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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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

“There’s simply no budget for [an office], as I bootstrap the company,&# says Paul Molluzzo, founder of Baby Goes Mobile , a web app that lets parents create a private baby book they can view and update from their mobile phones. instead of having to travel home. .&# instead of having to travel home.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. And there you have it.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. A few weeks of organized effort should be enough time to develop a name and gain consensus among your co-founders, but if you’re on a tight schedule, it’s also possible to do in just a few days. Social Media Lists.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

And maybe you heard of a tiny Linux-based mobile software designer Google bought in 2005, called Android Inc.? Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”.

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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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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

In honor of Netflix’s big beat today in the very unfortunate age of COVID-19, I decided to revisit my four-part Bazaarblog series while I was CEO of Bazaarvoice (from our inception in 2005 to our IPO in 2012). Blockbuster introduced their “End of Late Fees” program on January 1, 2005. The name of the last part?

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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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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

In April, “stealth” social media startup Kohort announced its upcoming launch. Within a few days, the site received thousands of user signups, according to its founder Mark Davis. raked in five-figure daily signups after announcing its upcoming launch, according to the site’s founders. I think this strategy works.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Open Source Lists.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

I’m the founder of Movylo Shop (www.movyloshop.com), a SaaS mobile commerce solution. Richard Rabins Co-Chairman Alpha Software, Inc. We have merchants all over the world that in less than 15 minutes can create their own mobile store and start selling.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And social media frequently makes news, including when it accelerated the uprising in Egypt this year. But back in 2005, social media was not as prominent as it is today, and it took a tsunami for social media to earn its status as an equal player in news-gathering. Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? That was the thought behind Meebos decision to offer a $5,000 reward to anyone who referred qualified potential employees to the company that launched in 2005. So are referrals.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow. Adam Black, Founder KeyWifi.com. Jeff Stewart, Founder of Lenddo.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

With all of the new ways to see early companies such as TechCrunch and YCombinator, I had a feeling that much of the luster was gone and debated whether it was worth the time to attend.The last time I went to DEMO was in 2005 for the launch of one of my companies, iControl Networks. Bump - These guys got my vote for the Peoples Choice.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. Worse, I think its a dangerous idea to promote." startupcto

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network.

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

SocialParent is a social network for those who have moved beyond the Bang with Friends stage, have settled down, had a family and are looking for a social network that mirrors their real life social network. In 2005, incubators were thought of as either bubble era disasters or university science projects.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow – We both have a love fest for Joel Spolsky who also co-founded Fog Creek Software. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. DEAL OF THE WEEK.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Back in 2005, I started Cellit, a company focused on helping companies communicate with their customers via text messages. Despite the ongoing recession, I took to my kitchen table in 2013 to launch Digital Air Strike — an award-winning automotive social media and digital engagement company. 4) Used to Reconnect.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. Put another way, the ideal financing partner is a financing cofounder. Professional networking, not social networking. This slide addressed the question: “Isn’t social much more valuable than professional?”

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront. I saw that 37signals had hidden theirs. 42 Ruben on 08.19.10

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Professor VC

JULY 7, 2015

I have always admired the Dead's biz model (sorry Friendster/MySpace/Facebook, The Dead was the First Social Network) and music, although I never became a full fledged Deadhead. From an investors position, you have a number of individuals with a wealth of experience to source, vet, and co-invest in deals.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Deals come in all shapes and sizes, and seed stage funds like First Round Capital and programs like TechStars provide flexibility Explosive growth companies and multi-time successful founders get atypical deals The other terms (besides valuation) matter too! For example, liquidation prefs. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks).

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. TechCrunch article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategies are: understand your buyers and create great content to reach those buyers, and reach them in real time using social networks and things like newsjacking. So the first edition was funny, I wrote the first edition in 2005 and 2006. Brian Hal ligan and Dharmesh Shah, the two co-founders wrote that book.

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