Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Speakers: - Bob Dahl, HBS Alumni Angel, formerly head of Global Healthcare for the Carlyle Group. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Click here to make a reservation.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2012 she was announced as one of the Young Global Leaders by World Economic Forum. 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”. My global network, for sure.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

They were joined by a third co-founder, Nathan Blecharczyk, who brought programming expertise. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. For me, it was a true déjà vu experience.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. Akamai: The Present.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Working directly with other CEOs and founders, I receive immediate feedback and appreciation for my expertise. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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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). I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. 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.

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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.,

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. It was 1999. After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there. They were posting constantly updated photos of their coffee pots.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

about Moshe Lichtman, and why he is one of few men or women capable of leading an Israeli startup to global billions. He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international.

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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. My parents were also small business owners.

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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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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. A number of the funds we studied use an origination approach that allows them to proactively co-create companies or opportunities. iv] Economist, Global Heroes: A Report on Entrepreneurship, March 14, 2009., May 3, 2009.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. The founders have started companies before. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

Can any other organization offer a kinesthetic and whole-brained process for turning global trends into new strategies and breakthrough ideas for your organization? ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Netscape Navigator…

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. How did you go from VC to founder?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

Julius Talvik is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Unison , a brand innovation company in Washington, DC, that develops physical and digital products for companies around the world. In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience. Where do we go from here?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999. President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.

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