reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Investments from capital markets to real estate plummeted. What have entrepreneurs been up to since then? The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Sean Belnick.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Many of us had experiences of asking entrepreneurs, “Why are none of our candidates women?” Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. Well, did you ask them to???”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

A big turning point in Target’s success was adding affordable versions of designer merchandise made by big-name designers like Issac Mizrahi, Mossimo Giannulli, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte, and many more. chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. It wasn’t until Millard Drexler, former Gap Inc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You have to teach entrepreneurs how to fish rather than serving dinner for them. Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. — Teaching entrepreneurs how to fish. And wishing you had asked for help much earlier in a startup. Frank Rimalovski.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. At least later stage investors.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies. Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right?

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. Jalak means glimpse and is a word in Hindi (it’s not a traditional name) and has provided much entertainment to taxi drivers in Mumbai, camel drivers in the Rajasthani desert and countless others.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. The success of Serial, inspired a new wave of entrepreneurs. you need an app that streams podcasts (Apple has one by default). The second level?—?they’re they’re anonymous. As podcasts are a (relatively) new media format?—?their itunes.apple.com.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. For example, participants in one study were more likely to donate $5 to an African girl named Rokia instead of donating that money to millions of people who were suffering from severe hunger. Reveal certain details about yourself: Your name. Hobbies and interests.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. The problem is that the program simply attracts only "the best"--a group of entrepreneurs who, at first, self select and believe they fit this criteria and then displays whatever patters Paul Graham and his team believe to be indicative of success. She had flower sleeves of spectacular color. They need attention.

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Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I know it’s an uncomfortable contradiction because every time I talk to Andy Baio about it, the conversation starts with, oh, that name. Are you really going to use that name? Because that name. He doesn’t like the name. I get that he doesn’t like the name but that’s the point. It’s supposed to be uncomfortable.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. If you drop the sentimentality, a company is a merely a brand-name for a historical context.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. The success of Serial, inspired a new wave of entrepreneurs. Guy Raz again (from TED Radio Hour) interviews entrepreneurs for a candid chat on how they started and built their business. you need an app that streams podcasts (Apple has one by default).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Johnny Good post.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

A lot of entrepreneurs think they need piles of money to make their startup a success, but that’s not always the case. Opting to eschew the traditional road of venture capital funding, Tom worked both at GitHub and at a full time job, while Chris and PJ consulted on the side. Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed?

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. Sunday - September 28, 2003 at 03:37 AM in. To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. Gourmet Customer Service. buy it on Amazon. (in)Frequently Categories. Statistics.

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