Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This will continue as more role models, mentors and capital are created from the resulting success stories, thereby creating more support for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Kiva pioneered the concept, allowing individuals to lend or donate small amounts online (as little as $25) to entrepreneurs around the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63. You need to work through a team of underwriters, who administer the public issuance and distribution of securities from a corporation. The market is moving back up, but slowly. Is your spotlight bright enough to start a new wave?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

As we all know, the last ten years has seen a near-total collapse of the innovation cost curve, thanks to the perfect storm of open-source, cloud infrastructure, and “free” global distribution via search, social and app stores. Don’t interpret this as a sign of laziness: many VCs work very hard.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. I’d like to think that I worked hard, but I was probably in the middle of the distribution of my colleagues at both PayPal and LinkedIn in terms of work ethic… neither the slacker nor the hardest worker.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

At Lightspeed we invest in the entrepreneur and the first thing we do is install a Batphone. What I mean is we strive to be the entrepreneur’s first call. And the importance of not just thinking like an entrepreneur, but rolling up our sleeves and being an entrepreneur — to be builders of great companies with great founders.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Out of necessity. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students. I’ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

Appsumo is an daily deals website for the coolest web apps and other digitally distributed goods. This is what they say about themselves: We are an distribution channel for companies that help entrepreneurs start, grow, optimize, and scale their businesses. Borderless world. Image credit. Case #1 – Appsumo.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. I’ll give you two examples to bring this to life. . So the first one is Netflix.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Advisory Board. He's awesome.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Wang, whose resume includes stints at companies like Microsoft and Cisco, co-founded one of China’s first e-commerce sites in 1999. million buyers and distributes goods to 224 countries, with North America and Europe among its largest markets. Wang believes that having a dream is the number-one prerequisite for being an entrepreneur.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many modern entrepreneurs have limited exposure to the notion of failure or layoffs because it has been so long since these things were common in the industry. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Mark Zuckerberg (despite all criticisms he gets) has proved to be the most nimble and decisive entrepreneur of this generation. Lock users into proprietary rights management, distribution or consumption models? So do I believe that Facebook will lose in the end?

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

If you are an entrepreneur looking to raise your first round of funding ever, you surely must be curious about the different kinds of investors you will pitch. Typical first-time SV entrepreneurs are not millionaires, so let’s say you have 100k in the bank (maybe you’ve made some money from stock options). If so, when?

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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. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Luckily, Google was one of the 150 and did ultimately return the fund assuming the LP was smart enough to hold the stock after distribution. What does this mean for entrepreneurs and investors? By the way, this month is the 10-year anniversary of iControl's Series A financing and I haven't been able to get liquid on a single share.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. That’s the entrepreneur we are looking for.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Fundera – Single source online funding for entrepreneurs. Our Guests.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

Chen, who headed a trade delegation of 35 Chinese entrepreneurs from 12 of China’s largest companies to Israel, said Chinese enterprises and financial institutions are excited to collaborate with their Israeli counterparts. million registered members as of November 2010, was established in 1999 and recently hit its 10 million answers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. Distribution of media is tightly controlled by YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and a handful of others. Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Enter the decentralized Internet.

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