Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital'

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. See: TechCrunch. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. Crowdfunding communities are no different. Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. Describe Your Education and Past Successes.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. Foursquare was in the same position as lots of other companies when they took that first big round from AH, but it was up to a big venture capital firm to decide that this was a company in the first inning rather than the fifth, and to give it a big runway to think much bigger.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We took the opportunity as part of this year’s FUND Conference to get some insights from a couple of influential startup capital providers. Two of the panel participants have different funding perspectives, one venture capital and the other crowdfunding. Rumi Morales. Let’s just try.”. Listen to its gut and let it carry you.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06. By the fall of 2004, the site’s explosive growth attracted the attention of many potential investors and buyers.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 12, 2012

So, I’ve decided to break one of Brad’s golden rules of startup communities and start a new series for local founders and entrepreneurs I’m calling Sessions @ The Leonardo. . Fortunately, the wonderful team at The Leonardo has volunteered their support for this little experiment and I’m grateful to them for that.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm and thats how I found him when I walked in at 7:50AM this morning.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

When I first entered the venture capital business 10 years ago after being an entrepereneur, my partners warned me that "my bar" for new investments would get higher over time. Simply put, the collective bar of the investment community to fund young companies has recently gotten higher - much higher. .

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

2004-07-08 15:59:32 Hazards of Hiring. Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. Twelve years later, I think there is some wisdom in hiring people who have made significant contributions to an open source community project. About Eric. twitter.com/eric_sink. Version Control by Example. The Business of Software.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm.

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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. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Thanks Tim!)

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.” Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 29, 2015

In addition to my venture capital and teaching activities, I co-chair the board of trustees at Facing History and Ourselves , an educational non-profit that trains educators how to teach pivotal moments in history (e.g., Context: Facing History and Ourselves. Before addressing these questions, I have to provide a little context.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. It takes a lot of work to build a community. Best of luck in your venture.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 3, 2014

When I started in early 2004, very few people were blogging--and then I watched blogging take off. I can easily say that the weekly note I send out to over 8,000 people a week in the NYC tech community is a far more important channel for me than my blog. Venture Capital & Technology' There was only one problem.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

According to the 2019 Annual European Venture Report by PitchBook , European startups raised €32.4 Corporate venture capital (CVC) represented 45% of the total capital raised. The fund is done in partnership with several top tier venture capital funds including Accel, A16Z, KPCB, Spark Capital and others.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve identified a wide range of organizations who are working on bridging the economic, cultural, and political gap between Israel, the Arab community, and the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”) through technology. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Takwin Labs.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

A string quartet played a medley of pop radio hits as several hundreds startup founders, Goldman Sachs bankers, and venture capital investors, chatted over drinks inside a gleaming neon temple of Angel Orensanz in lower Manhattan. Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Another group, launched just before or after 2000, were stable enough to succeed while newer companies like Salesforce (1999), Google (1998), Twitter (2006), and Yelp (2004) have taken off like jackrabbits. Beale Street and Market Street by Leo vanMunching. Utah Mining and Construction are long gone.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

I still think of this as a blog—but I moved the e-mail version of this over to Substack because that’s feeling a bit like the beginnings of a community platform and an interesting place to be ). I started posting in February of 2004 and by the time 2007 rolled around, it seemed like everyone had a blog.

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