Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

We live today in a golden age of writing and resources for entrepreneurs. Even 10 or 15 years ago, when I first cut my teeth as an entrepreneur, there were very few things to read. It was part Silicon Valley insider and part marketing huckster. But it was not always this way! Study them so you can at least tell new lies.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zLmdx7 “We pitched investors 348 times before getting a ‘yes’ from Walden Venture Capital in March 2004.” y6fyXN (at 7:56) New vid post >>> Motivational Clips for Entrepreneurs: “The Greatest” bit.ly/xs2La5.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Headquarters: Norwalk, CT & Concord, MA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. combination of factors –.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Balancing business and family, and ensuring demand for your product were key lessons shared by two veteran entrepreneurs on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. But coming to Silicon Valley is not nirvana.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

As an entrepreneur at heart, I often innately grasp the potential of entrepreneurs and ideas that I meet with. These days, I am seeing a large number of first time entrepreneurs with great ideas, which is fantastic to see. There is inherent risk taking when you haven’t done it before, which often leads to true innovation.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. All the other stuff Yahoo!

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). 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. Rise of Y Combinator, 1st Branded Entrepreneur Guild.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. Among a sample of companies started in 2004, two-thirds of founders were in the 35-54 age bracket. Tags: entrepreneur startup boomer business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

Vijay Anand is an entrepreneurially-minded professional with more than 13 years of hands-on experience as an entrepreneur , an advisor, and a columnist at Entrepreneur magazine. I came back to India , in 2004. It’s a dramatic shift from how things were in 2004. How are entrepreneurs in India like?

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Michael Buzinski, President & CMO of Buzzworthy Website Marketing , is a lifelong entrepreneur, digital marketing thought leader, best-selling author, and US Air Force Veteran. Her team helps lifestyle-driven entrepreneurs take back their freedom through powerful systems and effective delegation. or 608-542-0880. Tonya Sowles.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. link] [link] --> By JOANN S.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. What is customer development?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

But aside from perceptions, a potential market of 400 million people over the next three decades will always focus the minds of entrepreneurs, and the type of entrepreneurs that see better opportunities than swindling an innocent person by email. Africa Entrepreneur Insider News' Online shopping as tech opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

The study, by Professor Olav Sorenson of the Yale School of Management and Michael Dahl of Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark, is titled “ Home Sweet Home: Entrepreneurs’ Location Choices and the Performance of Their Ventures.” You need investors and early employees to trust you and those are people you already know,” he says.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Now that I’m back full time in NYC, I decided to run for the Board of NY Tech Meetup, a dynamic community of 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and people interested in tech. Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. We are in what I call NYC 3.0,

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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. . My hope with Sessions is to create an event I wished were around when I was just getting started as a career-long entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Jonathan Greechan is a Partner and the Head of Marketing at the Founder Institute – an entrepreneur training and startup launch program that has helped launch over 1250 tech companies across 6 continents.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. What They Do : Enable users to connect and share content with friends online. Read More ».

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Like any motivated entrepreneur, I started a company (in this case, an investment platform), to fill the gaps – which I also believed FPV was uniquely capable of filling. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. Below is a recap.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each entrepreneur and brand. business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. As the son of entrepreneurs, it’s in my blood to create a business for myself. Start our FREE Business Blogging Course!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. Enter Facebook. provides you.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. 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. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. ProfessorVC.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Unfortunately, while the International Entrepreneurs Rule was scheduled to become active a long time ago, it has been steadily delayed by the current US administration. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. Unfortunately, while the International Entrepreneurs Rule was scheduled to become active a long time ago, it has been steadily delayed by the current US administration. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

No better time than now to be an entrepreneur. All of our major institutions are being tested like never before, but as big as they are, as established as they are, as old as they are, remember they were built once by people, by entrepreneurs who brought that vision to reality. This is the moment for entrepreneurs.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). I would advise any entrepreneur or investor considering content to think twice, as Howard Lindzon from Wallstrip warned us. It’s free. Company: Go.

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