David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

VCAP© will be operated through NAIC’s subsidiary, The Marathon Foundation, a business development network that supports entrepreneurial growth, access to capital and deal flow. The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms.

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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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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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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. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes. The efficiency gain is tremendous.

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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. Maria’s dad started Donn’s Bar-B-Que 35 years ago and Maria now co-operates the business alongside her parents.

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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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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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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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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate. What the big studies have shown. Image source ).

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

It is my belief that without a doubt blockchain and in particular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are going to play a massive role in the day to day working lives of entrepreneurs and founders of various tech & non-tech related startups and businesses. It’s almost happening already. Photo Credit: Rio Rocket. 7- Identity verification.

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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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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. While my world started to settle down in mid-2002, the rest of Mobius started to more aggressively fall apart. There was no joy anywhere.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). I still think it is the best chapter of any book on marketing that I’ve ever read. Bazaarvoice, literally translated, means “the voice of the marketplace”.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. What we need is some middle class-out economics, some bottom-up economics.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. Insomnia Cookies.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters. Focus on well being.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. FWIW, that is not how we operate.). technical co-founder). Tweet this.). Moving to a new geography.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Drayton is the founder and current chair of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an organization that is dedicated to finding and helping social entrepreneurs around the world. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, an institution that provides microcredit loans to those in need to help them develop financial self-sufficiency.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

There’s been ample coverage in the popular press of course highlighting everything from the company’s revenue growth, lack of profitability, and the well-publicized fact that founder/CEO Jack Dorsey is also CEO of Twitter so would theoretically be running two public companies simultaneously. Given the unit economics above (e.g.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Can you become a founder by watching videos? Perhaps, but founders are closer to artists than any other profession. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Konga is another investor darling.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. Naming a Business.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

When we bought the flooded, abandoned building that we’d restore and open as the *Elkhorn Inn* in 2002, we had basically one day to come up with our company name to meet a WV tourism deadline, and so named it for Elkhorn Creek which runs behind the building. Thanks to Devoreaux Walton, Distinct Personal Branding ! #10-

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. So, if you were the founder of a green energy startup in Sydney, Australia, you would Google “green energy business incubator in Sydney, Australia.”.

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Bryce Dot VC

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Back in 2002 I was a nobody analyst at a small Salt Lake City VC firm most people had never heard of. At that point, Brett had transitioned out of a day to day operating roles and was a full time dad and angel investor. That year my boss introduced me to his former boss at Excite, Brett Bullington.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: What part of AfterDownload’s operation is browser plugin monetization? Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: What part of AfterDownload’s operation is browser plugin monetization? Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe: What part of AfterDownload’s operation is browser plugin monetization? Want to get an introduction to the founders? VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. Guest author Bernard Lunn is a serial entrepreneur and business adviser to start-ups and is ReadWriteWeb's former Chief Operating Officer. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

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. Thanks to Ethan Warren, Corner Piece Productions ! #7

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I started in my guest room in Q4, 2002 which was a brutal time in our economy following the dot com busts. As the founder, my leadership focus is to make sure our team knows about what has worked (and hasn’t) over 10 years and what makes up the BrightWave DNA. BrightWave Marketing is North America’s leading email marketing agency.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

At the same time, I wanted to make sure the name is unique and available – that is to ensure no other businesses are already operating under that name. When I started the business in 2002 we mainly sold portable air cooling and heating products. Thanks to Julie Ann Wood, E-seedling LLC ! #10- 10- Memorable name.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Sagefrog Marketing Group, LLC was founded in 2002 as a two-person enterprise through the merger of two existing entities. When I first started ThirdShift, I owned and operated two other businesses – a computer training company and an online store for educational products. Thanks to Tom McPhillips, ATOMIC Design, Inc. ! #4-

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BeyondVC

APRIL 26, 2004

Robertson, our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, as payment in full of all remaining outstanding amounts under a revolving line of credit. Mr. Robertson has advanced us funds under the line of credit since July 2002, including advances of $5,600,000 during 2004.

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