Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. We ultimately had a good outcome with our Series A but I assure you it required some hard work and we faced plenty of skepticism. quite encouraging.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. All the other stuff Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. We just finished the second year in Boston. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I And how has it worked out? “It It has worked out great. So we had probably had well this is the fourth year we’ve done it in Boulder.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. The team’s success centers on favoring the metric of “getting on base” over “swinging for the fences.” Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Genuine VC

JANUARY 23, 2012

It’s perhaps an older example, but Bitpipe ( sold to TechTarget in 2004 ) did just that in becoming the largest distributor of IT white-papers which attracted CIO buyers. And with an audience of hungry buyers circling, supply is much easier fill. Brute force a mini-market and expand.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Campus Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

From the Boston Business Journal (btw, does your school have a manager of entrepreneur development?): Klein-Marmer joined Babson’s Graduate School Center for Career Development in 2004, most recently working as associate director with students interested in technology, life sciences, energy and entrepreneurial careers.

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Developer Management Boston Entrepreneur 44

thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I tried calling my boyfriend at the time, who split his time between NYC and Boston, and was scheduled to fly to Boston that day. My boyfriend was on a plane at LaGuardia on his way to Boston, and was on the tarmac as all of this transpired. I moved back to NYC in 2004. No one had heard from him.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 11, 2016

I tried calling my boyfriend at the time, who split his time between NYC and Boston, and was scheduled to fly to Boston that day. My boyfriend was on a plane at LaGuardia on his way to Boston, and was on the tarmac as all of this transpired. I moved back to NYC in 2004. No one had heard from him.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Port Called “an uncommonly honest author&# by the Boston Globe and a “marketing guru&# by The Wall Street Journal, Michael Port is a New York Times Bestselling author of four bestselling books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect and The Think Big Manifesto.

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Small Business Marketing North America Social Media 52

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

For the period from 2004 to 2010 a mere 324 did. Let’s call this the Boston Celtics phenomenon. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. companies went public. Not unrelatedly, since the bottom has fallen out of the IPO market, the performance of the public market as a whole has been dreary to say the least.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). 25- Inspired by a Boston dentist. I asked around and colleagues had the same problem with no real solution.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012. Headquarters : Palo Alto, CA. What They Do : Enable users to connect and share content with friends online. Read More ».

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Port Called “an uncommonly honest author&# by the Boston Globe and a “marketing guru&# by The Wall Street Journal, Michael Port is a New York Times Bestselling author of four bestselling books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect and The Think Big Manifesto.

Small Business 35

Small Business Social Media Matching Engineer 35

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Amazon PostRank

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2011

Then I studied ethnomusicology on the west coast, moved to Boston and attended New England Conservatory of Music, decided I loved music too much to get into the business of it and went to UMass Boston majoring in human service management. Outside voice (a.k.a.

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Design Boston Community Canada 66

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. Amazon PostRank

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model.

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.

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United States Silicon Valley Canada Offshore 60

VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. VideoSurf was started by Lior Delgo, the formrer founder of FareChase (sold to Yahoo in 2004 in subsequently closed in 2008) accompanied by a very strong suit of Phd co-founders. Caminaro develops storage solutions in SSD drives.

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Metadata Cofounder IPO 92

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me. Especially when your idea fails, as happened with memamp founder Chris Slowe.

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Cofounder San Francisco Programming Founder 70

BeyondVC

OCTOBER 27, 2004

In addition, via deals with cable companies like Comcast, Visible World will be able to reach 30 million households by the end of 2004. Comcast says it can direct ads to narrow zones of 1,000 to 20,000 homes in a growing number of cities, including Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, and Phildelphia.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

But he began humbly with an article entitled “Chivalry,” written for the Boston magazine Pictorial National Library for a fee of $2. troops in Iraq in 2004. The Hurt Locker dominated the Academy Awards in 2010, winning Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, among other Oscars. Mitch Albom.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. Ditto for Apple.

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Distribution San Francisco Silicon Valley El Salvador 117

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our Generation Speaks – “Our Generation Speaks (OGS) is a Boston-based three-month summer fellowship program and incubator where emerging Israeli and Palestinian leaders create high-impact ventures. In OGS, fellows can expect to build for-profit and non-profit ventures. Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it."

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s why so many young people who are bright come to Palo Alto and the area, or to Boston, to Seattle, Texas, all these places where we have this going on. It’s 2004. Well, we’re fortunate, I think that we are at the leading edge – at the cutting edge – on technology. At night, it cools down to 105.

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