson , founder of SSL247 and co-founder of jobiso.fr. As a big believer in young business talent, I’d like to share some tips – learned through experience – about honing your skills as an entrepreneur. The difference between us is just action – I acted on my ideas, he didn’t. So… go and start something!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP). I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

How many founders are too many? You are the founder, the visionary, the uber-entrepreneur. VCs don’t fund sole founders and, if you are alone, you’ve either got too much ego or you can’t convince someone to join you. Two” – You have to have three founders. Decisions – as a founder you want to make a decision and go.

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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. But how do you go about selecting and nurturing team members for maximum efficiency? Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. Be very clear about goals and boundaries.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

by Rob Bellenfant, founder and CEO of TechnologyAdvice. You may have also noticed that agile methodology — which was once thought to be only for software developers — is now being used just about everywhere, from construction to marketing, human resources, manufacturing, and even wedding planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. I spoke about a lot of things during the keynote. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. In 2001, the towers were hit. They all took a chance on us. I’m not talking about the short term opportunity to take advantage of market conditions. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. It’s OK to be scared.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. Why Tim Cook Is the New Steve Ballmer.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights. Why Tim Cook Is the New Steve Ballmer.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Everyone always talks about Steve Jobs and Apple but my vote now goes to Reed Hastings at Netflix. Noah teaches us that the world is full of business opportunities. The founders eventually created custom cereal boxes to raise funds so they could continue to operate. 5- Jack Ma founder of Alibaba. 1- Reed Hastings.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Deprived of source material, journalists wrote articles about articles.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Deprived of source material, journalists wrote articles about articles.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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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. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. 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.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Everyone always talks about Steve Jobs and Apple but my vote goes to Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. Tell us in the comments below. 1- Arianna Huffington. Photo Credit: Paige Arnof-Fenn. Those two pivots ended up being Flickr and Slack.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has about 57% of the voting power. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. link] [link] --> By JOANN S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” We had people hearing through the grapevine that we were about to raise money and new investors started calling us to get in on the deal. I lived through this again September 2001. What can you do about it?

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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. I know how the flowers felt.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Here are three common myths about startups: Myth #1: All new companies are startups. Every year, millions of US companies are launched, but only a few can be considered startups. When Johnny Earle, the founder of Johnny Cupcakes, started in 2001, he didn’t make baked goods; he sold t-shirts about baked goods!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

First I should mention that we’re trying to shake up real estate commissions in NYC which have remained stubbornly high despite an average Manhattan sale price of about $2 million. Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I saved all of my receipts, but didn’t think about a name.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. This question runs from about minute 2 – minute 8. We will continue to do more of this.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

VC funds invested about $47.5 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. Remote hires represent the majority in the US in H1 2022. How bad can it get?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. this post is all about the resilience required to keep going as an entrepreneur, not as an angel investor. But I digress?—?this

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I was having conversations with an entrepreneur and then a group of high school students this week about the ridiculous myth of entrepreneurs being risk-takers that “just jump off the cliff and build their wings to fly on the fall down”. Yes, of course entrepreneurs are brave as I wrote about in The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #5.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Paths to $5M for a startup founder – [link]. How the bathroom can teach us a lesson about right vs. pragmatic – [link].

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. Tell us your story. Tell us about your products and services.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Just ask anybody who was trying to close funding the fateful week of September 11, 2001 or even March 2000. The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. First, they don’t want to have the cat-and-mouse discussions about valuation. So it’s easier to just pass.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 Along with longtime partners like Warby Parker, Ella and the VisionSpring team are making it their priority to use their immense resources for this unprecedented fight. Tell us your story. Tell us about your products and services.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Magazine ranked his company among the top 50 retail companies in the US. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick. He was 14 years old at the time. Peter Gylfe.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Intro/Dan Bio: Welcome to Building The Machine, a show about people building the “machine” inside organizations to help grow their businesses. 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.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. There will be a recovery and we need to be prepared for it. Survey design.

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