Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. 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.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. Entrepreneurs — frugal innovation can be a powerful tool for growth. But don’t give up! One of them is called frugal innovation.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Fell in Love. In High school I made flyers telling everyone I was going to own a hair salon that held fashion shows and in college I majored in Business Management. If you know how to manage it, you can leave a life of freedom.

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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. These people may be permanent employees, or they may work on a project-by-project basis, but they are managed very much as if they’re working right alongside you.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

The competitive, oversaturated market pushes companies to seek better ways to manage workload and optimize the working process to strive for continuous improvement and client satisfaction. At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. Know how you spend your time. Know your dependencies.

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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? My affinity in this case borders on obsession, just like it does with the Contact Management problem. Now, let’s shift to #2: “Are the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product?”

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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. If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Creative Destruction. Just like a startup.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. Many entrepreneurs battle with their business name, mostly I believe, because they have too many ideas and are not sure what to narrow their niche down to. 8- Simply my name.

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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. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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.

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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. We motivate and coach entrepreneurs to be warriors for their businesses, for their families and for their communities. The name, however, remained their property. Not liking the “.co”

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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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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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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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. When I was a young entrepreneur, my leadership style was developing.

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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. 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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The company provides management consulting services to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies – I wanted clients to know that the company’s values include balance, perspective, integrity, stability, and practicality. My business niche is “entrepreneurs” and “founders”. Photo Credit: Dave Davies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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.

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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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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. The correct answer is to closely manage the overall network – promote the good people and kick out the bad people. What’s important is to correct them quickly.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each entrepreneur and brand. business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. As the son of entrepreneurs, it’s in my blood to create a business for myself. Start our FREE Business Blogging Course!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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.

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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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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. A lot has changed. quite encouraging.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Beyond just the team, you also hear them talk about passion—how much the entrepreneur believes in the idea. Research shows ( 5) that how well an entrepreneur is prepared is much more important than how much passion they have. If you’re like me, and like most entrepreneurs, you like to dream up new business ideas.

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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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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Feld Group grew rapidly during this time period until it was acquired in 2004 by EDS. While I was now investor / partner / board member, the intellectual and emotional intimacy of our relationship increased. Each of these relationships are long term ones – Len and I since 1993 and Charlie and I since I was born in 1965.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

It's now been about three years since I joined the fray as an entrepreneur and tech blogger. While foreign entrepreneurs wait for the Startup Visa to become a reality so they can go launch their startups in the US, France has quietly had a similar program in place for some time. billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 29, 2019

Researchers have been trying for decades to establish the most common character traits of entrepreneurs. It has even been noted that there are more differences between the traits of different entrepreneurs than between those of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs (Gartner, 1985). Kolb & Wagner, 2015).The

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. For venture capitalist, Paul Suster , it’s not just the individual; the ‘management team’ is essential. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product […] If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest. A management team they believe in.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Many entrepreneurs don’t consider acquisition entrepreneurship because it doesn’t seem as exciting as building something brand-new. I believe fewer entrepreneurs would start businesses if they thought they would max out at $650,000 in revenue.

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