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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. Our third co-founder, Aron Yechezkel, joined us at the end of 2015 and we have been working together since then, and now as Sceenic. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. In two years she has hired eight full-time employees, secured lucrative government contracts, and is able to support seven households besides her own in Amman. She is even mulling a run for office in the gas providers’ union.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

Simply put, smart businesses tend to follow the money, and sometimes that means growing into a business the founders hadn’t ever imagined. Through a series of investments and buyouts, the company that started in 1870 first selling radios, and then rubber and tires, became a government aerospace contractor in the 1990s.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. Indeed, the federal government has an entire site dedicated to “helping U.S. This is no longer the case.

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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., Stock Quotes.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. My fiancé is one of the best ideation consultants in the world (the brain), he was a top rated mentor at Founder Institute and has built and sold numerous successful businesses. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

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. The new CEO then drove out the founders of the business and the business hasn’t recovered since.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. It was 1999. To put everything I’d learned through my SocialNet experience into another shot on goal as a founder. One guy named Jeff had even launched what he then called “Earth’s biggest bookstore.”

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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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. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Dara is a steady, capable, well-respected executive, which will be important as he works to turn around Uber’s woes, including multiple lawsuits, government investigations, a troubled culture, and most recently, simply astonishing board shenanigans. But failing to make the transition from pirate to navy can lead to disaster.

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I’m talking about the conscious and/or subconscious beliefs that act as a lens through which we see ourselves and the world, and therefore govern all our decisions – including whether or not entrepreneurship is for us. Richard Liew is founder and editor at NZ Entrepreneur. What do I mean by mindset? Send them this article.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. It is important governments don’t simply provide healthcare, education, defence and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. And when you further strip out any employment created by government stimulus that is uncertain to continue going forward we know that the country is not creating enough jobs. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. Sound familiar?

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. And then small businesses start to use it. Marc Andreessen: Versus trickle-down.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 18, 2010

That’s why I sat on the board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs in 1999 in Silicon Valley when I started my venture career, and continue to support women entrepreneurs through Astia , Girls in Tech and a host of other organizations.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

But the roots of Austin’s liberal culture run deeper than governance and academia — they are intertwined with city’s unique music scene, which forms the foundation of Austin’s barn-building ethos. Tech is absolutely a boon the city — the city has doubled in size since 1999 on the back of countless new tech jobs.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The weird part is that USA and China both surveil their citizens, though the Chinese government isn’t making a secret of tracking their citizens, while the USA is pretending it’s about security when clearly it’s not. power than elected governments. I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. Facebook goes public.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

We have companies that became valuable through founders that sacrificed for years and through hard work – and partly through luck – achieved great things. It seemed like a message in a bottle opened from a shipwreck in 1999. He smiled midway through my story and said, in broken English, “oh, you have unicorns!”

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