Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

We could either have the name represent our service, represent our values, represent us as founders, or just be a word without any other associations. (We We dug in deep looking for names that would somehow represent some part of us as founders. We began by creating multiple categories to start filling with ideas.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Term Sheet Venture Capital Limited Partner 218

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

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. Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This is John Jantsch.

CTO 80

CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 80

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. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. to date from some of the best, including most recently Workday and others.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

I wish I could claim I deftly foresaw this, but I was just seeking recurring revenue to to cover OneMatchFire’s office expenses. By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

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. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

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.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The co-founders that shook the world Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. How to find a co-founder. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups. Guest post by Paul Higgins*.

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Cofounder Founder Lean Engineer 119

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. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

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. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

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). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO. Congrats! .

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

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Retention Developer Customer Programming 115

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 112

Retention Developer Customer Programming 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 105

Retention Customer Developer Programming 105

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. Specifically for the mobile games, worldwide revenue is forecasted to surge from US$13.2 billion to US$22 billion.

Singapore 145

Singapore Mobile Thailand Vietnam 145

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).

Technical Cofounder 45

Technical Cofounder Cofounder IPO Boston 45

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

It’s too bad, because a report by local & small business locator, Manta.com found that 61% of the small businesses surveyed indicated more than half of their revenue comes from repeat customers. As a founder, one of the most painful things in the world to hear is criticism of your baby. Do you think they even notice when you leave?

Retention 98

Retention Developer Customer Programming 98

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Those dreams can fuel any business as it secures loyal customers and achieves a consistent revenue stream, but that may not be enough to take it to the next level: its transformation into a larger company. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success.

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Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. Sorry, brah.”

Startup 417

Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Unfortunately they will be very expensive (30-50% or more of gross revenue). The best early PR is a product that people actually love plus a genuine story to tell from the founder. He basically outsources everything.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Basically, Harmonix tried to go out of business every year between 1995 and 2005 and just managed to fail at that, always coming up with a new revenue deal or a small amount of financing to stay alive before it became an overnight success in 2005 with the original launch of Guitar Hero. Magazine long form story titled Just Play.

Colorado 70

Colorado Angel Investor Boston Finance 70

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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France Spain Stock Cofounder 88

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining?

Burn Rate 150

Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

From the standpoint of a founder, the life of a venture capitalist can seem very, very different. But at the end of the day, I’ve learned that being a partner at a successful early-stage VC firm is not quite as different from being a founder as you might think. It certainly did to me when I was an entrepreneur. Waiting game.

Partner 138

Partner Burn Rate Early Stage IPO 138

Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal Hurt Founder and CEO Bazaarvoice, Inc. We’ve also had regular stand-up meetings since the beginning of data.world, which was inspired by my co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Jon Loyens. he’s our incredible Chief Revenue Officer.

Conversion 48

Conversion Email Cofounder Mobile 48

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Also, at the head of these ambitious ventures is the founder, taking on the tasks of the CEO, president, and even a few other executive positions rolled together in one hyper-stressful package. This was most eloquently put by the late and great Steve Jobs in a commencement address at Stanford in 2005. Be The Hungry Wolf.

San Diego 176

San Diego Startup California Restful 176

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. Otherwise, start looking for funding elsewhere.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance Security 113

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

By Jonathan Barsade, founder and CEO of Exactor. The Tax Foundation, a tax policy research organization, found that the total number of words in the Internal Revenue Code & Regulations grew from 1.39 million in 1955 to over 9 million words in 2005. Jonathan Barsade is founder and CEO of Exactor, Inc.,

Connecticut 160

Connecticut CPA eCommerce Florida 160

SiliconHills

AUGUST 24, 2012

This morning, I spoke with Dan Graham, co-founder and CEO of BuildASign.com, about the Austin-based company’s expansion into the consumer market. BuildASign.com, launched in 2005, makes signs, bumper stickers, magnets, banners and more for the business market. The privately held company expects to do $30 million in revenue this [.]

Marketing 69

Marketing Cofounder Austin Revenue 69

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Buzz, as most call him, has simplified digital marketing success with The Rule of 26 and is on a mission to double the website revenue of service-centric businesses across America. Ashlee Berghoff, MBA, is the founder of A Squared Online. Our Founder and fearless leader, Denise W. 20+ books sold. Stephanie Scheller. John Gibson.

Paraguay 84

Paraguay Cofounder Cleveland Email 84

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 other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

million in 2005. Revenues have continued to increase every year and investors couldn’t be happier with what brave Mr. Drexler has done for J. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date.

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Bankruptcy Texas Venture Capital Naming 180

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

To catch you up, here’s a brief summary of TinySeed: TinySeed is a remote accelerator designed for SaaS founders seeking mentorship from world-class experts, community with other talented founders, and enough funding to live for a year. Previously On.TinySeed. Would love to chat and see how/if we can help.

Early Stage 46

Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. He's a co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world's largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Marketing Podcast with Dan Franks. This is John Jantsch.

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Audio CPA Technical Review Hosting 50

Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

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. In 2005, he and Keywell started Echo Global Logistics, a business-to-business online logistics and trucking firm that they took public in 2008.

Cofounder 61

Cofounder Chicago Founder IPO 61

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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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98