Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product? Last, did I want to be a long term partner with the entrepreneurs? Now, let’s shift to #2: “Are the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product?” I’ve always been impulsive about #3: “Do I want to be long term partners with the entrepreneurs?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

We live today in a golden age of writing and resources for entrepreneurs. Even 10 or 15 years ago, when I first cut my teeth as an entrepreneur, there were very few things to read. It wasn''t meant to be an encyclopedia or a work of theory, but it had one overriding virtue: it was useful to actual practicing entrepreneurs like me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. As a partially-retired baby-boomer in business, I’ve spent much of the last few years mentoring aspiring millennial entrepreneurs, and I’m always looking for more insights into how to help them.

Leadership 337

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

All types of entrepreneurs become this intertwined in their work, often at a price. Consider that 72 percent of entrepreneurs self-reported a personal or family history of mental health issues in a study led by Michael Freeman, M.D. Academic researchers seem to take it for granted that entrepreneurs are stress cases.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re an entrepreneur, you spend your time worrying about how to get out of the box on the left and move to the right. The Ambidextrous Organization, Charles O’Reilly / Michael Tushman : April 2004. Darwin and the Demon: Innovating Within Established Enterprises, Geoffrey Moore : July/August 2004. Creative Destruction.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my own business career, many years as a business advisor, and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I have validated the following strategies to practice and guide you. Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

More often than you think, an entrepreneur’s passion is for the care and concern for others less fortunate. And those entrepreneurs go beyond occasional giving of time and talent to a full application of their entrepreneurial skills building a scaled nonprofit organization with a huge social impact. Getting visibility?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

Benitez has been involved in social media since 2004, and interestingly enough has met the famous Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron, who are most famous for alleging that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg stole their social networking idea from them. What Could Have Been.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 Every entrepreneur needs to understand that people and populations drive business opportunities, as well as society.

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Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 258

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the other archetype is a thirty-something entrepreneur who, taking his experience seeing the playbook of success at larger growing startups or even “established” companies, utilizes that domain and functional expertise as unique insight into founding a company. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

By then, I had become a venture capitalist at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance and found myself talking to a lot of entrepreneurs who were proclaiming their great technology yet were struggling with little revenue, and claiming they were “crossing the chasm”. Try collaborative learning by leveraging global intelligence and passion of entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Taking My Class. It feels awful.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. My mission is to create freedom in entrepreneurs lives by living and working freely! It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York. I came up with the name of my business by first thinking about my niche target audience, meaning who this business/service is for.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

by Joe Carlen, author of “ A Brief History of Entrepreneurship: The Pioneers, Profiteers, and Racketeers Who Shaped Our World “ Going back to the dawn of civilization, many entrepreneurs have sought their fortunes through adventures of exploration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. As a partially-retired baby-boomer in business, I’ve spent much of the last few years mentoring aspiring millennial entrepreneurs, and I’m always looking for more insights into how to help them.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Like most entrepreneurs, I get my best ideas in the early morning. When I first started my web design agency in 2004, I was living on the water on Treasure Island, a beach community in Florida. Thanks to Ian Naylor, AppInstitute ! #2-I 2-I love fragrance and am very enterprising! Photo Credit: Sue Phillips. Photo Credit: Andi Graham.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. Rome wasn’t built in a day. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). I met Ryan via Young Entrepreneurs Organization – we were both in the same YEO forum. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Leading business information architect and IT entrepreneur Pekka A. Viljakainen: I started my business as an entrepreneur 25 years ago when I was 13, in a corner of our (family) barn. When I was a young entrepreneur, my leadership style was developing. I wanted to crystallize what I have learned about leadership over the years.

Leadership 206

Leadership Social Media Global Technical Review 206

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. One of our principles – and we call them deeply held beliefs – one of them was that we are all going to invest in the same things”… “I think it is useful for the entrepreneur to know what he is encountering because every firm has a different process.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2010

Of most interest is the story of Mr. Peter Thiel investing $500,000 into the company in 2004, at an effective valuation of $4.9 Aspiring entrepreneurs who seek their name in lights pray to it. A fantastic article in Fortune Magazine this month - " The Temptation of Facebook ," talks about the early days of the social media giant.

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Technical Review Social Media Valuation Channel 91

A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. Realistically for entrepreneurs, no matter how hard you try, you’re going to make hiring mistakes. Since I was young and foolish, that didn’t deter me from joining full time.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

We also know many of the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. This means FC avoids trends and relentlessly questions entrepreneurs about how their product enables specific use cases and market opportunities. When Union Square Ventures’ 2004 fund was on fire, Fred and Brad raised their next fund at the same size.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. This notion of overnight success is an urban legend, and very misleading. Marty Zwilling.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 16, 2019

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 Every entrepreneur needs to understand that people and populations drive business opportunities, as well as society.

Architecture 209

Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 209

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When I started blogging in 2004, there weren’t many VC bloggers. Sometimes investors, independents and entrepreneurs forget this. Entrepreneurs should expect a great deal from their boards — not as blind supporters but as true copilots. Today, VC content pieces are everywhere.

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Partner Networking Entrepreneur Startup 138

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

With my adolescent dreams up in flames, I decided to get back at my unsupportive mom and dad the only way I knew how: I became an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs starting out are typically stronger in sales and marketing than they are in other areas—I think it’s really important for them to get a grasp on financials and operations as well.”.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. link] leehower. quite encouraging. Read More ».

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war. The most tempting thing for inexperienced entrepreneurs to do is to attack the press. Think John Kerry and the “swift boat&# scandal. Never Blame the Press.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. approx 2004-09. Angels relish the opportunity to invest in passionate and driven entrepreneurs with ambitious visions of the future – who doesn’t want to be part of the next wave of innovation?

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