Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Everpix, a photo startup in San Francisco shut down recently and published a post mortem on The Verge. In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. You had to do crazy stuff like put machines into a datacenter, at this point. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2014

When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. Get an apartment of their own in an expensive city like San Francisco. Did I work any less hard the next day because of my liquidity event? Clear our some student debt.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Path, a two-year-old San Francisco startup, took this risk and turned down a $100 million offer from Google shortly after their launch in November of 2010. Their offer was rebuffed and the company went public five years later.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In case you were asleep and missed it, Salesforce.com’s annual tech conference/religious revival, Dreamforce , took place in the Moscone Center in San Francisco this past week. Nick Mehta is the CEO of Gainsight , the leading customer success management company. Well, that’s not entirely correct. But you get the idea.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010. Started in 2004, it has helped over 500,000 startup founders to receive seed money and has raised over $1 billion in investment capital for them.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I was scheduled to fly back from Newark to San Francisco on 9/11 but decided to move the trip to a day earlier. So I was in my bed in San Francisco, recovering from all the recent travel when my phone (yes we had landlines back then) starting ringing off the hook at 7AM. I moved back to NYC in 2004.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Based in San Francisco with 13 employees, CEO Zach Coelius. -A -Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B. Total raised: $22mm. See: TechCrunch.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 11, 2016

I was scheduled to fly back from Newark to San Francisco on 9/11 but decided to move the trip to a day earlier. So I was in my bed in San Francisco, recovering from all the recent travel when my phone (yes we had landlines back then) starting ringing off the hook at 7AM. I moved back to NYC in 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. I can talk about "discourse-based decision support system" til the cows come home, c/w references to cognitive ergonomics and "helmet fire". but there are plenty of folk who talk as well or better than I (see last weeks Web 2.0 Parley-vous "A-list"?).

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. A few weeks later, Dell’s PR firm contacted me about meeting them in their San Francisco office. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Life Beyond Code

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. A few weeks later, Dell’s PR firm contacted me about meeting them in their San Francisco office. So, here we go: Rajesh Setty: I understand that you are a member of Dell’s Customer Advisory Panel. How did this come to be? Dave Gardner: This is a very interesting story, Rajesh.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” When Salesforce went public in 2004 as a new kind of CRM provider, its S-1 indicated the CRM applications market was $7B.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For even more Lean Startup learning, register for The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco.' The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. Image Credit: Ray Higdon.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. markets: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

ClickFacts itself is now based in San Francisco, and continues to work hard to help advertisers and ad-networks manage their risk and security, exactly as it set out to do seven years ago. Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. tips@techcrunch.com.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. tips@techcrunch.com.

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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. A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development says that a San Francisco metro area family of four bringing in $117,400 a year qualifies as “low income.”

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). Back then, in the relatively innocent days of the digital Neolithic, San Francisco was a boutique outpost hovering beyond the northern border of the Silicon Valley heartland.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. Bring your questions.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail. All Rights Reserved.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

Still, it is the highest amount increase since Fenwick began compiling the numbers in 2004. Early-Selling VCs Are About as Surprising as Summer Fog in San Francisco. Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. ” The report, co-authored by Fenwick partners Barry J.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

of San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup Expensify wrote a post on the company’s blog about why he considers.NET experience on a resume a general liability, saying that it will ‘definitely raise questions’ when screening for developers in his [.]. Expensify Awarded “Hottest San Francisco Company” Award.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A taxi driver in Leningrad, for example is much like a taxi driver in San Francisco. It’s 2004. For those countries that don’t operate off that, you cannot wish them away, you cannot make them into something you want them to be because you think the people there are like you. They are like you.

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