VC Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The co-founders that shook the world Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. How to find a co-founder. Everyone wants to be an entrepreneur at the moment, and resources such as WorkInStartups , Founder2Be and Enternships have sprung up to help people locate co-founders and create or work in startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Want to be a guest on the show?

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SiliconHills

JUNE 14, 2017

In 2005, John Berkowitz was getting ready to graduate from George Washington Unviersity and was exploring what to do with his life. They grew Yodel into a large […] The post John Berkowitz, Yodle and OJO Labs Co-Founder Discusses Building Companies on Ideas to Invoices appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. It has been a rocket ship from there. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2015

Scott Schreiman is the founder and chief executive officer of Samepage , a division of Kerio Technologies, Inc. Scott joined Kerio in 2005 and has over 18 years of senior management experience in sales, business development, marketing, operations and finance.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

My co-founders and I wanted a name that would reflect the incredible ambition of our mission: “to build the most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource in the world”. only around three retailers had customer reviews on their websites in 2005. As CEO, I stuck to my guns and, as co-founder, Brant did too.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Tim Staples is the CEO of Shareability and co-author of Break Through the Noise: The 9 Rules to Capture Global Attention. Michael Margolis is the CEO and founder of Storied. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Tim Staples – Creating Shareable Content for Your Busines.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 Prince: Business History.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together. Believe it or not, there were only three retailers in 2005 that offered customer reviews, the most popular of them being Amazon. this was 2005. The journey for Bazaarvoice was similar?—?it it was completely irrelevant at the beginning.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. round closed Feb 2005. Series A Preferred. round closed in June 2004. Read More ».

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. to date from some of the best, including most recently Workday and others.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2019

Portfolio co’ 1. There are many examples of start-ups where the founders don’t give up, pushing hard until they finally figured out something magically or until the market is ready for their product. Portfolio co’ 3. Portfolio co’ 2. So never believe the overnight success story!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. With three co-founders, what was decision making and roles and responsibilities like? Not a chance.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders. Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, the Chicago-based cofounders of the social coupon website, Groupon, turned down an offer from Google in early December.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

Cameron is t he founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in Command. And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This is John Jantsch.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). But remember that this was 2005?—?and The content is genius.]

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. But keep in mind at this point Reid’s a first-time CEO.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Co-founder Tan and editor Terence Lee will join Tech in Asia’s editorial team. “We had many small coffee chats with Gwen and her team which slowly led to today’s acquisition,” said Tech in Asia founder Willis Wee. “We admire SGE’s spirit of producing quality content with a very small team.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The CEOs on the panel were (from left to right): Michael Simon, CEO/founder of LogMeIn (2009 IPO) . Niraj Shah, CEO/cofounder of Wayfair ($500m revenue). Colin Angle, CEO/cofounder of iRobot (2005 IPO). Paul English, CTO/cofounder of Kayak ($200m revenue, S-1 filed). Scott Griffith, CEO ZipCar (2010 IPO).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 17, 2018

? [ Download MP3 | Transcript | iTunes | Soundcloud | Raw RSS ] Back in 2005, this podcast was brand new. I had only just started to interview entrepreneurs and one of the very first guests was Robert Gerrish, co-founder of Australian small business community FlyingSolo.com.au (and author of the Flying Solo Book).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2019

In the past few weeks, we’ve had our data.world executive team and then leadership team off-site, All-Hands kick-off for the year at the Alamo Drafthouse, Board meeting, and another event I co-host every year outside of data.world. From: Brett Hurt Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:52 AM To: All Bazaarvoice?—?Internal

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. You may be cheaper, you may have more features, you may be easier to use, you may target one under-served demographic (think Bevel by Walker & Co) or you may just be better at sales & marketing than the competition with an equivalent (or even inferior) product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Dan is the Co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world’s largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. He's a co-founder and president of Podcast Movement, the world's largest conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Marketing Podcast with Dan Franks. This is John Jantsch.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2011

That was the challenge faced by former real estate agent Alex Joseph, co-founder of Nuviva Medical Weight Loss Clinics, now a growing franchise operation based in Florida. “We We didn’t start out the way we ended up,” said Joseph, Nuviva ’s founder. “In

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