Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Write it down on a napkin.

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JULY 11, 2012

ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years.

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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., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Now we understood that the strategy for startups was to first search for a business model and then after you found it, put together an operating plan. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development. Having Eric in the class was the best investment I ever made.

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