mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. Heres what they had to say: 1. What are your founders goals? ©2005-2014 Mashable, Inc. What one thing must be done?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it Here’s overall what you need to know. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn. it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

Scott Schreiman is the founder and chief executive officer of Samepage , a division of Kerio Technologies, Inc. Scott joined Kerio in 2005 and has over 18 years of senior management experience in sales, business development, marketing, operations and finance. You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Tim, Ryan, and team have created a phenomenal company that is built on two trends that have picked up massive speed in the past few years: (1) Agile and (2) SaaS. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

How to be a rebel at work was the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I’d bet the very best 1-2 funds probably perform meaningfully better than this threshold. Looking at all vintages from 2005 to 2014, the top 5% TVPI is between 40% to 127% better than the top quartile TVPI. What I find interesting is that the variation between the top 5% and the top quartile benchmarks is pretty wide.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. He is also a New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author himself. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Click here to listen to the episode. Biggest takeaway: Steven M.R. Hall, Ph.D.,

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. These were super-smart folks with average SAT scores of 1470 or more as Wharton was/is also rated #1 in undergrad. I made good money consulting?—?more

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

1- Arianna Huffington. Today HuffPo is one of the most well-read and well respected online media outlets but when she started it in 2005 she had lots critics who dismissed her unpaid bloggers and editorial content. Our intrepid founder, Tomas Gorny, has a classic immigrant entrepreneur story. Photo Credit: Paige Arnof-Fenn.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). Heres what they had to say: 1. Scott Gerber Scott Gerber is the founder of Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only organization comprised of the worlds most promising young entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He's the founder of JJ Analytics, a company that helps businesses adopt the data-driven way of digital marketing. In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Julian Juenmann.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

1- Name to signify the beginning of an end. Our advisor simply said that is why way business do business today, 1 week later we had, Today’s Business. My journey building the software naturally led into starting a marketing consulting firm that helps SMEs rank on page 1 for their highest value keywords.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

So when Sherri Tafoya, President and Founder of Customs Blinds & Design contacted us raving about the system, we asked her to share her experience and she graciously obliged. The post A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.

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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. Step 1: Calculate the annual increase.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). This post originally ran on TechCrunch.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. And Airbnb, Uber and WeWork, respectively, have firmly established themselves in the list of top ten ‘unicorns’ — companies valued at more than $1 billion. This last project was created in 2005 and it has managed to discover more than 50 pulsar and about 20 previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

That quest can best be summarized in three stages: 1) irrelevancy, 2) relevancy, and 3) a must-have. Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

Lucy Sanders, the founder/CEO of the National Center for Women & Information Technology is a remarkable person. I’ve worked with Lucy since 2005 and she’s done more advancing the cause of engaging women in IT, computer science, and entrepreneurship than anyone I know.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like? And there you have it.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Is that when it became big? was starting.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. We have a long way to go baby! Congrats! .

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2019

Portfolio co’ 1. Portfolio company 1 is THE outlier in Fund I – a 48x return multiple. There are many examples of start-ups where the founders don’t give up, pushing hard until they finally figured out something magically or until the market is ready for their product. Portfolio co’ 2.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Anita Campbell Anita Campbell serves as CEO of Anita Campbell Associates Ltd, a woman-owned consulting firm helping companies and organizations reach the small business market. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. 3 specific issues: 1. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. How you can help: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2018

by Adam Witty, Founder and CEO of Advantage | ForbesBooks. As a business book publisher who’s been working with entrepreneurs and CEOs for over a decade, I can tell you that there are stories I heard in 2005 that have stayed with me and some from last week that I’ve all but forgotten. Without one, it fades into the background.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. I mean, I'm sure you run into a lot of companies that are still founder driven, very good at selling and they've grown.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. It’s that simple.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

1- Celebrating the little wins. Once you or your business is working, it’s easy to remind yourself that: 1) you know enough to keep going, and 2) the hardest part is already behind you. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Questions I ask Dan Franks: [1:11] Can you give me a little bit of the history behind Podcast Movement? [1:55] 1:55] What does Podcast Movement look like today? [3:26] This is John Jantsch.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to interview Jesse Katz, entrepreneur and founder of www.efbuys.com. Here's what he had to say: 1. In 2005 I had a similar 6 month trip. What is EF Buys? EF Buys is Groupon for entrepreneurs. What makes your site different? [To Entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries are very near to my heart.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Market Size. Validate data. Validate firmly held positions. ”

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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. 1:20 and they turned up like clockwork. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I was wrong. Slides, please.”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. As you plan to consolidate the debts at your small business, remember that three things will affect the terms you are extended in the consolidation: your personal credit score, your business credit score and the overall state of your business’ finances: 1. Personal Credit Score.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2016

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. While there are many tasks you must juggle to do this, these five tips will help you stay grounded as an entrepreneur: 1. Stephen Sheinbaum founded Bizfi as Merchant Cash and Capital in 2005. As an entrepreneur, your days will be filled with surprises and unexpected lessons.

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