Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Mastering your pitch to a VC, prospective customers, new hires or partners is part art and part science. When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. Talk about passion and commitment!

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Uh, so I literally had to walk the entire city of Chicago and the entire city of San Francisco and pick up every single menu. And so when that revenue tripled and suddenly I was like, Oh, I can hire people to help me, like this thing is gonna work. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Within a year I hired 92 permanent staff and another 30 full time contractors. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We hired a new executive management team that had to be stormed, normed and performed. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

but most are coalescing around the Palo Alto – San Mateo – San Francisco center of the universe. Larry Ellison in 2002 came out and gave a speech and said the correct model for enterprise software, enterprise computing, will last for 1,000 years. Some of these next big startups are in L.A.,

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. Then I’d hire a team to help manage the infrastructure of all these startups. My first “major tour” was in California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco for five speaking gigs. Here’s the problem. you are Midas after all.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

And initially it was a disease that was thought to be rare, was going to be seen mainly in New York and San Francisco. I ran the group from 1995 through 2002, which was an incredibly exciting period of time, during which time the so-called cocktails developed. This disease was first noted in China. Not going to happen here."

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