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. By 2002 the NASDAQ had fallen by nearly 80%. Because we know that this is the time for founders everywhere to step forward, not backward. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. It’s OK to be scared. You must be nuts.

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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 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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Agile VC

DECEMBER 4, 2014

I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder. But not all co-founders are equal in terms of title, ownership, responsibilities, and so forth. Sometimes co-founders put off the equity split question for some time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale."

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Thanks Lee.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak. These growth rounds may be more dilutive than planned, but will still occur without punitive terms and allow founders, teams, and early investors to emerge with very successful outcomes at the very end.

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2014

Exit strategies related to startup funding are quite often misunderstood: The “exit” in exit strategy is for the money, not the startup founders or small business owners. And that scenario, while it can be very good for the founders, is terrible for the investors. The exit is what gives them a return.

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deal architect

JUNE 25, 2013

In The New Technology Elite, I cited a 2002 anecdote where Steve Jobs is supposed to have told Dan Wood, founder of Karelia Software, then a partner “You know those handcars, the little machines that people stand on and pump. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002. Anyone remember the web hosting rollup? Or the ASP rollup?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The company’s founder started his business entrepreneurship at only 25 years old and has built and sold many businesses since. Established in 2002, Synergy Business Brokers helps smaller businesses with annual revenue of $700,000 and $4 million. Digital Exits. Another leading company in the industry is Digital Exits.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). We followed Eric’s adventure as founder and CEO at RockMelt as he worked through the roller coaster of a startup.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( These small groups in confidential settings help dynamic female founders collectively ask questions for feedback to solve difficult issues when growing revenue.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. It was one of the most personalized and well-tailored in-kind experiences of the agency’s history, and this was just one of the many generous contributions IBM has bestowed upon Latinitas over the years.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. Your founders and the leadership team represent your brand offline, so why not do the same thing online?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. In 2017, Rocheli Patisserie received Austin Woman Magazine’s 2017 Business Way Award for Rising Stars.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Yes, there are a few self-taught naturals, like Bubba Watson, and, uh…Sam Snead (1912–2002). My recent years have included many thousands of hours of mentoring, coaching, advising, teaching, and encouraging startup founders with prospective ventures across a wide range of disciplines.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He's the founder of GrubHub and he founded in his spare bedroom and grew it to a multi billion dollar online food delivery. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans.

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VC Cafe

MAY 26, 2022

In his second book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (originally published in 2002), Lencioni adopts the winning formula of sharing management/coaching advice in the form of a fable/story, which sucks you into the story and its cast of characters while delivering key principles, many borrowed from team sports.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” The narrative of this discussion is something like this: I meet a 35-40-year-old founder with two kids and mortgage.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

Department of Commerce & the Minority Business Development Agency, between 2002 and 2007, diverse-owned firms outpaced the growth of non-diverse firms in gross receipts and employment. Women-owned businesses, according to the Forte Foundation represent about 775,000 new startups per year. According to the U.S. for non-diverse firms.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. He invested in a new division in his company in 2009 and has expanded significantly since then.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on 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. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This environment allowed Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, to build a modern day conglomerate: an Internet platform providing commerce, entertainment and financial services to a middle class that numbers over 300 million (and expected to reach nearly 1 billion in the next 20 years).

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

by Chris Low is the founder of MyTeamPlan. In 2002, Hewlett Packard signed a merger agreement with Compaq that would bring together the computer hardware businesses of the two businesses, each with revenues of over $40 billion. So between 2002 and 2007, Compaq continued to use their logo with little change.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Once you are able to achieve some real “traction” with your business (paying customers, revenue stream), it may seem the time to relax a bit, but in fact this is the point where many founders start to flounder. Most founders form very close relationships with the small team that gets the startup off the ground, and that is important.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

In some cases, these rounds were with experienced founders who had previously had a success and could dictate terms. In this six month period, the need for an experienced founder vanished. By 2002 investments at the seed level had evaporated (there were almost no seed financings happening).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on 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. Ryan Smith. Lane Merrifield.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. He’s the #1 LinkedIn Influencer of all time in page views, ahead of Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Mark Cuban, and President Barack Obama.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Since its founding in 2002, Musk’s SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) has been at the forefront in the conceptualization and manufacture of efficient space rockets. Named after Alan B.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 6, 2020

Micro Case Study: One of the greatest examples of a successful guerrilla marketing tactic I have ever heard was from Pinterest founder, Ben Silbermann. Another really great example of this tactic was in 2002 when Sony hired actors to walk around cities and ask strangers to take selfies with them.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

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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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

by Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! But in 2002, Anytime Fitness succeeded by introducing just a couple of fresh components – 24/7/365 access for members and convenient locations in neighborhood strip malls. Ken Burke is founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! Anytime Fitness Pumps Up an Old Concept.

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