Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns. I could obviously go on.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

A few weeks ago, FG Press released the first book in its Techstars series titled No Vision All Drive: Memoirs of an Entrepreneur. Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). FG Press Books david brown david cohen fg press origin stories Techstars' for the Kindle version.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Instead, that’s the sort of pre-series-A investment where companies or founders have visions of where they think there are underserved market needs, and they’re coming up with something super excited to try to solve that. . It’s a skill.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? And you can tell that the founders have thought greatly about creating the right kind of space for startup companies.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. 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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Five years of hard work later, Stratajet is the result; the world’s first fully-automated private jet booking platform – the only system that can provide accurate availability and costs of private jets in ‘real-time’ Thanks to Jonny Nicol, Stratajet ! #5 So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

And then there are all the dating anecdotes from my six years in NYC (but that’s a very entertaining book and I’m digressing). Now, the present. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network. eBay is likely the most efficient “accelerator” to have existed to date.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Richard Branson’s recently released book Screw Business as Usual outlines how conscious capitalism can also be good for the bottom line. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I read many self-help books and learned to be grateful for my children and my successful career where I was a top earner and respected in my field being on the board of directors for a professional organization in my field. 3 – I was Fired Twice.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. When I started Coremetrics in 1999, Accel Partners wanted to invest in our Series A alongside Highland Capital Partners. But I learned later that I wasn’t as thorough as Scott Cook, the co-founder and initial CEO (now Chairman) of Intuit. and dangerous.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. In less than nine months after founding, I booked a $27 million quarter. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

As a result that led me to start my own business and co-write the bestseller, “ Unboss ”, because I felt like there was a need for organizations that were more independent and “free-spirited”. Spend money on travel, books, educators, mentors, health and mental health. I’ve also always hated organizations that are too “structured.”

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I followed her writing and bought her AOL book back in 1999. Just as importantly, she was an incredibly loyal and supportive friend and co-worker during really difficult times. Call it simplistic and naive, but being who you are, in my book, is always a winning strategy.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. In less than nine months after founding, I booked a $27 million quarter. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. To be honest, I would have gladly done so. With every startup came increasing responsibility.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. Growth has been flat-out explosive, with over two million room nights already booked. The website is clean and very intuitive—not surprising, I guess, when two of the founders are designers.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

An eponymous book (e.g. As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Scaling Akamai – Part 1: A Little Fat.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Setting up your financials, your cash flow, your “books”, correctly and accurately from the beginning will save you in almost every way. Next, we have Honor Lydon, co-founder and Executive Editor of BostonChefs.com. Financial Foundation. This is key. After all, if you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He’s the author of a new book we’re talking about called – The Bezos Blueprint: Communication Secrets of the World’s Greatest Salesman. Questions I ask Carmine Gallo: [1:57] Why did you choose Bezos to focus your book on? [6:20] 6:20] You start off the book with – “Simple is the new superpower.”

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In totality, these posts are at least as long as most business books. data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. I have lived this book?—?both

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Steven gave me an advance copy of the book.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. Our podcast then turned into a book and we were off to the races.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. It was 1999.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). This includes writing, art, books, Reiki, illustrations, tattoos, photos, radio, videos and you name it. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo! 27- Unusual way.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. These labor matches represent the exact “world is flat” reality outlined in Friedman’s book.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In addition to being a mom of four, Bailey is an author, hosts a radio talk show and multiple TV shows, runs a marketing business, and is the founder of BlueSuitMom.com and Smart Mom Solutions. Tory Johnson : Tory Johnson founded Women for Hire in 1999 in her apartment, balancing the demands of a new business with the care of twin toddlers.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

Fortunately Steve Schlenker, co-founder of DN Capital has captured most of them in his Quora answer to the question: How hard is it to be a venture capitalist. I’ve seen Mark post a few versions of this tweet over time and wanted to write a post about it. I agree with him, but the reasons are complex.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

We’re also rapidly becoming known as the go-to firm for training in innovation process and corporate storytelling (Kate Hammer’s StormForms is getting rave reviews, book her now or you’ll be talking 2014). ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve written close to 1,000 posts over the years, and the book became the impetus for a book that another friend and board member Brad Feld from Foundry Group encouraged me to write and helped me get published called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business back in 2013. But the company is unusual in many respects.

Syndicate 48

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve written close to 1,000 posts over the years, and the book became the impetus for a book that another friend and board member Brad Feld from Foundry Group encouraged me to write and helped me get published called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business back in 2013. But the company is unusual in many respects.

Syndicate 48

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

This “gain” ($34B last year alone) is a result of a direct wealth-transfer to these individuals FROM the previous owners of the company — founders, executives, employees, and venture investors. Is it disrespectful to imply that the founders, executives, VC-backers, and the boards of these companies are gullible or naive?

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