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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”).

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

Fred Wilson was his lead investor. I was the lead investor for Veripost. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”).

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process.

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Kernel column: Falling share prices at leading tech companies don’t mean the end of the world

The Equity Kicker

You can see from the chart below that the share prices of high-profile internet companies Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga are down 48-60 per cent over the last three months. Secondly, many of the problems are limited to one aspect of the start-up ecosystem: late-stage funding for some consumer internet companies.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked. And this was mid '90s internet kind of philosophy. And they believed.