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.

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, Abe Othman, Partner at Indicator Fund and Head of Data Science at AngelList, observes, “Those companies don’t have a “margin of safety” though, in the traditional Seth Klarman sense of the word. Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns. Weaker negotiating posture.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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. Venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz among others put $15 million into it. Today, he is worth $1 billion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I've been in venture now twice. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. In early 2003, I started to think about leaving Mobius. In March 2003 I fully engaged in Mobius.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. However, I will then argue that while these methods are necessary to managing new ventures inside a company, they are insufficient. As Steve would say, this is a big idea.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.” More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because. Reid Hoffman.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 16:35-19:35). 22:00-33:00).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

Nate Redmond is the managing partner of Rustic Canyon Partners – he’s probably one of the youngest managing partners of a major fund you’ll meet. And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. I agree with him. Is that a real trend?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element. I learned how to better run a product management process.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. 2) Rebirth of Some Firms - Mobius Venture Capital is now defunct.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly Reilly Tech Ventures, was so concerned about the network that he deleted his AngelList account. The opposite approach of index investing is an actively managed or concentrated investing approach. To my surprise, VC? s 500, and the Nasdaq composite Index. social proof? startupcto

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. So, if you think about how a large company can innovate, they could build, they could buy, they could partner, they could license. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. What changes have you seen in the last 15 years?

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

What a journey it has been since the genesis of the company in 2003, when it’s visionary team set out to automate the agreement process and solve many pain points from speed to cost and accuracy. There is a lot more to it to ensure the authentication of the user, the security of the information, and the management of the transaction workflow.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

It was only around 2003 that the first podcasts appeared, but actually what made Podcasts mainstream, was the show Serial , an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, which started as a side project of the National Public Radio’s (NPR) show “This American Life”. It’s excellent, doesn’t really get more meta. itunes.apple.com.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) 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. General managers of divisons are compensated on division P&L not long term innovation.

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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank Rimalovski is the executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and managing director of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund. Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. Frank : You can describe it that way.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). No phone system. No legal muck.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp. Describe Your Education and Past Successes.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. This global reach is a new model of early stage venture, one that we believe we will see more of in the future.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 5, 2010

For decades, the venture capital industry was like a Yale Secret Society - very clubby, discrete and opaque. Today, over 100 VCs blog regularly (including all five of the Flybridge general partners! ). When I first started blogging five years ago (inspired by David Hornik, who started VentureBlog in 2003!),

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo. Today, Goldstar works directly with 4,000 venue partners to connect them with their huge and growing audience. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. I was on an airplane 2-3 times / week meeting potential customers, investors, employees, business partners and the press. We found a way to get a round of venture capital closed after all of this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike Yavonditte is the founder of the “super hot&# Hashable , a startup out of NYC that has been described as a “ Mint.com for Social Capital ” Mike sold his previous company, Quigo , to Aol for $340 Million. Now, he ‘outsources’ his investments through John Frankel of Frankel Asset Management.

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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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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. It’s about the Oakland A’s and their General Manager Billy Beane. . – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen. What’s Moneyball? It’s the only way to cut through human bias.”.

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