Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). In fact, according to new data from a recent j2 Global survey , Gen-Y is undergoing a significant career shift today, trending away from applying for jobs and toward launching businesses of their own. Keep calm and carry on. How about you?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a startup that proclaims to be cash-flow positive, but actually makes just enough money to cover basic living expenses, such as toilet paper, running water and instant ramen noodles for survival (no salary for the founders). This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. I combined those 2 things to come up with “FOUNDER FREEDOM ”. Thanks to Rachel Whynot, FOUNDER FREEDOM ! #22- Photo Credit: Matt Segal. 22- Shortened words. Photo Credit: Jared Fisher.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Most recently, I met up with one of the founders of the Arbor Brewing company, Rene Greff. Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. The Arbor Brewing company also has a microbrewery and has recently established global presence in India.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. Probably as a function of the gold standard (global price of gold as the trading valuation mechanism) with some form of digital instant and unseen conversion from our home currency into some quantum derived from gold. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. That actually wasn’t the biggest.

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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., Stock Quotes.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

The founders amaze me with how quickly they have expanded and developed — they do this while having full-time jobs and being under the age of 25…what?! You’ll probably hear founder, Jane Hervey asking the crowd to “embrace the awkward,” and introduce yourself to somebody new. I knew I had found my group! They are killing it.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. The 2018 Global Coworking Survey shed some light on the numbers behind who uses coworking spaces.

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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. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. 13 years later, GMR Web Team is the face of my business while Global Marketing Resources is just a legal entity that owns GMR Web Team.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. Specific benefits of global internet marketplaces: Increase wealth distribution (all examples).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

“You’re talking about a generation that has seen what happened with their parents and Enron, and what happened in 2009 and 2010—the traditional workforce eroding before our eyes,” says YEC founder Scott Gerber. A global rethinking of economic growth amid mounting environmental concerns. Instability is here to stay.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. GMR stands for “Global Marketing Resources.”

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. The founders have started companies before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

A report by the McKinsey Global Institute says there’s “an opportunity to raise the productivity of interaction workers—high-skill knowledge workers, including managers and professionals—by 20 to 25 percent.” That may explain why after he became Co-Founder and CEO of ACT!, For more on the staggering cost of business email, go here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Compliance laws reach a global market, so let’s visit a few that affect any international email your marketing team sends. Global SPAM Laws. If you’re larger than a mom and pop shop, complying and understanding global laws is pertinent to your bottom line. But these guidelines don’t stop at the U.S. Use the Double Opt-in Method.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. trillion global industry, but I find most of the content is, well, misleading. The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires * – explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from WWII to 1995.

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