Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business.
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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Campus Entrepreneurship
DECEMBER 23, 2010
When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), 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.
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.
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.
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.
View from Seed
JANUARY 26, 2016
There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.
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