Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. Let’s call this the Boston Celtics phenomenon. Hopefully, it will help. How bad is it? That's 30 years ago, folks. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Zynga – 8x+ trailing revenue. Carbonite – 3.4x Read More ».

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Facebook estimates they already have 60% of addressable US internet users. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. Read More ».

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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. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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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. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. Amazon PostRank

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots. I’m not sure the Mafia could do better.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

The front page of the Internet. To have been responsible for funding and nuturing something that legitimately calls itself the “front page of the Internet”, the Y Combinator program has to have done something right. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

While one can look at how the success of Internet advertising will work its way into the television especially as the two markets converge, I like to look at the $60 billion spent on cable and television advertising another way. But to Haberman, that’s just the beginning.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. Ditto for Apple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. There are also a host of community sites dedicated to perl, and equally as many for the other prominent internet languages. One of the biggest pros you attribute to PHP is its community.

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