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.

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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. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. This post originally ran on TechCrunch. You feel it, too. That may be.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

Venture Capital Feels the Stock Market’s Pain, Wall Street Journal. 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. VC funds invested about $47.5

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. I never hire job hoppers. You’re a startup founder. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. You start fighting with your co-founder whom you thought you understood. That’s OK.

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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. Customer acquisition, fund raising, hiring the right person… the list goes on. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation Ltd with over 25-years proven track record in entrepreneurship. So what do you do? You learn from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 11, 2014

Taking stock of the last twelve months emphasized two things for me. First, how excited we are about the founders we’ve backed and how easy that makes working hard on their behalf. We back plenty of first time founders. Betting on people prematurely can also be a great hiring strategy.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I often take stock in lieu of cash. I have a file drawer full of worthless stock certificates and I continue to add to it. Not all start-up stock is created equally. what kind of stock you are getting. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack. what kind of stock you are getting. Good point.

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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? Fred Ehrsam , his co-founder, is also incredible.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . We’re a crossover fund.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

So I decided to become an Entrepreneur and start my own company for people who wanted to learn about trading in the Stock Market. By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Under their agreement, if the debtor company couldn’t pay the money back within six months, the lender could buy stock in the company at a 40 percent discount. Juliette Gust is the founder of Ethics Suite , a platform for employees in the restaurant and hospitality industries to report employer misconduct without getting into trouble.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees. Long term is not a year.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

But stock indexes continue to slide and the unemployment numbers are getting worse. 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. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Founded by Michael Bruno in Paris in 2001, 1stdibs (*) is the world’s largest online marketplace for luxury one-of-a-kind antiques, high-end modern furniture, vintage fashion, jewelry, and fine art. The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). annual GMV.

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