Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. The summer of 2003, I started an open-source (Drupal-based) project for the campaign (Deanspace), got a job in the campaign HQ in Burlington, VT, dropped out of school, and had about the most profound professional experience one could at age 19 in 2003.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I love people who have been put to the test – whether by market forces or even by their own stupid mistakes – and come back stronger. But markets don’t generally love failure. It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

An entrepreneur who starts his own business can break free from this actuarial perspective and redefine the value he brings to the market,” he says. For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. Connect on Twitter: @LegalAdvice.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. Founded in 2012, FINEX Cast Iron Cookware Co. After all, what have you got to lose?

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

The centerpiece of the pledge is the Walker Rule, which is inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the late Dan Rooney in 2003 and is now supported by his son, Art Rooney II, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rooney Rule requires every NFL team to interview at least one minority candidate for head coach vacancies.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. From banking software to cell phones, as markets develop and grow, more user-friendly products with fewer but highly-polished features are winning the game. Viktor Marohni?

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PHP Management HTML Framework 143

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. As co-founder of Y Combinator and co-founder of the Viaweb which sold to Yahoo!

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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. The Big Brand System blog is where marketing and design converge to make your business better. Marketing & Sales. Duct Tape Marketing | John Jantsch.

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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. I launched a marketing strategy consulting firm, Perspective Marketing, and found it convenient and cost effective to work from home.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Marketing Technical Review 48

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. I got my start when I was young—as an eBay Powerseller—and I eventually moved on to building a thriving marketing agency. Photo Credit: Daniel Javor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise. were doing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

On one axis we have the degree of market uncertainty for a given industry. For "cure for cancer" type businesses, there is no question about who the customer is and what the customer wants, and therefore there is no market uncertainty. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. The company was doomed.

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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 becomes a $500B+ market cap company.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

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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Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 47

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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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. Failure plagues those who believe in the traditional business plan; the long-term planning model; the belief that sales and marketing numbers are facts. Is it attitude or is it money?

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, we’re in an opaque industry compared with the public markets, and having the real scoop about what’s going on at a private company, and who are raising now, will be a meaningful edge for a long time. A quant approach is common in the public markets, but used by few in the private company investing space. – Reputation.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

That said, we’re in an opaque industry compared with the public markets, and having the real scoop about what’s going on at a private company, and who are raising now, will be a meaningful edge for a long time. A quant approach is common in the public markets, but used by few in the private company investing space. – Reputation.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. To give you an example of that noise, brands, social networks and other organizations sent a record number of marketing messages in 2012, up 19% on 2011. Email is getting pretty good as a marketing channel. Do you ever wonder how we functioned before email?

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Email Cofounder Social Network Channel 145

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, podcastbookers.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. And the organization to implement all this was not through traditional sales, marketing and business development groups on day one.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

Small Business 41

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Delaying going out of business gives you way more chances at product / market fit than any other strategy I know of. Fair point.

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Burn Rate Dilution Revenue Valuation 412

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 becomes a $500B+ market cap company.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Begin collecting and storing hundreds of email addresses for email marketing purposes. Use social media as a platform to market yourself! Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. In 2003, he departed Nettworth to found Schedulicity.

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Social Media Small Business Media Widget 235

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. But a lot of people were funding marketplaces and other online “things” in this arena – well over $500 million of VC capital went into the home improvement market alone. Total quants.

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Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

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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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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Small Business Marketing Cofounder Social Media 54

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Ciro Donalek , CTO and Co-founder, believes immersive environments are a great way to collaborate with other people and build compelling stories about your data anywhere in the world and in real time. He was given an honorary degree in 2003 at the University Federico II in Naples, my hometown. Amazing mind.

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Southern California Los Angeles California Artificial Inteligence 67

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. I’ll also never forget all of the potential technical co-founders that we talked to who never seemed to be a perfect fit. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

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Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 141

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

At the time, Word for Mac was a relatively small market. It was only $60M vs. Windows which at that point was more than a $1B market. PowerMacs were just hitting the market, which had significantly faster chips and more memory. Martina has gone on to have a remarkable career, in both product management and product marketing.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60