Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. 22 – To Help People.

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Perhaps it represents what drove you to become an entrepreneur in the first place. Writing a business plan can help make sure Office Space doesn’t feel relatable [ source ].

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% We have published some research on this topic elsewhere, which I will summarize briefly below. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Or simply not having to worry about your finances in general? A study by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor found that 73 percent of entrepreneurs fund their ventures through their own savings, an average of $15,000. Lessons from successful entrepreneurs. He has read many books on investing, personal finance, and business.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 3, 2011

This has been going on for at least a quarter or two, but the velocity of it seems to have picked up with a wave of high priced financings along with large financings for nascent companies. But more interestingly I saw it in my twitter feed from some entrepreneurs and VCs who I respect a lot.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Today is Finance Friday and post #2 has been drafted by the Finance Friday team from University of Chicago Booth and is waiting for my edits. I’m procrastinating so I thought I’d write one of my periodic public service announcement for entrepreneurs. As an entrepreneur, this was all noise. Down – cranky.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. And if you’re a startup CFO, finance lead, bean counter, or presentation slide deck preparer, then you should read this book. Entrepreneurs: Don’t Quit Your Real Job Too Early. I like that.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, I’d like to start by sharing the story of a female entrepreneur who did experience VC funding success—but still also felt the impact of the biases held by the industry. A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. A rare success.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2018

This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings. If you lived through the Internet-bubble between 1999 and 2002 you know this cycle well. And, you know that the companies that survived it were the ones with very strong fundamental businesses (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” I will speak with people earning good money at a larger company or even well-financed startup who are mulling over the choice of whether or not to quit.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. I met a lot of really bright people that were passionate about and experienced in helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses. Page 2: What’s unique about Koral. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). I also wanted to convey an aspect of my business and what it offered, which in my case is information and assistance when it comes to personal finance. people tried to visit the website. Photo Credit: Ronika Khanna.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# I hope to offer experiences from being an entrepreneur and being a VC.&#.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. What can I say, none of us were finance majors.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Does it hurt ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs? Next, I would push ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs to remove the convenient (and often true) excuses for not warranting investment. I know we romanticize the LGBT entrepreneur making an app for the LGBT community, but too many of our ideas are “ghettoized” and not seen as “big ideas”.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We led a $7m financing in the leader in digital dog boarding that connects dog owners with approved, reviewed, and insured sitters. Seth and I worked together on ServiceMagic in the 1999 – 2004 time frame (IAC acquired it in 2004 for $180m) so we had a deep understanding of how a heavily metric-based buy/sell marketplace worked.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And, rather than rational and helpful thoughts for entrepreneurs, it often brings out the schadenfreude in even the most talented people. We entrepreneurs have been spinning that line for decades in every boom cycle. Until you are consistently generating positive cash flow, you depend on someone else for financing.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. Seth also worked as an Auditor for United Government Services, a division of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Wisconsin auditing Medicare cost reports under contract with HCFA (Health Care Financing Administration) from 1996 to 1998.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For decades, technology entrepreneurs have had an affinity for pirates. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market. Bryce is a bit like the entrepreneurs I search for. In other words, in a strong market even turkeys can fly. I love that.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Renmin University was among the first universities to create a venture capital major in the School of Finance and teach venture capital for undergraduates. My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. Venture Capital is a popular buzzword in China.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

But they choose to invest in local businesses because they will make better investment decisions when they know the entrepreneurs, their friends and advisors, and where they can have more frequent face to face contact post-investment.). Sometimes the companies simply struggle and grow as best they can with inadequate financing.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

Coupled with my love of finance, I merged the two words, Jellyfish + Finance, and created Jellifin. Back in 1999 I was trying to think of a clever way to use my name Ina(rhymes with Lena) on my AOL Instant Messenger screenname in college. Thirty minutes went by, and I saw a picture of a jellyfish flashed across the TV.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Investors can tap this network for executive talent, followon financings, and eventually an exit. The Foursquare financing was among the most competitive early round financings I’ve seen in a long time …. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. But before Google became the giant corporation that it is today, it was almost sold for a shy $1 million to Excite CEO George Bell in 1999.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. 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. » More. Loading… Markets. » More.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably heard some crusty old CEO or investor say something like “cash is king.” I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. There are many examples of companies that finance their way through massive profitless growth.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. .” (iii) “Roughly 600,000 new businesses (that employ others) are started each year in the U.S.” . (iv) … Four of the twenty companies with the largest market capitalization in the U.S. (vi)

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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. Last fall I saw a startup with it’s back against the wall, days from shutting down, pull off a new financing round and what looks to be a promising pivot.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And you would think I would have created a financial model showing my growth potential and financing needs. It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). back to August 1999. It was August 1999. But in reality, I didn't do any of this.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! For example, our company finances renewable energy installations (solar, fuel cell, etc.) By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). Sometimes that can be hard.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I freely admit this (along with nearly everything between 1999-2000) was a mistake. You also understand that there are future financing rounds and in tough times this can change the value equation of stocks. But I thought I should do a quick post on the topic. Some founders err on the side of telling employees absolutely everything.

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