YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Place your bets on an entrepreneur who has the guts to pivot, restructure, bounce back, and the stamina to re-orientate his business when profitability starts to seem bleak. Emmanuel de Watteville, General Partner and Co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures, has been part of the startup ecosystem since 2003.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That VC who saw me stick through hard times at my first company and get an exit at both companies is the firm where I’m now a partner. I knew my partners for 8 years before joining GRP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. Jason also serves on the board of the Future Founders Foundation, a Chicago-based organization that empowers the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. It has been a rocket ship from there.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

Part of being an entrepreneur is to know when to take a step back to build something else. Find a customer to partner with in the early stages of the process that is willing to take that leap with you to help guide you through your transition. But what if you got it right and you were derailed by circumstances out of your control?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person. They’re buying you.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. Most law firms simply use the last names of the originating partners as the name of the company. I am obsessed with entrepreneurs.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

More interestingly, he is a successful entrepreneur with his series of stock trading training programs where he reveals the strategies behind his trading success. Apart from being a renowned stock trader, Timothy Sykes is also a serial entrepreneur. He shot to limelight after turning his $12,415 Bar Mitzvah gift money into $1.65

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. There was a point in time when, if you were to propose Shopify to a serious Web development agency, they would laugh and proudly display their Magento partner certificate.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. That said, while a younger company compared to WordPress, Webflow has worked hard to partner with applications to ensure your favorite integrations work with them as well. A brief history of WordPress.

Software Review 91

Software Review Technical Review Hosting SEO 91

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. Hunter is a partner at Homebrew and previously led consumer product management at YouTube.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

How a law firm got funded thanks to partners that wouldn’t give up. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. Who could you contact that might be interested in your business, even if you think they’re totally out of your league? Look to the government.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What have entrepreneurs been up to since then? Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. 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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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with. These days, I am seeing a large number of first time entrepreneurs with great ideas, which is fantastic to see. There is inherent risk taking when you haven’t done it before, which often leads to true innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs play to win and they take losing seriously.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. All the other stuff Yahoo! Read More ».

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Key Takeaways In this insightful episode, Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba, renowned authors and entrepreneurs, introduce the transformative concept of unfair advantages in the entrepreneurial journey. 10:02] How do you respond to the notion of creating your own luck as an entrepreneur? [13:20] They're award-winning authors and entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Cyndi Thomason , president and founder of bookskeep, has channeled her energetic nature and passion for her work into the perfect business model for assisting small businesses, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations. Backed by a B.A. 7 at Collective Bias (social media agency). Backed by a B.A.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2018

Moody established Stella & Chewy’s in 2003 in a tiny New York City apartment, but the impetus for the business came years earlier when Chewy, who had been rescued from an animal shelter, developed severe health problems. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? Tell us about your products and services.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. → Learn more. Website: fi.co.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 6, 2016

Doug Kisgen is a serial entrepreneur, author, consultant and speaker. He formed his first corporation right out of college in 1991, started his second company- a Home Instead Senior Care franchise which became an INC5000 fastest growing company in 2011 and 2012- in 2003 which he sold in 2012. Corporate Partners. Show Links.

Programming 74

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

“We’re trying to find entrepreneurs who are thinking of it as another stage in the company,” he said. But there’s also the satellite-mapping company Keyhole, which in 2003 became the seed that sprouted Google Maps. “Very few entrepreneurs get to the stage of creating a billion-dollar company. .

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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. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Especially with changes from Google and the introduction of platforms like LinkedIn Pulse, content has a lot of value for entrepreneurs and business owners when leveraged correctly. When I decided to start my business in 2003 it was not a decision that I took lightly. Stop poking at pain points. The world is in enough pain.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

She is a columnist for Inc.com “Women in Business” and has been published in DM News as well featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, ClickZ, and B2B Magazine. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 41

The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2013

John Marshall began his enterprise-grade mobile device management company, AirWatch , in 2003 as a wireless hotspot management company before providing device management for old-school mobile devices. Marshall and his partner, Alan Dabbiere, then had an opportunity to take the business to the next level after a chance meeting with Apple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At what point did you feel like you outgrew your ability, you and your partners, I guess in this case, ability to actually run that company? Over that eight year, eight years of time, actually some of the partners come and went. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. I've been in venture now twice.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You have to teach entrepreneurs how to fish rather than serving dinner for them. Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. — Teaching entrepreneurs how to fish. And wishing you had asked for help much earlier in a startup. Frank Rimalovski.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 20, 2014

At the time, Tom was a partner at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital in San Diego. At the time (around 2003), many venture capital firms were licking their wounds. He said that going forward, Enterprise Partners would wait at least six months before funding any new company they met. The rationale was solid.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. Then last month we partnered with NCIIA and taught 62 college and university educators in our first Lean LaunchPad Educators Program.

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