Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. First of all, we all know that the age distribution in the U.S. is inching higher.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Narrow Networks — Narrow networks are an interesting response to the above market prices that the large hospitals and groups are pushing on the broader market. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

While all these systems made it easier to create and distribute content, society as a whole never said, “Okay, that’s too much content!” A GRAPHIC GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE, TODAY.

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VC Cafe

JULY 9, 2010

G erson Lerhman Group (“GLG&# , but not to confuse with the hedge fund), the world’s largest monetized expert network, and Bloomberg Professional Services announced a high-value collaboration, enabling Bloomberg Professional clients access to more than 50,000 select GLG Council Members through the Bloomberg terminal.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.” I asked Jonah about this. “I

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age. It’s a great business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2011

Facebook is a social network, built from the ground up for that purpose, by a company that does nothing else. Google has produced a series of 11 videos that highlights the features on Google+ Below is a quick overview of the key features of Google+ Circles This is how Google wants to let you organize your network.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Campbell signed on to the Data Sync Technologies team in 2004 and has helped it achieve meaningful partnerships, including U.S. She started a poster distribution business out of her bedroom, simply because she loved posters. Creator of the What Works Network and Host of the What Works Podcast. intelligence and defense contracts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2011

Coupon distribution Creating membership type levels where people can get special treatment or special announcements is a great way to build community. Related Posts: Are Small Private Social Networks the Next Layer? You ask a question and then offer the responses via short code and watch the results populate your PowerPoint slide.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 11, 2011

Very cool service from HP that allows you to upload PDFs or publications and print them for distribution. (HP Good stuff I found this week: HP MagCloud – publish, print and ship anywhere in the world. Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 20, 2014

An unsolicited domain slamming email from Network Solutions / Wikipedia.org. ICANN introduced the safety measure of domain locking, also known as registrar-lock, in 2004. Always have the information distributed to more than one person in case something happens to the person or their job. Some domains run on “EPP” code.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

Godin and Amazon are attempting to change the way books are published much like CDBaby changed the way music was published and distributed. Anything You Want is another The Domino Project publication and a fitting one I think.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

People Distribute Content If you’re creating online content, you’ve got to get the word out about it for people to share it far and wide with others. Beyond the creation of content itself, online content distribution begins with key relationships with others in your subject matter arena. It’s not called social media for nothing.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Podcast distribution. To support distribution, the show title should be unique, memorable, relevant, and, of course, keyword optimized. Let’s get started. . Podcasting as a marketing channel.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

After Amazon acquired that site, called Joyo, in 2004, Wang went on to build a new e-commerce site, DHGate. million buyers and distributes goods to 224 countries, with North America and Europe among its largest markets. million buyers and distributes goods to 224 countries, with North America and Europe among its largest markets.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. We had to fold after three years of not making a dollar.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Amazon currently has over 15,000 of these robots across warehouses in the company’s network. As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

There was no demand in companies for using a wide area network like the Internet and they didn’t believe that the demand would ever be there so we got no funding. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. We had to fold after three years of not making a dollar.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. In 2004, Roo founded we:nited magazine – a youth politics magazine and website.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. An aspiring entrant would need to build a network of railways to compete independently. Why would Tesla let others use its network, which could be a moat to protect it from electric competitors? “I

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

In 2004, the students started PoolTables.com, with about $20,000 scraped together from friends and family. The program distributes awards of roughly $5,000 apiece to promising teams, including the nine winners announced in March. Baby.com.br is the second start-up for Mr. Thomas, 31, and Mr. Smith, 32.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Digital Network. Personal Technology. What They Know.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. The reason is simple: network effects. Metcalfe’s law states that a network’s power is proportional to the square of the number of connected users to the network. But when the web 2.0 Bust our own myths. Even if you wanted to.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this email is prohibited and may be unlawful. million shares of Google stock. To learn more about opportunities we are following now, please click here.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. Their numbers are impressive. Case study #3 - Noritz.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Tapping into my knowledge of and experience in automotive marketing, I identified a need to monetize social networks for businesses. Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. ► 2010. (7).

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BeyondVC

JULY 5, 2004

As an investor, the difficult part of any consumer wireless play is that the wireless world is a walled garden and not an open network like the Internet. In addition, imagine the competition to get distribution from the carriers-there are lots of little guys knocking on the door.

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