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. Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. For many Westerners, Victoria Island resembles the polar opposite of the imaginary Manhattan Island, the high-security prison depicted in John Carpenter’s film Escape From New York.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 2, 2018

Amazon’s description of Do the KIND Thing: For the socially conscious, the intellectually curious, or the creative soul comes an inspiring, New York Times bestselling handbook for success in business, life, and the all-important task of building a more compassionate world—by the visionary founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages. Read each of the five posts that follow and click our entry form link to match the guest star with their post.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents , and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com] , is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… New York. Find New $LINKTEXTFIND$ » smaller. 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. Mozilla Firefox. » More.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Working directly with other CEOs and founders, I receive immediate feedback and appreciation for my expertise.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. I [Reid] remember when Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky told me about the offer.). They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met. Thanks to Matthew Myre, Berri Properties ! I launched Alexx, Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Twenty-three year-olds in New York City running a small business. Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. Jonathan: Yeah, that’s right.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

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. The Real Paid PAID Vacation Policy. 3 hours ago. 5 hours ago.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

That would be our last time indoors in a New York City restaurant. Within a month, over 10,000 New York City residents would be dead, representing nearly half of all of the deaths in the country at the time. But, if you were lucky enough to still be working, New York City was—dare I say it—fun.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New Hampshire.

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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. These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder.

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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. These are often 100% US-based at inception, but in my experience they are more likely to both open an office abroad and to sell abroad than a company without an immigrant founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Located along Scotts Road in the Cairnhill area of Singapore, the 231-unit The Scotts Tower comes under Far East Organization ‘s new Far East SOHO branding umbrella, which will introduce new generation SOHO-style apartments in Singapore, as well as other markets in the region such as China and Indonesia.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Furthermore, founders become highly emotional about their companies. Company : BricaBox.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2016

by Andrea Katz, founder and Chief Ideonista at Ideon. Going from Esquire’s “2004 Sexiest Woman Alive” to Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People of 2008” to special envoy to the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees in 2010 signals an incredible degree of brand flexibility on Jolie’s part. Branding is no longer just for brands.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. 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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Do you think Red Sox fans would have rather had nicer guy than Manny Ramirez in 2004, or would they rather have had his 130 RBI? If he didn't play in New York, he'd basically be Craig Biggio. If you're not a founder, you're not going to get a ton of equity. Not everyone can be Derek Jeter. You know what?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The Israeli operations will be based in Herzliya and New York.“Israel SecondMarket’s founder and CEO Barry Silbert said in the announcement : “Israel is an entrepreneurial hotbed and we are excited to work with the country’s most dynamic private companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? Write it down now.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In a New York Times study, a research group looked at the psychology of sharing. The New York Times study also looked at what drives people to share content. When Facebook first launched in 2004, it was text-only. As FeverBee founder Richard Millington notes: “The secret to a thriving community is relevance.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. FOUNDER INSTITUTE. Company: Founder Institute. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Tags: the funded , founder-institute. → Learn More. Photo Credit/ 22dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Panelists Adam Berk, founder Neigh*borrow Adam Black, founder KeyWifi Jeff Stewart, founder Lenddo / Mimeo Cameron Tonkinwise, Associate Dean for Sustainability, Parsons, The New School Moderated by Roo Rogers, President of Redscout Ventures, and Co-Author of What’s Mine Is Yours. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Morra Aarons-Mele, founder of Women Online and the mission list. During the 2004 Presidential Election, Morra was the Director of Internet Marketing for the Democratic National Committee. Marketing Podcast with Morra Aarons-Mele. Podcast Transcript.

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