Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

That’s the phrase which stuck with me from Erin Griffith’s NYTimes article this spring about the latest set of wealth creating events in the tech community. That was the first day that current and former employees could cash out all of their shares after the company went public. 18 was “giraffe money” day.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I understand that now, being an investor in companies that have over 100 employees, closing in on $100mm run rates, where it’s been a long time since I was a Board Observer and most of their interaction is with the bigger, later stage investors that came after me. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010. Consider this.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. I don't think I'm cut out to being an employee. Tell us in the comments below.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I always say that it takes 18 months to un-train a big company employee from their bad habits when they join a startup. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

2- Worked closely with our most active community members. We worked extremely closely with our most active community members to name Commaful. A name that our community helped choose and really reflects the people who use the site today! 5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Startups Should Work To Make Their Employees Wealthy Not Just Their Founders And Investors. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash. And when that company was acquired in late 2020 by another private party, my stock purchased in 2004 turned into cash.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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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. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., and Verizon Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They make those searches in places where their peers are: a Slack community, a Reddit channel, a Facebook group, a direct message, an email, or a Zoom. Your customers want to hear from and interact with the leaders and employees behind your brand. When Facebook first launched in 2004, it was text-only. Image source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. And then secondly was the text.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Shopify Sustainability Fund (founded 2004) – with a market cap of $73 billion, publicly traded Shopify launched a $5 million annual fund to invest in environmental technology fighting climate change. The mega grants are a way for Epic Games to back developers and companies using their Unreal engine.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment. While Scott and I don’t spend a lot of time together, we’ve both been part of the evolution of the Boulder startup community going back to the late 1990s. In 2006, Google bought @Last (makers of SketchUp).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

As employees work together to achieve this grand goal, they’ll come up with innovative solutions and new ideas. My company was founded in 2004, but we didn’t have a BHAG until 2013. This mission is shared openly on our website, with potential franchisees, customers, and employees. BHAGs also stimulate the creative juices.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The employee picks a provider from a plan picked by the employer from the insurance carrier. This is then sent though the employer to the employee. Now the employee is exposed to the price for the very first time, and told the price was too high, but guess what — this is after the work is already done. In the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I encourage my employees to work lifestyle hours that allow them to be whole people while also growing their careers and growing the business. The commitment I have to the happiness of my employees is reflected in their commitment to building the business of RPR. My greatest strength is in connecting with people.

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Software By Rob

JULY 13, 2010

At this moment in time, you can do something never before imagined: launch a software product completely on your own from anywhere in the world…with no employees and no outside funding. Background The idea for ChangeThis came from Seth Godin, and the site was built by a group of talented developers in 2004.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Culture, whether deliberately developed or created by happenstance, is an undeniable fact of human behavior, showing up in the context of a community, a home, a workplace. Happier employees and a better bottom line – who wouldn’t want that?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The night I decided to start the company, my wife and I were having dinner with the man who would be our first employee and our creative director for the first twelve years. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. #2- Just looked at the paper I was reading. Photo Credit: Scott Harris. Thanks to Ken Hensley, AltaBello !

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). At a small company, employees need to wear many hats, and they need to be prepared to wear many hats. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 communication. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

To start a CSR project, you can identify needs in your community and develop a project around that need. Because of that, our purpose – to empower people to live more beautiful lives – sits at the center of everything we do as company and compels us to keep community at our core. 6- Employee volunteering.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 communication. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 communication. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In “ Threadless: Ten Years of T-shirts from the World’s Most Inspiring Online Design Community ” it’s documented that the company’s revenue jumped from $1.5 million in 2004 to $6.5 communication. It was because these companies actually listened to their customers that they were able to grow to names you recognize today.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

According to a 2003-2004 U.S. Our portfolio company BetterWorks cites a report by The World Economic Forum: “Employees are eight times more likely to be engaged when wellness is a priority in the workplace.” A pedometer is a great motivator and if all your employees are wearing them it sets up healthy competition.”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

In Delivering Happiness , the late Tony Hsieh details how he built an incredible company culture and went to extremes to make customers and employees happy. Mauborgne (2004). How do you give candid feedback to an underperforming employee? How did the shoe company Zappos become one of the most respected brands in the world?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve identified a wide range of organizations who are working on bridging the economic, cultural, and political gap between Israel, the Arab community, and the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”) through technology. I also suggest look at the UAE-Israel Technology & Finance Community/Mailing List. Takwin Labs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Palantir, founded in 2004, had 15 employees when Ari started there; it now has 1,000 employees and $1B in contracts. Having more employees doesn’t mean that each hire is less important – it means that the processes around hiring need to develop to meet the company’s needs. But those are constantly changing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. 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." January 16, 2009 2:36 PM korbsan said.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Funds Slide Hits Paulson Ally A former employee who helped John Paulson make billions has lost a large chunk of his personal portfolio by investing with his old boss.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just when you think Dreamforce is all fun and games, you see Benioff on stage with former supermodel Petra Nemcova as she talks about losing her fiancé in the 2004 Asian Tsunami and dedicating her life to helping others. Then you see a video of sick children from the $100 MM project at UCSF Hospital that Benioff funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies. Based in San Francisco with 13 employees, CEO Zach Coelius. -A See: TechCrunch. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Total raised: $125mm See: TechCrunch.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Luckily, the startup community often courageously shares their stories – even when things don’t end well. Three notes before we begin: After reading these, you realize more than ever that the startup community is really like no other. It takes a lot of work to build a community. During this year they. We like data.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After 13 years mastering my craft, I was still an employee and I simply had reached a ceiling of how much money I could earn in my career.”. Campbell signed on to the Data Sync Technologies team in 2004 and has helped it achieve meaningful partnerships, including U.S. “My path to self-employment seemed, to me, a natural evolution.

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