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Don’t get hung up on early stage valuation.

Berkonomics

The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. This one is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more. The post Don’t get hung up on early stage valuation. More of my stories. Lessons founders learned.

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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

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). How did the site come about?

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

Its product Fetch Fans is a social media design application that builds highly interactive and custom branded Facebook business page tabs, Twitter and blog backgrounds, which was launched at DEMO earlier this year. The service would use early-stage smart phones and a push system developed by Rhino. What Could Have Been.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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Congratulations to Upwork

A Crowded Space

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Back in 2004 - 2010, he would routinely send me early stage companies to check out as part of his diligence process. I’d then report my findings directly back to Greg.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). You can sometimes attract capital from farther away but typically harder to do at early stage.