Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. Once I knew I definitely wanted to start a fashion boutique, I started talking about it to people and on social media platforms like Facebook, so people could hold me accountable. I’m the founder of Lime Inc.,

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo! Thanks to Kyle Muir, Fuze Interactive ! #27-

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Furthermore, founders become highly emotional about their companies. Company : BricaBox.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. There are also different definitions of failure. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Breaking Up (With a Co-Founder) Is Hard to Do.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It’s rather thoughtful and definitely worth reading if you haven’t had a chance to yet. 1) The VC Shakeout is 3-4yrs Old, Not 10 – While there was definitely a rough patch for the VC industry in the wake of the early 00′s tech crash, the reality is that much of the last decade was pretty good for the venture biz.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. Maybe we should just skip that free plan and focus on making money instead.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I will definitely look into haml, hopefully my IDE (RubyMine) will handle the new syntax. Too many smart people liked it.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I won the Imagine Cup back in 2004 and I have trained people to pass their MCSD certifications. But after a discussion with Hendro , founder of Moluko , I decided to give Ruby on Rails another go. I will definitely look into haml, hopefully my IDE (RubyMine) will handle the new syntax. Too many smart people liked it.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

As you may know, the title of this blog, OnlyOnce, comes from a blog post written by my friend and board member Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures entitled You Are Only a First-Time CEO Once , which he wrote back in 2003 or 2004. That inspired me to create a blog for entrepreneurs and leaders. Press release is here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

So for other companies, especially for this next generation of founders who look up to you and what you have accomplished here, what do you want them to take away from your example here? And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

Leonardo Da Vinci filled thousands of notebook pages with his sketches, drawings, and writings, but fewer than 20 surviving paintings are, in the words of the Encyclopedia Britannica, “definitively attributed to him.” ” What if he’d had an AI-enabled computer to assist him?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. For the last two decades there was no standard definition. Now we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

Akash Bakshi , Nadja Mannowetz , and Andrew Bartynski are the co-founders of University of California, Berkeley-based YourChoice Therapeutics. I think, yeah, these aren't pleasant side effects, but they are definitely more acceptable than suicidal thoughts, heart attack, or anything like that.

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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. But today I believe that ruby and python, with RoR and Django are most definitely the best ways to go for a startup business that wants to get productive. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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