Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M May 26, 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

It’s a very important concept for me because in a startup you are constantly under pressure and have way too many distractions. Commitment & urgency are key drivers of success in startup businesses. I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. You already know it from your personal lives.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! It compares a 2013 smart phone (an iPhone) to what you had to carry just 10 years earlier (in 2003) to have some of the same tools (camera, video, music, etc.). 1gjvtHz. .

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For startups and entrepreneurs, awareness of the stock exchanges will help prepare you for a potential public financing of your company through an initial public offering, known as an IPO. TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange, 2003). The post The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

Image by Origa via Wikipedia I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 They focused on small advertisers looking for bargains. The model was a perfect fit for the Internet Age.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 15, 2011

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 28, 2013

The lean startup – as envisioned and explained by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur, associate professor at Stanford University and ReadWrite contributor – is no longer just for startups. The Evolution Of The Lean Startup. The lean startup model is not new. Companies are facing continuous disruption.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. So I’ve always had this in mind with me at startups. I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2013

If your startup has made it far enough to expand and still keep its doors open, then you have already passed one of the biggest entrepreneurial challenges that exist. Treating an enterprise the same as a startup will not only curb success, but it can also send your company right into shutdown. This post is presented by FedEx.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Just like a startup. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. different processes.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While the first e-cigarette dates back to the 1960s, it would take a few decades before the first modern vapes to the United States were created in 2003. The post How to Start a Business in the Vaping Industry appeared first on The Startup Magazine. First, a Brief History. It grew from there. By 2015, the market brought in $3.7

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Amar Vig, London-fs ! #25-

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. How did the site come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. overnight success entrepreneur startup Seth Godin business' He later changed the name to Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

It’s not easy giving up on the original plan but startups are so lean that they can only execute on one plan at a time. Knowing how and when to go toe-to-toe with titans or insurmountable odds is an enviable and sought after trait for the startup CEO and his team. If you’re exiting one industry for another, let go of what once was.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2020

In this article, we’ll take a look at the wider view and, some of the things that make international scaling difficult for startups. A lot of startups fail to take into account the cost of scaling internationally. Too many startups fail to do their homework when it comes to doing business in a different country. Source: Pixabay.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

The following week she sent me this email (my emphasis): Ever since accidentally stumbling upon lean startup 1+ years ago, I’ve struggled to implement the principles correctly. Methods of reaching consumers change every year (compare SEO or AdWords strategies from 2003 and 2010). What did they do before you came along?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. Most startup companies address a wide market and thus cater to a diverse audience, and these types of companies benefit from a team that brings myriad experiences and viewpoints to the table.

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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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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Quantitative goal-setting, setting stretch targets — these principles are as evident in the 2020s as they were when I arrived in 2003. Now we have software startups who have basically built their business around OKR-style planning! is a software startup making it easier for companies to manage and monitor their AI/ML models.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. And today, AngelList is opening the platform up to all startups with top-tier investors. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Aileen Lee of early stage fund Cowboy ventures wrote a post for Techcrunch yesterday looking at the characteristics of 39 startups founded since 2003 that are worth over $1bn. Fred’s Hackpad lists $1bn+ value companies founded after 2003 and founded before 2003.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

Whether you’re running a consultant agency or building a startup, your content and brand need a home for everything you produce. If you’re a lean startup just starting, there’s much less inertia to overcome. First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

So as a startup CEO you constantly have to suspend disbelief. ” A startup CEO’s job is to absorb stress so the team doesn’t have to. Startups have to be optimists because no rational person would actually believe you could build Uber into the amazing company that it is today. We just need your $500,000!!”

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company. It has been a rocket ship from there. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003. Thinking Aloud entrepreneur founder leadership management startup theSwizzle'

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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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Software By Rob

JANUARY 25, 2012

Indeed, I did buy my latest startup, but the deal was done from a spare bedroom of my suburban home in Fresno, California for less than most people pay for a new car. In Search Of… So that’s an intro to my startup philosophy, but where was I? My Background. Aaaah yes…the search.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

Image via Max Pixel A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?”

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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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