abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). In 2008 Eric co-founded his own startup, RockMelt, and ran the company as CEO until its acquisition by Yahoo last year.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. Enter the Craziness. I protested, saying that I was too busy. Purpose: Free up time.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders. Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, the Chicago-based cofounders of the social coupon website, Groupon, turned down an offer from Google in early December.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Peter Gylfe. Jason Guss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Since its founding in 2002, Musk’s SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) has been at the forefront in the conceptualization and manufacture of efficient space rockets. Named after Alan B.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Find a technical co-founder. Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school.

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Programming Ruby Cofounder Algorithm 78

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. The two week trips turned into three week trips and we ultimately bought a house in Homer in 2002. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995.

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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. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation.

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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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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

But the first real time we had a big celebration and folks felt like we’d “made it” was the party we held in the parking lot on February 14, 2002 when PayPal went public. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Maria’s dad started Donn’s Bar-B-Que 35 years ago and Maria now co-operates the business alongside her parents.

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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. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Startup Employee PR 120

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

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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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( These small groups in confidential settings help dynamic female founders collectively ask questions for feedback to solve difficult issues when growing revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Veteran’s Day Spotlight: Serving in the Army Prepared Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty to Become Entrepreneurs by Faith Vera at Sputnik ATX Accelerator Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty , veterans and co-founders of Health Hat, are working together to bridge the gap between healthcare and business.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. Since 2002, Insomnia Cookies has grown into a large corporation, with its headquarters located in New York City and 20 branches in college communities across the country. Insomnia Cookies.

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Intellectual Property New York City Pennsylvania Cofounder 118

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. We went public in 2002 and eBay bought the company later that year for over $1.5 Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. technical co-founder). Many seed investors (as well as Series A investors) will back a founder at a very, very raw stage.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank. … . .”

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. What the big studies have shown. Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2014

It transformed my life – with one minor change of an MX record some time in 2002 all the spam in my inbox disappeared. Scott is the co-founder of Authentic8 , which we are also investors in. Let’s start with a brief history of my investment-led fight against the perils of spam and my never-ending love of SMTP.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This week, we again present Larry Page , co-founder of Google and a brilliant entrepreneur. Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Scott [link].

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

This is why Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining became 3M in 2002 and why Kentucky Fried Chicken adopted KFC in 1991. Survey as many people as you can,” Bridie Loverro, co-founder of QuadJobs, told Winfrey. Be careful with terms that have possible suggestive, embarrassing or otherwise negative meanings. Avoid geographic words.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Konga is another investor darling.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. The “Many Unicorn founders …” quote is the first of four emotional biases that Bill calls out. Fred Wilson’s daily post referred to the article in Don’t Kick The Can Down The Road.

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