View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. The Power of Perception .

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. I was visiting the company post acquisition and wandering down the main hallway with the founder of the company we had just acquired. Founder: “You told me the wall needed to be painted.”

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. Each of the nine businesses listed below began in college, and in some cases, with no initial profit motive in mind.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. And even acquisitions painted as successes may look very different below the (typically confidential) surface. The Power of Perception .

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2015

While Lynda began offering online classes in 2002, my first taste of online education came from seeing Skillshare grow from it’s founding in 2010 from within the Carbonmade office (shoutout to the Skillshare founder, Mike Karnjanaprakorn).

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

When we bought the flooded, abandoned building that we’d restore and open as the *Elkhorn Inn* in 2002, we had basically one day to come up with our company name to meet a WV tourism deadline, and so named it for Elkhorn Creek which runs behind the building. Thanks to Devoreaux Walton, Distinct Personal Branding ! #10-

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

The company has been in stealth mode for the last couple months but I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about NextView’s investment in the company and our enthusiasm to be working with co-founders Dan Foody and Alex Cote. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago. Read More ».

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. AOL began integrating 5min Media’s video content on its sites through a commercial agreement executed prior to the acquisition.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

My business specializes in helping coaches and consultants upgrade and automate their client acquisition process, so that they can spend their time focusing on what they do best – helping their clients. Hence, it naturally made sense for me to include client acquisition in my business name. 8- From our tagline.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. I co-founded FlightCaster. Peter David responded: Inspired by this post, I wrote a blog post about stereotypic founder personalities. Some wouldnt, so I just asked them for general advice. Shocking, I know.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar.

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