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. My first role was in sales and the buyers on the platform absolutely loved the access to global freelancers, the low hourly rates, and the full transparency and flexibility in the system.
David Cohen
MARCH 30, 2020
One in 2004 and one in 2006. For the rest of our lives, we’ll all remember this global pandemic that changed everything. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. Sudden change. One worked, one didn’t.
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Hearpreneur
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. 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. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 10, 2018
I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years. Ran reports through a IP lawyer, they were all taken or didn’t sound good. Peacock didn’t sound as good but Conure another name for parakeet sounded good and passed the IP/trademark test. It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York.
David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. “Jake” Geleerd is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Ocean Tomo, the global Intellectual Capital Merchant BancT firm providing financial products and services related to intellectual property.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. Acquired by Amazon for $110m.
Start Up Blog
JUNE 6, 2019
era emerged circa 2004, it really did feel like we’d discovered some kind of utopia. It became a global news story – yet still nothing has changed. But the items aren’t real (brands and IP) and don’t exist in the real world – they live in the ether to purely move money around. But when the web 2.0
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