Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. The combination of services and infrastructure traditionally housed under one roof – underwriting, research, sales & trading, supported by large back office operations, and monitored by compliance systems – will remain at the sector’s core.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He's the founder of JJ Analytics, a company that helps businesses adopt the data-driven way of digital marketing. In 2015, he launched the MeasureSchool YouTube channel to reach out and teach this new way of marketing to others. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Julian Juenmann.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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mashable.com

MARCH 20, 2014

Because there is often a lot at stake for a new company, its wise to ask where you will fit in among founders and first hires — and how you can make a direct impact on the companys success. What are your founders goals? If interviewing with a founder, Id ask what the founder hoped to gain from the venture.

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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. Key Takeaway: The Chief Operating Officer is the second in command to the CEO – they’re the go-to person that should be running the business. Marketing Podcast with Cameron Herold. 3:38] How would you define the job title COO?

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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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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. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. A decade later, Andreessen Horowitz investor Sam Gerstenzang has one-upped Kraus. Hardware was expensive.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We asked 10 founders to share what they think the future of personalized shopping holds (ecommerce entrepreneurs, listen up!). As brick-and-mortar stores started seeing sales slip, they plunged headfirst into the Internet, thus creating click-and-mortar operations. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. Heres what they had to say: 1.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half. No new investments.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2019

Today, John Fielding is the founder of Array Marketing, formerly known as IDMD, a global retail merchandising service with clients that include Ulta, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Sephora, and more. is a fraud solutions and e-commerce provider founded in 2005; the company was acquired by Mastercard International in 2019. Ethoca Solutions Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. And for many of these they were (over) funded 7-10 years ago and don’t necessarily all represent great returns for investors or founders. some founders lose their life savings.

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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. and measurement.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Evgeny Glariantov , the founder of a blockchain project FREED , is an expert on the monetization of game projects.

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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. TR: This was an easy one for me.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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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.&#. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. And there you have it. Not a chance. I totally agree.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Managing employees and tasks remotely can be a recipe for disaster when you’re building a nascent operation. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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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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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC., and before that, Co-founder and Senior Vice-President at Clearview Networks, Inc.

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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. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. round closed Feb 2005. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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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. Guest post by Paul Higgins*.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 8, 2017

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News Heather Hoover, executive vice president of operations at uShip, joined the company in 2005, a year after its founding. Nick Parker, chief technology officer at uShip, and the founders […].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Bates, keynote speaker, communications coach, founder and chief executive officer at Executive Speaking Success, joins Episode 4 of the Profit First Podcast. Bates, keynote speaker, communications coach, founder and chief executive officer at Executive Speaking Success, joins Episode 4 of the Profit First Podcast. Our Guest John K.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently.

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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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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2016

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. A business plan is the blueprint for your company’s operation, and overall success. You need the right support system to operate and grow your company. Stephen Sheinbaum founded Bizfi as Merchant Cash and Capital in 2005. Create a game plan. Add the right team members.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. I was doing my own admin, sales and marketing while doing operations (delivering what I was selling). 15- Remind myself of how venture capitalist operate. Thanks to Sudhanshu Ahuja, Impress.ai ! #15-

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