Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy. Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders. That is a great opportunity for Booth students. Groupon is not the only success story for Lefkofsky and Keywell.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

with strong tailwinds behind it: a) Christmas 2003 was the year of the digital camera, b) Pets had quietly been moving from something families had to becoming members of the family c) the Internet nuclear winter was just passing, and a fun, colorful, whimsical site that anyone could use turned out to be quite newsworthy.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. I set up my laptop, connected to the Internet, opened the compulsory 15 page PowerPoint deck and waited for my adoring fans. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Mark Bao launched three nonprofits and 11 Internet-based companies by age 17, some of which he wound up selling and earning a comfortable profit.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. Paul Krugman, a Noble Prize winning economist, predicted that by 2005 it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy will be no greater than the Fax machine… Source: (you can check the authenticity on Snopes). The potential for the Metaverse remains huge.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In the last decade, however, that common wisdom has shifted, at least for consumer internet companies. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up: Face-to-Face Interaction No matter how small the internet has made the world, experts still recommend in-person networking as the No.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

This is dangerous, especially for founders. The last was dinner with Alex Rigopulos, the co-founder of Harmonix, which he co-founded with Eran Egozy in 1995, sold in 2007, bought back in 2010, and is still running today. Its founders sometimes give the impression of still being a bit shaken.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

What a lot of startup founders don’t realize is that when you take on VC funding, you also take on business partners. In 2005, Claus Moseholm co-founded GoViral, a Danish company which specializes in harnessing the internet to promote advertisers’ videos and make them go viral. You give up some control of your company.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. He was a partner and co-founder of Centennial Funds and he and Steve Halsted basically created the VC industry in Colorado in the early 1980s.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services. annual GMV.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

And fun we’ve been having crossing the the country helping companies communicate better with their customers and co-workers. I remember hearing the Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, talk about brand names and how having a strong K sound in your name made it more memorable. He said, “let’s go get it registered…we’re gonna have some fun”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet. He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers.

Small Business 54

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SocialMediaExplorer.com is owned, co-authored and edited by Jason. Lee Odden Lee Odden is the CEO of TopRank Online Marketing , a digital marketing agency specializing in strategic internet marketing consulting, training and implementation services including: Content, Search, Email and Social Media Marketing.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

After reading Charles Stross’ 2005 sci-fi novel, Accerlerando , Mattias Guilotte was excited. Mattias and the other co-founder, Henrik Dillman, created the first knowledge market for business professionals– that also exchanges money. The book’s theme is largely a question about the trade of information and communication.

Small Business 88

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. So, from the consumer end, the founders believed they could do better. Creating a better experience for both florists and consumers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Brian Halligan Brian Halligan is CEO & Co-Founder of HubSpot , a marketing software company he co-founded four years ago to help businesses transform the way they market their products by “getting found&# on the internet.

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Social Media Cofounder Small Business Engineer 51

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

He is the co-author of Get Content Get Customers. He is also the founder of Junta42 , the Content Marketing Institute , SocialTract and a few others in the works. Your content isn’t good enough that the magic content fairies will find it and spread it around the internet.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote."

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering. It was a hit.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. instead of having to travel home. .&# instead of having to travel home.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

Tellme was founded with the idea that anyone should be able to simply say what they want and get it from any device, starting with the phone,” said Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Tellme. The number of internet users reached 1 billion in 2005. But he insists that there are crucial differences.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I don’t know any developers. and Google.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff.  .  So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. 

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. It is written by Ronald Mannak, who is currently the CEO of a startup named Yobble. What follows are solely his opinions.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. Ideally you want between two and four founders. But you dont want so many founders that the company starts to looklike a group photo.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Seven long years ago, in 2005, Paul Graham had dinner with a bunch of college kids. After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. The front page of the Internet. Eight little seeds.

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