This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. Venture Capital & Technology' After my two year stint was up, I bought a domain name.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 13, 2023

Department of Defense (DoD) and the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital are interested in the company because they believe the technology it develops could give the U.S. Hydrogen is a great fuel source for weapons that need to be used quickly and effectively due to its high combustibility and ease of production in the field.

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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. ESPN, Forbes, AOL were customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

AMF’s decision to streamline production and slash the workforce resulted in labor strikes, low quality motorcycles, and declining sales. Jobs helped restructure the brand and launch the revolutionary products that the brand is now known for. chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. Thanks Tim!)

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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. At their core they make products out of expanded PTFE like Gore-Tex. What does it take to get from that demo into your engineering group, to be delivered as a product into your existing sales channel?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2016

But a positive outlook, it turns out, isn’t merely an intellectual disposition we don — it’s a deep-seated component of our evolutionary wiring and the product of powerful, necessary delusions our mind is working around-the-clock to maintain. It’s how we achieve the seemingly impossible.

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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”. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally. the catalyst.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

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.” It is the tech hub of Texas and has the most local venture capital and attracts the most venture capital. Austin Ventures.

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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. Congratulations to the past and present DocuSign team for their incredible achievements, as the company makes its public market debut.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

The quantitative combination of an initial approach that is high-volume, but later selectively filtered results in a higher percentage outcome of winners, and larger dollar-weighted bets on companies that are successful. startupcto

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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. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to better run a product management process. We were family.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. I agree with him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

These notions of an independent ethos don’t map that well to what we know about venture capital, which is a very staged and formulaic way of building a company. As a venture funded startup, you’re supposed to operate a certain way. Because venture does provide a lot of good things to a bunch of really great companies.

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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). Their #1 product is Arduino. Instead, they research the “best of X” and sell that one product. He was smart, funny and engaging, and it was very inspiring.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

They buy your product. Then they receive your product. With crowdfunding, the end product doesn’t even exist. Education plays a major role in venture capital. Reference an Inexpensive Hedonic Product. even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” ( Burnham, 2003 , pp.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Its latest product was an oscilloscope, the HP 150a. That year HP introduced its first computer, the HP 2116A , as an instrument controller for HP’s test and measurement products. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. It was still a year away from its IPO.

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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”. Serial exploded in popularity and spread virally.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

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. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. You're not going to get a lot of attention when your angel round looks like a trophy room full of big names that have only committed small amounts--and it's tough to follow up with this week's press that you are the next big thing if your product isn't ready. She had flower sleeves of spectacular color.

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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. As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Your venture capital investors and many early employees head for the door and you are left holding the bag. After a lot of ups and downs, twists and turns, it feels like a massive victory (aka "Mission Accomplished", as George Bush famously declared regarding Iraq in 2003). By that time, your team will be exhausted.

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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. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0”

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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. This is surely leading to more efficient markets in what many call the most inefficient market of all - the dance of small businesses seeking capital. My how the world has changed in a few short years. 3) Educational.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Sunday - September 28, 2003 at 03:37 AM in. To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. 2) The first company to capitalize on a new product or idea has a unique and sustainable advantage. Categories.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market? 300 million market? This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Is that a $20 million market? $30 30 million market? 300 million market? This is her core market.

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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. We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. 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

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003. The first step in figuring out how to improve conversions is by gathering feedback and analysis. What’s Moneyball?

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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. So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. I think I just really feared working for the Man. Need proof?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. — Frank Sculli co-founded of BioDigital , in 2003 to build a kind of flight simulator for doctors that would be used to train them in specific medical procedures. They really do enjoy it.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

No venue wants to be told that their product is worthless, and no customer wants to go see a show that’s unsellable,” said Robert Graff. 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. How’d they do it?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Any industrial company that exports part of its production automatically qualifies for benefits under the law. billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements.

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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. While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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