Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. 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). How did the site come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Most Internet businesses should show profitability in two years, while new medicines may take ten years to pass FDA and other safety tests. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Most Internet businesses should show profitability in two years, while new medicines may take ten years to pass FDA and other safety tests. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose was, John (05:27): Yeah, of course, it's so cliche now, but I like to tell even 30 year olds about a dialup internet and things of that nature. These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage. Who could use it?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica? But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

I I of course, it's so cliche now, but you know, I like to tell even 30 year olds, you know, about uh, dial up, um, internet and, uh, Yeah. These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage. So it's understanding what constraint is and how to manage that, I suppose. John Jantsch (06:24): Yeah.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Austin-based BigCommerce, which went public last year, was also a recent success story for our growth stage fund, Revolution Growth.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. And yet, many of the greatest success stories of the internet era involve founder/professional CEO partnerships. s Tim Koogle helped build Jerry Yang and Dave Filo’s startup into the world’s most valuable internet company.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: teknolojik internet magazini | September 10, 2007 12:07 PM Many companies that offer server technology have special programs for startups as well, which makes owning your own equipment easier and less expensive for startups. Theres a niche that needs it, but few people starting out do.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Southern California, The “Silicon Basin” - - With the convergence of social media, the Internet, and digital entertainment, Southern California is now humming as a great startup region. An assumption that you’ll more likely make it there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market).

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language. framework was built.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I specialize in brand strategy from the early stages through launch, and use my trusted network of groupies – from Web designers to photographers – to support the vision for brands I’m working with. I started my home-buying business in 2003 with a personal net worth of negative $80,000. The rest is history!

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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. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I don’t know any developers.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

Yair Margolin: I was a member of the core team at Peerapp in 2003, a supplier of caching solutions for ISPs. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. We don’t need to fly for meetings, as people approach me over the Internet. Tell me a bit about your previous experience.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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