Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

These periods of time can leave a founder very vulnerable in the future. I don’t know 100% that this is true in all 50 states (if any lawyers read this please put notes in comments section) but I’m pretty darn sure that this is statuary law in California. That’s the difference between a founder and a non-founder.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. I try to listen wherever I go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

The company expanded rapidly, growing from nine employees to 150 over the course of just five weeks. Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. Fred had had.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. The partners are currently in the middle of successfully raising their second fund. Alexia Tsotsis.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Every company I meet these days is grappling with this topic, from ESG to employee activism, to so much more.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic had an unexpected side effect – organizations that were reluctant to adopt home office and remote work had no other choice than asking their employees to work from home. ‘’ No doubt, remote workers need to have equal rights as in-office employees. Classifying Remote Workers.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The goal would be six-fold: Integrate adjuncts as partners with their entrepreneurship centers . Create a stream of translational entrepreneurship literature for practitioners (founders and VC’s.) . An adjunct is a non- tenure track , part-time employee. Create repeatable and scalable processes for onboarding adjuncts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- I started my business because I was a terrible employee. Our founders were tired of being lied to and ripped off by overpriced, green-washed brands filled with unnecessary chemicals. I remember moving to California almost 10 years ago and was completely overwhelmed.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

By Ali Behnam, co-founder of Riviera Partners. Prior to co-founding Riviera Partners , Ali Behnam co-founded and acted as EVP, Operations & Services at PeopleMover. Ali is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine with a BA in Economics.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. Thanks to Indira Hodzic, Image Spa Encinitas, California ! #8- Thanks to Jennifer Q Williams, Saint Louis Closet Co. ! #9- When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving. 9- A number of ways.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Feeling motivated by this realization, I connected with my brilliant Co-Founder Amy Yuan, who then built a massive database consisting of reviews, assessments, and scientific research related to skincare. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., California.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

But once in a while you do stumble upon a tale of an epic entrepreneurial struggle against all odds that revive your faith in the story of human resilience – “ Beyond the Pale: The Story of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co ” is one of those. He’s lived the near entirety of it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Find road-trip partners on Zimride. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Remember Kozmo.com, whose employees promised delivery of DVDs and ice cream in under an hour for free?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. A Sense of Purpose.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2023

And so we were driving from California to Canada in an rv and I read the book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I think, you know, over a two 10, day two, no, I used this two week trip. But the business that I started went from zero to 40 employees. And maybe somebody could be another partner. I think I read the book six times.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

SCORE.org A resource partner with the U.S. I've also recently created a private email discussion list for technology company founders at FounderList.com to network, share, and learn from each other. Small Business Administration, SCORE gives free advice to entrepreneurs.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Very cool concept and I want to thank the founder Adil Mohammed for inviting me to take part in it. I’ve learned this first hand from Mark Gerson, the founder of Gerson Lehrman Group. As the founder, you’re the number one sales person of the company and it is not a function you can outsource right away.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). This mistake, if left uncorrected, could have resulted in significant negative tax consequences for both our employees and the company.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I sat down with my partner and we brainstormed the name for our business. Instead, my producing partner suggester Corner Piece, Because we’re the piece you need to get everything started. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. Image Credit: Andrew Greer.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. BambooHR -Â Employee Records, Benefit Information, Payroll Data, etc. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Founder Equity Issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel. Factoid: 99% of its employees are musicians.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. high or high school with a PC in California in the early 80’s. My close friend Brian Moran (co-founder of BuildOnline) was an architect and is now a real estate developer and adviser. THE FIVE C’S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business. But first some background.)

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