Women Entrepreneurs Can

JULY 2, 2019

Female entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise in the United States, with the number of women-owned businesses nearly doubling between 1997 and 2017. Black Female Founders. Today, almost 40 percent of the nation’s privately held companies are owned by women, and women launch an average of 1,000 businesses per day.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember the first time I read the Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997. Unlike corporate executives, founders are closer to artists than executives – they see things others don’t, and they spend their careers passionately trying to bring that vision to life. Therefore, for founders, entrepreneurship wasn’t a job, but a calling.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. some founders lose their life savings.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. He’s now in his middle 30s, has become known for his success as CTO of Huffington Post and as of this month as founder of rebelmouse.com. He worked for us remotely from New York.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2019

by Barry Stiles , founder and CEO of TRUEGRID Pavers. It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Another notable Austin-bred phenomenon is the Alamo Drafthouse — is cinema chain founded in 1997 that is famous for its food and drink service as well as maintaining proper cinema etiquette. Both Whole Foods and the Alamo go to show that Austinites are ready to give a warm welcome to innovative vendors.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. Here was a statistic that blew me away: over half of these companies (51%) had an immigrant founder. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004)

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Syed Balkhi, Founder of WPBeginner, Optinmonster. Sara Mohammadi, Co-Founder of Eventbox. ” Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group. Miko Branch, Co-Founder, and CEO, Miss Jessie’s. They opened a local salon in 1997 and did everything themselves. Like Musk, Sara Mohammadi is a doer. Go out there.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. The vision of sorting through receipts “mining” for deductions makes procrastinators out of all of us.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. I have two simple rules for founders in my head from this experience. Deal with reality as a founder as well as an investor group and avoid this complexity – just clean up your cap table instead.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ). Diego and I first met in 1997. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Huge congratulations to the entire IndexTank Team and especially to IndexTank’s founder Diego Basch (@ dbasch ). Diego and I first met in 1997. IndexTank (@ IndexTank ) has been acquired by LinkedIn ! I had recently finished the Master of Software Engineering ( MSE ) program at Carnegie Mellon and gone full time on my first startup.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Artful Thinkers remind us that the “crazy ones” – a term coined in the famous 1997 Apple ad — are people who change the world by taking a naïve stance, trusting in imperfection and their own visceral experience to journey from not knowing to partial knowing. Stepping Outside a Comfort Zone. Bob Deutsch Ph.D.,

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. Bobby is awesome and I’m really psyched he’s back in Boulder at CU.

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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. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise. We’re long on the team at Mapbox , and it’s obvious to me why Softbank is also enthusiastic.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. It’s counterintuitive, but Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos takes a totally different approach to hiring: he gives prospects a hiring anti-pitch.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

When I reread the plan several years ago for amusement, it motivated me to go dig up plans for other successful companies that I was a co-founder of or early investor in, including NetGenesis and Harmonix. By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. Advice For The Young At Heart business advice Marsha Friedman startup success women entrepreneurs women founders' And here’s more good news: Women are launching more businesses than ever – 1,288 a day, according to a recent analysis by American Express.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In the mid-1190s, the founder of Bre-X was David Walsh. By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 The thought of investing in oil, gold and diamonds can be tempting. Mr. Walsh falsely claimed that Bre-X found a gold mine in Burma. This mining scam is one of the most famous mining scams. billion.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. That trauma?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) A remarkable entrepreneurial story, similar to TripAdvisor and Akamai, where the founder (or near-founder in the case of Akamai's Paul Sagan) lead the business over many years. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0 Visionary CEO.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. How can an aspiring entrepreneur improve his or her own readiness to be a business founder? One of the underrated pillars of startup success is the concept of “founder readiness.&#

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Two Cornellians are partners there (Howard Morgan, one of the founders of the firm, and Bill Trenchard, who I once represented as his company’s lawyer when he was a Cornell student in like 1997! I just read a fabulous post from First Round Capital. – how time flies by… ). The post is titled State of Startups 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. Effective founders have a plan – they are focused and clear about what they intend to do and they commit wholeheartedly to that path.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. I [Reid] remember when Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky told me about the offer.).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When my motivation lags, I think about sitting across the desk from my last boss ever in 1997. Thanks to Melisa Celikel, Let’s Get You Organized ! #11- 11- Several ways. Photo Credit: Chelsea Rivera. Positive energy and a growth mindset are essential. Thanks to Amine Rahal, IronMonk Solutions ! #26- 26- I remember one instance.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. My co-founder and I started LaunchHouse, a coworking community, at the height of the Great Recession in 2008. Thanks to Dr. Dan Danyo, North Atlanta Hair Restoration ! #4-

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. The founders could have easily described the product as “the first packet-switched interactive messaging network.” RIM Interactive Pager 900. They did none of that.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We The offering to a consultant may affect your securities compliance in later offerings and will certainly add to further dilution to founders," Durkin says.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

It’s out of date now, but if you look for it, you can find the 1997 Dun & Bradstreet research on causes of business failure that listed “too much money&# as one of the causes. Tim Berry is the founder of Palo Alto Software, a co-founder of Borland International, and a recognized expert in business planning.

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