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. According to Transparency International in 2013, Nigeria was the world’s 144th most corrupt country out of the 177 countries monitored. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2013

With the trend of email overload more than likely to continue in 2013, the time has come to clean up, prioritize and organize your inbox so that the emails you do receive are the ones you want to keep. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is Co-Founder & President of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. He said this. After all, they had $125 million in the bank, what would they need public funds for?

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Today in 2013, the majority of LinkedIn’s revenue comes from an enterprise version of our subscriptions product.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. Taking the safe career option, the regular job, the job that pays the bills, is admirable. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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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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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy.

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