Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Even in most of these cases, the original startup founders were pushed out, or heavily supplemented, with “experienced” executives. business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' After a record low of 39 U.S. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. IPO market is broken”, positioning their offering as an alternative to capitalize on the dwindling supply of smaller IPOs, pointing out that only 18 companies completed IPOs that raised less than $50M last year, versus 557 in 1996. Headcount. We need smarter humans than we did.”.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

” With Mattermark , I remember the moment clearly – I was at The Kitchen in Boulder with the founders (Danielle Morrill, Kevin Morrill, and Andy Sparks) and my partner Seth. There is a moment during the exploration of a new relationship where a switch flips and the answer is “I want to do this.”

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

To appeal to the digital natives born between 1996 and 2012 , it’s important to hire a marketer who understands the trends and values that are influencing this generation’s spending habits. Gen Z is mobile and tech/savvy, frugal, concerned about social and environmental issues, and less focused on brand prestige than previous generations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., As a result I got to see some deals and get involved with some deals and I made some investments with my own money.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Funds like First Round Capital, True Ventures, Foundry Group, HomeBrew, USV and many others are still run by the founders and are still on the mission they started. But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance. At Upfront Ventures, we defined our “shots on goal” strategy based on 25 years of experience (we were founded in 1996): We take board seats and consider ourselves company-builders > stock pickers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom.com , a boutique service connecting Small Businesses with Virtual Professionals across the country. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tom is CEO and co-founder of ASLAN Training, a global sales enablement company appearing nine consecutive years in the Selling Power Top 20. Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Marketing Podcast with Tom Stanfill. This is John Jantsch.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom.com , a boutique service connecting Small Businesses with Virtual Professionals across the country. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom.com , a boutique service connecting Small Businesses with Virtual Professionals across the country. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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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. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

by Scott Bennett, Founder and CEO of Skratch. Scott Bennett is the Founder and CEO of Skratch. Today’s generation of teens will be more prepared for the future work environment than the generations before them because of the accelerating gig economy.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It claimed that founding new businesses is not just a young persons game , but rather that the average age of a founder of a tech startup was 39. He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses (ie, ones with real revenues) is 39. founders startups infrastructure internet VC'

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. 1961- 1996. He’s the #1 LinkedIn Influencer of all time in page views, ahead of Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Mark Cuban, and President Barack Obama. It’s also a fast way to lose all your money.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

by Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! Ken Burke is founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! Entrepreneurs are, by nature, big thinkers and risk-takers. Visionary ideas and dreams of startup success are what keep us inspired. But most of us tend to counterbalance the creative instinct with second-guessing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Most small businesses and startups do not have a dedicated human resource professional to manage the endless details of benefit plans, recruiting, payroll, and records keeping so those tasks typically fall to a founder or general manager. A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. had an average age of 39 when they started their companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley. The investors were giving away part of their ownership of the company — not just to the founders, but to all employees. Here’s why.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2017

It’s titled This Man Makes Founders Cry. I’ve known and worked with Jerry since 1996. Jessi Hempel from Backchannel just wrote an amazing profile piece on my close friend Jerry Colonna. Medium estimates that it’s an 18 minute read and I assert that it’s worth every minute.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The founder Jeff Hyman is a long time friend (I was a seed investor in his first company in 1996) and is incredibly passionate about Retrofit and what he and his team is doing. If your have been struggling to lose weight for a long time, give Retrofit a try.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007. In the first phase (1994-1996) this was $25k. In the 1994-1996 time period I decided to invest $1m in angel investments. Play the field – it increases your chance of hitting a monster and it’s a lot more fun.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) From 1996 to 2001, I spent a lot of time with Len in New York, where Interliant was headquartered.

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