VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2021

I first met Mark in Israel in 2003, when he offered me a job at GLG straight out of college. Consequently, we concentrate around 80% of our giving in two organizations that I co-founded and Chair — African Mission Healthcare and United Hatzalah. Please join us!

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. He recently wrote an in depth, multi-part blog series on the impact of working with remote employees and no managers. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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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.

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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. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Give credit to employees and clients. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. Nettuno is an experienced entrepreneur – he co-founded Milestone Financial Group which was later acquired by Raymond James, Inc. Consider it good karma!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. Nichole MacDonald, founder of The Sash Bag secured multiple rounds of funding and advisors through the Hera Hub community.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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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. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Matt shares his story and give some great insight on hiring the right employees for your company. In 2003, he founded MJS Executive Search. Leyens is currently the co-founder and President of Provendus Group, a team of business strategists who guide entrepreneurs to achieve business growth, profitability and personal freedom.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. 12 – It was Just Time. Image Credit: Jane Scudder.

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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. We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. We focus every day on delivering a fantastic shopping experience for our customers – fast, secure and stress-free.”.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

The company stated in 2003 and passed $30 million sales last year. He has three employees and sales of just a few hundred thousand dollars annually, selling control systems that save energy as retrofits to hot water systems. Daniel’s key to success, as he said accepting the award, was “trust my team.&#

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

The company started in 2003 and passed $30 million sales last year. He has three employees and sales of just a few hundred thousand dollars annually, selling control systems that save energy as retrofits to hot water systems. Daniel’s key to success, as he said accepting the award, was “trust my team.&#

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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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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right. It was the era of “go big or go home.” I want to control my destiny.”.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right. It was the era of “go big or go home.” I want to control my destiny.”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents , and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150.

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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

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. We wanted to find a name that had meaning and that would keep every employee focused on what we are all about. I started my home-buying business in 2003 with a personal net worth of negative $80,000. 7 – Translation of Sundiata.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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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. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. Second, understand the broader financing climate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works. 6. Not Leveraging Employees. Your employees are your content assets. Find the 10% of employees that are content creators and nurture that.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. But first some background.)

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue. Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google and others are growing their employee base and presence in L.A.

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