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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

Arin Fishkin did all the original graphic design. 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. InVenture is in a really great place.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. Every startup is in a race against time.

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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. If you look at the Founder Collective portfolio , you’ll see many well-recognized companies that they invested in at the very first round. The team at FC has structurally designed their firm around alignment to founders. This has also been our approach at Foundry Group.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. What Do VC’s Do? Reply Lee Hower , on September 16, 2009 at 3:38 am Said: Excellent post, thx.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. It helps them audit existing content portfolios (blog posts, landing pages, etc.) The course is designed to help you create and define a strategic brand identity, so you can build a successful brand. In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X.

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Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs - from Guy Kawasaki

Startup Lessons Learned

Mostly we read business books designed for established enterprise and tried to read through the lines to find ways to apply their wisdom to startups. The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. Another new firm that is growing non-investment resources is Google Ventures , which has specialized in several areas including design and data analysis.