View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Editor’s note: Understanding how to divide founder equity at a startup can be tricky, even to the point of reaching emotional riffs between founders. I like to say that “there are only co-founders” — it’s extraordinarily rare for a successful business to have just a sole founder.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

Eric demonstrated a unique passion for startups and entrepreneurship from an early age. 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). He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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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 Or, were they a sign that things were indeed changing, and if so, what was changing to lead to a rise in women founding startups or in investors funding women? Boris Wertz. Image credit Flickr.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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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. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Sachin Bansal.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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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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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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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. I'd put off the assignment to the last minute and focus my time and energy on areas I did well in: other subjects in school and founding a successful startup during my sophomore year of college.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 20, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. 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. The Power of Perception .

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Meet some of the incredible female entrepreneurs who have volunteered to work with the girls in Latinitas by serving as mentors, career presenters, and judges at our 2017 Startup Chica Conference. She decided to stay in Austin because of the exciting and dynamic startup culture. She is married with two beautiful children.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. 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. The Power of Perception .

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

Thanks to William Griggs, Virtual Reality Rental Co. ! #2- It is my belief that without a doubt blockchain and in particular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are going to play a massive role in the day to day working lives of entrepreneurs and founders of various tech & non-tech related startups and businesses.

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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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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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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). I still think it is the best chapter of any book on marketing that I’ve ever read. They didn’t listen to the power of word of mouth.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Today, a new wave of startups, like Airbnb, Uber and Kickstarter to mention a few, are making technology, information, funding and customers more accessible. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees.

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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.( The research suggested the best states for startup activity included New York, Memphis and Dallas. Contact dianemiddlebrooks@itascabank.com for more information.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. If youre reading this and dont agree, youre probably just not ready to do a startup and all the rationalizing in the world wont help. I co-founded FlightCaster. I hate the shroud of secrecy companies drape around their daily business, not just startups. humbledMBA.

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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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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

The startup ecosystem is often full of hyperbole, which is perfectly understandable when you think about it. 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. The Power of Perception .

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Cofounder Seed Stage Employee PR 100

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. How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. June 25, 2012.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups? I don’t know.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. The entire funding progression of startups pushed out to the right.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

And it’s possible to balance work and family when doing a startup. Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. She discovered that investment banking wasn’t for her, and chose to do a startup instead.

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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. In other words: It’s probably not the best name for an online data startup,” The Wall Street Journal says.

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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. recession in 2009.”.

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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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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. In simple terms the customer's risk of doing nothing has to be higher than the risk of buying software from an unknown startup.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. I guess that’s as far as I will be able to push my co-workers right now. Too many smart people liked it.

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