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

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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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

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year.

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Technical Cofounder San Francisco Cofounder Startup 48

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. The post Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups appeared first on Feld Thoughts. From: Zachary Rosen. To: Pantheon Staff.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Just like a startup. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. different processes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while it’s good to look at some facts to temper our imagination.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 317

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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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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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

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. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, then adopting these strategies is critical to surviving and thriving in the uncharted world of startups. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them over ten years ago. Today they are in every business and will likely comprise 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. overnight success entrepreneur startup Seth Godin business' Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

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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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004), 2004), although the latter was founded in Dublin. Apparently, successful Boston-based startups have an even greater concentration of immigrant influence. Essential Role of Immigrants. Strong Diversity. However, I am quite optimistic about the future.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. I thought it was time to revisit my series of “Cliff Notes” S-1s.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 18, 2019

By LAURA LOREK, publisher of Silicon Hills News In 2004, at the University of Texas at Austin, Denis Ignatovich and Grant Passmore met and became roommates soon after. The post AI Startup Imandra Moves its Headquarters from London to Austin and Lands $5 Million in Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. We spent a […].

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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. . ==. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. Rome wasn’t built in a day. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

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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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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. The post An Open Letter to Startup Founders Everywhere in a Time of Crisis appeared first on Hi, I'm David G.

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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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 15, 2011

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends. First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 82.9

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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). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M conference happened at the end of 2004). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Or if you want to go back to 2004 and 2005 when I was really learning about Agile, well before it had become a household name, you could read my posts Agile Software Development with SCRUM or Do You Develop Software For A Living? Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. Millennials have come a long way in business since I started writing about them nearly ten years ago. Today they are in every business, and will likely comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020.

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Viral Leadership Global Media 319

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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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Digital transformation has created several new opportunities for startups to diversify their service offerings and enter new markets. There are even thought leadership articles that discuss celebrating the launch date of a startup like that of a baby shower. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale. Four Steps. are unknown.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

2019 is off to an exciting start for IPOs of VC-backed startups. Google was a one such company when they went public in 2004 and Facebook was too at their 2012 IPO. I don’t follow the Chinese startup market as closely as I follow the US, but Alibaba’s 2014 IPO was a similar watershed moment.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

When I started blogging in 2004, there weren’t many VC bloggers. When I wrote Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors , I tried to include constructive thoughts about how venture-backed boards work and how to improve them, along with plenty of examples. Today, VC content pieces are everywhere.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing. March 13, 2012. Yesterday Yahoo! And Why 20%?

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