Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Estimated 15mm downloads to date.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single. Or, if you want to enter the contest through the web, click here. ** News Release *. ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. .” KILN launches IdeaKeg(tm) Single.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

AUGUST 27, 2011

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. Hahaha, I laugh because later in his talk he mentions another website with a long name. One idea that never took off was NameMyThingey.com where you can crowdsource business names.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. ” Big or small, you could build whatever you wanted on the World Wide Web.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

He has a series of this name and you can see us discussing the topic on YouTube. I programmed since the time I was seven-years old, as I explain in my blog post on why I named this blog?—?Lucky7?—?in As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. in honor of my mother.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999, long time ago. And then once, once we have that, then we're looking at ways to translate those into technical artifacts on the web that Google can see. I mean, people that you, you know, we all think about the, oh, you know, the top 10 names, every single person can name.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. And then once, once we have that, then we're looking at ways to translate those into technical artifacts on the web that Google can see. I mean, people that you, you know, we all think about the, oh, you know, the top 10 names, every single person can name.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

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. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years. Rockmelt and the next wave of innovation.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. You can probably think of household names in each of those categories.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I played around on BBS’s when I was growing up in the late ’80s and of course the foundations of the web were laid even before that by the military and academic institutions. You can probably think of household names in each of those categories.

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www.volkside.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founder bio. Great ramp-up experience on the new Flickr photo page » < Blog < Home How to name your product, service, or startup. When creating something new it is essential to name it. Photo credit: No Name Street © 2009 Electropod. Naming is tough. A naming process. Check domain names.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company. As for the final ‘P’, Miller recommended that founders simply live in a place they love.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I wrote my web copy myself, did my web design myself and officially launched in October 2010.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 29, 2013

One of the thoughtful notes I got was from Scott Petry – one of my good friends and co-founder of Authentic8 (we are investors). While controversial in 1999, DNS redirect-based services have become accepted across all ports and protocols. You need to know the host names of your service, the ports, encryption values, etc.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. I do that by writing for them; web content, blogs, articles, marketing collateral, and the like. . #8 – Almost By Mistake.

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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. All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. I almost didnt realize it, but theres no escaping the math.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today, crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 online marketplace for creative services ranging from graphic, web and industrial design to copywriting services. For buyers, it is a place to post a creative project, name their own price, watch the world contribute ideas and choose the one they like best. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The largest unicorns include companies such as Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Snap, and if we think back in time a bit to the name coined, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, and so forth also come to mind. BUT if your venture won’t thrive on Sales but rather as a web based SaaS, start driving leads via the web!

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

We as marketers operate in an industry obsessed with content that is “buzzwothy”, “viral”, and all other sorts of names that aim to describe a single scenario: getting people to talk about your business. As an example, let’s look at the fitness market.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

To simply connect to the web with dial up took ‘minutes’ and now it takes 4 seconds to download a 2 hour movie using 5g. After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. How Big is Big Tech really?

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