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). I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. How did the site come about?

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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. we had no revenue. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. To show potential revenue streams, we listed three products: ads, listings, and subscriptions.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

you desire to be slightly feared), entrepreneurs who run companies must mentor their employees in order to get them to excel. However, I believe you can and should be a mentor and friend to your own employees and team, and not just a boss. And then have them mentor 5 employees beneath them. Who Should be Mentored?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Newzoo estimates the global games market revenue at approximately $150 Billion in 2019, across all platforms, devices etc. According to Statista, the Music industry generated around $56 Billion in revenue in 2019, and movies generated record of $42.5 Billion in revenues in 2019. Billion in revenues in 2019.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Because they can earn revenue from other sources. The average entrepreneur works over 52 hours a week, far beyond that of your traditional employee.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Running a company can be taxing so just remember – look up once in a while, take stock of how far you have come, and make sure to reward your employees for all their hard work. Mr. Wentzo joined Casewise in 2003 and has held a variety of Sales and Operational roles, with increasing responsibility.

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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. that develop among employees, public goods that are bought with the tax revenue generated by the company, economies that develop and grow from the spending of the employees (from restaurants to real estate, and a thousand other things).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

An employee walks up to me and says, “Mark, I’m thinking about buying a house. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Runway of cash. Would now be a good time to buy a house? ” Yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That gets back to the idea that when we first started Floodgate we always thought of ourselves as being owners and not just employees, and what that comes down to for me is bias for impact. I've been in venture now twice.

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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 were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

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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. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue. NETFLIX – Kate Arnold. Netflix is one of my all-time favorite products and companies.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

And the funds came from revenue generated by my portfolio of web applications and websites that I’ve built over the past several years. The site generated revenue but it was losing customers and the hosting bill was hefty given the performance requirements of the site (it’s basically performing real-time analytics).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Your A round?

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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 were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. When we started LinkedIn , it was a similar situation.

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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 were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble.

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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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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Our business is located in House District 44 (Mike May), and Senate District 30 (Ted Harvey) and most of our ~15 employees live in these same or surrounding Districts in the South Denver area. I live in House District 47 (Spencer Swalm) and Senate District 27 (Nancy Spence). Citrix Presentation Server 4.0, Citrix Presentation Server 4.5,

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It has made and wasted billions of dollars in oil revenues and outside Lagos the country is corrupt and doesn’t even run a Postal service for its people. We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003.

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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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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. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. Source VentureBeat ]. -

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 28, 2010

Interesting bits: He started in 2003 to provide a better on-line ordering experience for certain parts (moral: good UI + UX can win). They had 65 employees and did $10m in 2009, will be close to doubling revenues this year. He was smart, funny and engaging, and it was very inspiring.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/2003: 44.6. If we took too much dilution, we will work with our new investor to make sure that every employee is still highly financially motivated.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Revenue multiple? At an accelerator …. Your A round?

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 The success of business can be measured through many metrics — page views, revenues, profits, the number of employees, or an exit (either through a private or through a public sale). STARTING IT UP.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

in 2010, and for employees in the banking, finance and insurance sectors 64%. Among others, the team was instrumental in the development of the Centrino processor, which changed the company’s strategic roadmap, in 2003, and the Duo Core 2 architecture in 2006. Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) had revenue of $43.6

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/31/2003: 44.6 If we took too much dilution, we will work with our new investor to make sure that every employee is still highly financially motivated.

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Small Business Force

MARCH 11, 2017

However, the book “ Moneyball ” by Michael Lewis, published in 2003 and the follow-on movie, with Brad Pitt, from 2011, really seemed to bring it into mainstream thinking not just in sports, but in business and most everything else. What percentage of revenue comes from existing customers? Or safety stock levels?

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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. But if you want to accelerate growth and improve your revenues and profits, you need to up your game. Are you interested in comparing revenues? Unique visitors? Total visits?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

We wanted to find a name that had meaning and that would keep every employee focused on what we are all about. Towards the end, we decided we needed a name that really spoke to what we wanted to do, that being, increasing visibility for companies and driving traffic and revenue. We had honed in on a term like visibility.

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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 hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Founded in 2003, ASOCS develops and markets MultiComms.processors that provide seamless connectivity over diverse wireless networks. Established back in 2003, Comarcom Ltd. Improves customer experience during sale, after sale and support interactions while generating revenues and reducing operational costs. Craze Productions.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By prioritizing direct interaction with customers, fostering a culture of innovation, viewing setbacks as learning opportunities, investing in employee development, and upholding integrity and ethical conduct, businesses can navigate the challenges of growth and achieve sustainable success. This is John Jantsch. So what are you waiting for?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

All of a sudden, you need to focus on a different set of challenges and concerns like establishing standard procedures and managing a large number of employees. I’d rather be solving intellectual challenges and figuring out key strategies, not debating which employees should get a promotion, or configuring project timelines.

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