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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Kalanick, former investor BFF turned highly disappointed by founder behavior. Usually the founders duke it out among themselves as to titles and responsibilities and relative shareholdings. If you are the lead founder, if behooves you to sort all this out and get started with a clean organization. How about your Investors ?

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. 14 – Concept Behind the Business Model.

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