Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet. Or read the quick, informative summary below the image!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In fact, according to the most recent Index of Startup Activity by the Kauffman Foundation and recent SBA reports , these Baby Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom. In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur SBA United States 120

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. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? Origins of the Lean Startup. Taking My Class.

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Lean Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder Channel 120

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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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

He believed that large companies handle sustaining innovation – evolutionary changes in their markets, products, etc. But most large companies find it hard to deal with disruptive innovation – radical shifts in technology, customers, regulatory changes, etc, that create new markets. Just like a startup. different processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

When I saw it, I asked Zack if I could post it on my blog as an ode to all startups. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. We are the leaders in our market, and they will follow, after we’ve found and laid the path. From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 317

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. For starters, there are more startups. And these are not just any old startups either; they’re some of the most innovative and successful organizations around! Damon Becnel discusses how the startup industry has changed over the past decade.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. That was in May 2004, when she approached the Athens New Media Synergy Center out of UGA to build a mobile student messaging platform she called Vusion.

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Social Media Media Management Application Development 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. 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. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.

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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. . ==. In more recent decades, additional technology has come to market to assist drivers. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

We put together a (non-comprehensive) list of some of the best marketing books, both new and old, to help you become a better marketer—and a better person. One of the first books to explore the challenges of an increasingly fast-paced media and marketing landscape, you’ll learn how to position yourself to remain top of mind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. overnight success entrepreneur startup Seth Godin business'

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

With technology facilitating the rapid globalization of the marketplace today, it’s no wonder that international money transfer startups are popping up to provide more payment options and autonomy to buyers and sellers alike. Here are the five hottest international money transfer startups you should know about: TorFX. GBP on their end.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Digital transformation has created several new opportunities for startups to diversify their service offerings and enter new markets. Instead, you can become an entrepreneur by establishing a virtual business like an e-commerce platform or digital marketing agency by working in your room. Thanks to Tomek Mlodzki, PhotoAiD ! #17-

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. In the case of public companies, we valued the companies at the market close of 11/15/13. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004),

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Boston Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 55

Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. He says they both realized the future of the voiceover industry was in digital, even while (ironically) penning the idea for their startup on a decidedly analog surface. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!”

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How To Think About The Future.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Founding Date: 2004. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak. April 17, 2011.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

After doing some market research, I realized that there was a market for the handcrafted greeting cards that I make, and in September 2019, MsCraftprincess Designs was formed. I got my start when I was young—as an eBay Powerseller—and I eventually moved on to building a thriving marketing agency. Photo Credit: Daniel Javor.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. 2) Do you sell something that isn’t truly a must-have product to startups or other tech companies? The incentive is too strong. 9’s and 10’s only!

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Stock Marketing Valuation Later Stage 97

David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

The financial markets quickly gave up more than a trillion dollars. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. The market sucked until around 2010 when everyone and their sister decided they wanted to create an accelerator too. The market was back!

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. After former CEO Steve Jobs departed the business in 1985, Apple entered a ten-year downward spiral as competitors' lower-priced products notably Microsoft Windows, dominated the personal computer market.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Startups often make this mistake. Like everything, I screwed this up in my first startup. I was too much Accenture, not enough Startup.

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Warrant Germany France Cost 333

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 Autos for drivers: Waning market demand. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. Technology won’t solve this one.

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Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 258

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. And today, AngelList is opening the platform up to all startups with top-tier investors. Enterprise.

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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.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+). Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO.

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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 Peter Thiel, in investing in Facebook in 2004, channeled the Romans and their famous ode to luck - "Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat", "Fortune Favors the Bold." The question, of course, is will you?

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Technical Review Social Media Valuation Channel 91

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. It was: up-market, exclusive, urban, elite, aesthetically pleasing, ad-free and users were verified.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. These companies can range from tech startups to food trucks to retail stores.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Cameron Herold. Take The Marketing Assessment: www.marketingassessment.co. The Second in Command Podcast.

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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. We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. On the Startup Visa Program.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

(plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. billion online in the first quarter of this year. The Big Players.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163