Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. 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.,

Silicon Valley 42

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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

Crowdfunding is an extremely bad name for this process. Well, it’s a good name from a marketing point of view, but it’s misleading. While there is a place for founders on crowdfunding platforms, they’re not a must. Can you imagine the headline “A [new gadget] was pre-ordered by 2000 users on eBay!”? Think again.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Finally, I HATE the name. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. My bet: within 18 months they will change the name and go multi-stream.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Mastering SEO in the Age of AI written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing  The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Stephan Spencer, an acclaimed SEO expert and founder of net Concepts, an interactive agency specializing in search engine optimization.

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SEO ChatGPT Technical Review Search 60

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

She's named one of the top 10 content marketers to Follow in 2023, and is best known for teaching powerful content strategies that bring real business revenue and growth, and now how to use AI to 10 x your blog and content authority, volume and traffic. And I definitely was tough on the founder. I ask all these founders questions.

SEO 62

SEO Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Video 62

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. And we always hear that.

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Cofounder Security Founder Entrepreneur 60

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work).

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US. But it’s not quite that simple. link] Fred Destin.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so).

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

Technical Review 83

Technical Review Demand Cofounder Video 83

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. It was early 2000. They get a cheaper price, they wipe out much founder stock value and they reissue you new options. and more.

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. Still waiting for wearables: It feels like we are in early 2000′s phase for smart phones when it comes to wearable computing.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Valuation Software Review Social Media 100

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000.

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San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. << we then discussed the need to do trademarks on your company and your key brand names.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Valuation Stock Options 282

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

The early 2000’s was also when the likes of legendary serial entrepreneurs Musk, Branson, and Jeff Bezos founded their own space tourism companies. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B. Shepard, America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s spacecraft is known as the New Shepard.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

His name is often associated with other successful Israelis such as: Shai Agassi , Better Place founder and CEO and former next-in-line to become CEO of SAP, Safra Catz , CFO and co-president of Oracle, and David Perlmutter , an EVP of Intel and GM of Intel Architecture Group. The base of our industry is weakening.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As a percentage of total US employment, proprietors have steadily increased every year since 2000. The US labor force gained over 10 million more working proprietors between 2000 and 2012—with over 21% of working Americans receiving at least part of their income through self-employment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I’m sure many of you have heard his name. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Now look around.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 328

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

More than 2000 years after the first coin was minted in ancient Asia Minor, the world of dollar bills, central banks and the traditional banking system is being disrupted by cryptocurrencies – and there’s way more to this new world than just Bitcoin.

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Asia Global Community Naming 189

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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Audience Revenue Distribution Differentiation 88

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. My first was AI.implant in 2000, which allowed non-programmers to create and simulate huge crowds of interacting autonomous characters. Next would be Jensen Huang, the Founder & CEO of NVIDIA.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. Another important project was launched in 1999 at the UC Berkeley which has arguably become the most famous example of the volunteer computing model — the SETI@home program (if there’s a “@home” suffix in the name of a project it means that it involves exclusively home computers).

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2019

No longer just an auction site, eBay introduced the “ Buy it Now ” option in 2000. Company names like “Just Tables” or “Headphone Hut” will limit your ability to evolve and grow as new opportunities arise. Today, eBay is taking steps to elevate their overall user experience. Develop a brand that allows you to evolve. Craigslist.

Design 173

Design Audience Small Business Naming 173

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Domain Name/Basic Site.

Venture Capital 107

Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

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.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

Before we get into a debate about how much a founder should own, there’s a context implicit in the question that is easily overlooked. Now that we’ve established that, let’s talk about founder blind spots. That doesn’t make you a bad founder. And as for the founder incentive thing, I have two comments. Did you spot it?

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Cap Table Term Sheet Database Option Pool 78

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

by Scott Bennett, Founder and CEO of Skratch. Today’s teens face a trending decline in traditional summer jobs including lawn care help, food service attendant, and store cashier, to name a few. Since 2000, employment for teens between the ages of 16-24 has dropped 35% and with minimum wage soaring to upwards of $15.00

Demand 172

Demand Mobile Security Founder 172

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold.

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CTO Cofounder Networking Operations 79

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

Mike is also the founder of Profit First Professionals. He is also the founder of profit first professionals. And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. And the owner, his name's actually Stephen King. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Mike MCIT. It's a barbecue.

Employee 91

Employee Design Networking Differentiation 91

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Legal isn’t the whole issue with names. Lots of legal names work fine until you grow and run into somebody else with the same name, in the same business area, who had it first. But when they started to grow, Victoria’s Secret would have had legal right to force them to come up with a new name.

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Naming Oregon Idaho Silicon Valley 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 62

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dan is an entrepreneur, and angel investor and became a highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry and founder of SaaS academy after exiting three technology companies within a ten-year period. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast.

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Hiring Email Angel Investor Technical Review 75

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. How was VisionSpring named? We have come really far since then – next year is our 20 th year.

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Jordan Bangladesh India Mexico 78

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). I remember clearly a phone call on 12/1/2000 where Len called me from NYC.

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