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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. Now it’s time for the Finance, Portfolio and Expansion teams to take over.

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Start Your Marketplace Engines

Genuine VC

At NextView Ventures, we have a number of companies in our portfolio which are “marketplace” businesses, where buyers and sellers meet to exchange a good or service. But the most difficult challenge is starting the marketplace engine in the first place, which can be sparked with one of the techniques above.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

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. We’re engineers laying down foundational tech that others will build on top of.

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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 what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company.

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Startup venture and alumni funds

VC Cafe

Their portfolio includes Messari, Opensea.io, and Celo. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine. WeWork (founded 2011) – the WeWork creator fund and WeWork future of work fund are led by Rohit Dave, the We company’s head of M&A.

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An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis

David Cohen

You are the engine of our future, after all. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages. Do more faster. Emerge stronger. You can do this. We are all rooting for you to do this. You are the employers of tomorrow. Travel, insurance, and similar industries took huge hits.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

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).