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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. Part lifestyle choice, part time management, part promotion and marketing, and part entrepreneurship, the book advocates minimizing the time invested in traditional jobs. Enter the Craziness. Purpose: Free up time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

With the speed of change and volume of market feedback today, as well as the advances in machine learning, Amazon, Alibaba, and others have proven the value of software driven strategy decisions. This is a new class of software that can adapt in real time to market changes. The efficiency gain is tremendous.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners.

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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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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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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.) Capitulation in markets is one of those endless lessons that gets learned over and over and over again. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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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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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

Bill Gurley wrote an incredible post yesterday titled On the Road to Recap: Why the unicorn financing market just became dangerous … for all involved. “Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. It’s long but worth reading every word slowly.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Neuroscience Solutions Corporation (founded in 2002 and rebranded to BrainHQ ), Lumosity (founded in 2005) and Fitbrains (2007, now a Rosetta Stone company) are the most well known examples of second wave cognitive gaming. From this, we can see the third wave of cognitive games designed to take advantage of this market.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors. We recently led a large seed round for an autonomous vehicle company called Optimus Ride.

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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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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

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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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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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. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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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. Nigeria itself is home to 170 million people, a figure that is expected to rise to 400 million by 2050, and the biggest market in Africa. Slowly overcoming its reputation. Konga is another investor darling.

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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. Make sure your naming extends beyond the local market. Avoid geographic words. Online Research.

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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. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers, Scott [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. What will be covered in the full-day program?

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We have been the global market leaders in email deliverability since my co-founder George Bilbrey coined that term back in 2002. We’re establishing ourselves as the global market leaders in email intelligence. Meanwhile they face new challenges in addition to the ones email marketers have been battling for years.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2012

On Women: Leading, Mentoring and Changing the Face of Business This content from: Duct Tape Marketing. million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S., Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Matt Briel In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Matt Briel. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. (00:50): Great episode.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 6, 2011

This week, we present Sean Parker, a brilliant entrepreneur and visionary; the co-founder of Napster and Plaxo ; and the former President of Facebook. Each week, we share a favorite video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. at 20:52) “[Facebook] was a real long shot.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

From DeSantis : Investments in education-technology companies nationwide tripled in the last decade, shooting up to $429-million in 2011 from $146-million in 2002, according to the Na­tional Venture Capital Association. This isn’t the first ed-tech boom to crowd the market with companies whose names sound alike.

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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. The second project is when you start to sense that maybe a real market exists. Photo by LotusHead.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 29, 2018

The Cocoonsie is the world’s most functional, around the house, wearable blanket on the market today! Our name, Lubanzi, comes from a wandering dog that followed me and my co-founder on a 6 day, 100 mile trip hiking across South Africa’s remote Wild Coast. Thanks to Monica Sanita, Siempre Spirits Limited ! #3-

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

First, just to provide a foundation here, Bazaarvoice was named after Chapter 4 of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (available for free online), “ Markets Are Conversations ”. I still think it is the best chapter of any book on marketing that I’ve ever read. Do yourself a favor and read “Markets Are Conversations” if you never have?—?it

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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). I grilled him about the market, what was out there, how well the companies are doing and so on.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I was at a crossroads in my career and debating about starting my own sales and marketing consulting business. I’ve come up with my business name: Ebooks4fashion, because I wanted to create a platform of fashion marketing that helps fashion entrepreneurs, most women to start or to grow their business, through ebooks and online courses.

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