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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. How do founders think about whether it’s time to move on or not?

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Following is a guest post by Zack Rosen , co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004.

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5/25-NYC – Investing in Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets

David Teten

He then led the growth of the domain services division, expanded into the aftermarket business and built Oversee’s owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the worlds largest, firmly establishing the company as a leader in Internet real estate. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. It’s free.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Engineering & Accounting Svcs.