Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. In 2005, SETI@home changed its software: instead of the old SETI@home Classic they started using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing , or BOINC for short — a software framework that enables volunteers to participate in projects other than SETI@home.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. Sorry, brah.”

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. million in 2005. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. It wasn’t until Millard Drexler, former Gap Inc. Drexler is credited for saving J.

Bankruptcy 195

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 7, 2011

Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby, recently stopped by the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast and recounted a story of his now famous package insert. Do you send out automated follow-ups that beg to be ignored?

Small Business 63

Small Business Marketing Portland Social Media 63

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media.

Small Business 54

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 54

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2011

I had a great conversation recently with Derek Sivers , founder of CDBaby and author of Anything You Want. jepoirrier via Flickr It’s not that the owner’s thinking is flawed, it’s that most of knowledge, mission, vision and basic how to do stuff stays locked up there.

Small Business 60

Small Business Marketing Social Media Programming 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction.

Small Business 53

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 53

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.

Lean 54

Lean Small Business RSS Marketing 54

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

Small Business 52

Small Business Marketing North America Social Media 52

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Lisa Barone Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc and writes for the Outspoken Media Blog. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

Web 52

Web Small Business Social Media Matching 52

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

Social Media 51

Social Media Cofounder Small Business Engineer 51

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years.

Small Business 39

Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 39

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

Marketing 41

Marketing Matching Social Media Cofounder 41

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

Entrepreneur 231

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

Anything You Want is another The Domino Project publication and a fitting one I think.

Small Business 57

Small Business RSS Marketing Social Media 57

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Clark Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

Social Media 41

Social Media Social Network Small Business Matching 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages.

Small Business 44

Small Business Social Media Matching RSS 44

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works. He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. Joe Speaks to large and small groups on marketing, publishing, social media, new journalism, personal branding and why he always wears orange.

Social Media 41

Social Media Small Business Matching RSS 41

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Keith Ferrazzi Keith Ferrazzi is the author of Never Eat Alone and the founder of the Relationship Masters Academy, an online training program for networking that offers the structure and support to put Keith’s bestselling books into action in your life for unparalleled career success and satisfaction.

Social Media 40

Social Media Programming Small Business RSS 40

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

Sonia Simone Sonia Simone is the senior editor of Copyblogger and a co-founder of Copyblogger Media , a company with a suite of valued marketing and training products and more than 55,000 customers.

Social Media 42

Social Media Email Small Business Programming 42

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

It’s almost like the clock is moving backwards to 2004/2005 when blogs when there was much less noise in the blogosphere, but a smaller audience of commited, early adopters. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

Software Review 49

Software Review RSS Software Developers Software Development 49

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). Do whatever you want with the founders".

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

Founder 80

Founder Conversion Distribution Silicon Valley 80

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2003: 44.6. 3/31/2005: 22.8. Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy. Smart investors will want the founders and employees to be properly motivated post-financing, so there may be a way to a reasonable outcome for both you and your people. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

Down Round 78

Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

Silicon Valley 46

Silicon Valley Semantic Social Network Cofounder 46

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 10, 2011

Come back to ducttapemarketing.com/blog starting on Monday and each day the week to find the new content.)

Small Business 68

Small Business Software Review Social Media RSS 68