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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

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) Now it’s time for the Finance, Portfolio and Expansion teams to take over.

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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. Barack Obama would not be president today without the path the Dean web team blazed.

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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. Perhaps in direct proportion to the number of “freemium” and “eyeballs” web deals funded.) My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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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. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company.

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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. And along the way we’ve met with or observed a larger number of seed-stage startups attempting to start them.

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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).

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Total raised: $18.3mm.