Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). They were founded in May 2009 in Boulder, CO, by Joe Stump (former lead Digg architect) and Matt Galligan (founder Social Thing).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Since its founding in 2006, online social network and microblogging service Twitter has pretty much become a permanent part of the Internet as we know it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2013

s Superman to 2006?s If you’re a founder or startup focused on an innovative idea for a product and/or service in the connected devices space, please consider applying. They are the force behind the opening title sequence for 1978?s s Nike+ platform to 2010?s s HBO Go connected device. Apply now at rgaaccelerator.com.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

by Aytekin Tank, founder & CEO of JotForm. In the realm of software and internet companies, 2006 was a whole different landscape, and it was the year that I founded JotForm. Aytekin Tank is the founder & CEO of JotForm , a SaaS online form building company based in San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

An entrepreneur who brings out innovation and disruption at the same time is highly successful Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit and micro-finance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize is an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the famous Huffington Post and the founder of Thrive Global.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

By Stephen Tanenbaum, co-founder and CEO of UGallery. I’m a startup founder and I spend more time at the office than I’d like to admit. Stephen Tanenbaum is co-founder and president of UGallery.com. Sound familiar? Work/life balance has become a hot topic in the startup world. https://seatgeek.com/.

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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. extension round closed April 2006. round closed May 2006. Author howerl.

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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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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Co-founder Steve Huffman, who sold the site for millions to publishing company Conde Nast four years ago this month , now says he wishes he still owned the site. Also, when we sold it was the fall of 2006, right before the economy totally tanked. Steve: A little bit longer, no.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. 2006 was still the pits for venture capital, although a number of legendary companies (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) were in their early phases of getting started. It was indeed private equity’s moment.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. In 2006, I’d gotten a check for my birthday, and was wondering what to spend it on. My friend Gene Kim, cofounder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails , suggested I get a handheld gaming device. Enter the Craziness.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 19, 2024

This is exactly what we envisioned when we started Foundry in 2006, and today marks the public acknowledgment that, with the 2022 fund, we’re ready to stop adding new funds to the mix. I had no idea in 2006, when we started Foundry Group, what this journey would be like. The obvious question, I suppose, is “what’s next.”

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or TOMS shoe company founder Blake Mycoskie, who, on a trip to Argentina in 2006 met a woman in a café who was volunteering for a shoe drive. He is the founder and author of PurposeSpeaks.com, and a researcher and adjunct faculty at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. That person, after all, is your purpose.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2006, Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods to help ensure quality food access for all children across the nation. Together, they founded Revolution Foods in 2006. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Eliot Burdett is the cofounder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: Great employees are hard to find, highly sought after and almost always gainfully employed.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Charlie Schloegel, General Manager of the Property Solutions division and Co-Owner of Schloegel Design Remodel. Since graduation in 2006, Charlie has worked successfully in sales and service of building material products. Charlie has grown up around the family business.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

My guests this week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM Channel 111 were: Kathryn Gould co-founder of Foundation Capital. Mar Hershenson co-founder of the VC firm Pejman Mar Ventures. Sophie Lebrecht co-founder and CEO of Neon Labs. What did you look for in a Founder ?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. If they talk about using their co-workers recent big deal as motivation to come in early or stay late, or express a desire to surpass their own best sales numbers, this is a key indicator that the candidate is a top performer. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0:

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Eliot Burdett is the cofounder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast “.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). My blog was wiped out.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 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. Curt Haselton , co-founder and CEO of Haselton Baker Risk Group. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 2006. Curt Haselton.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2012

. “By donating contraceptives and promoting sexual education across the globe, we aim to put an end to the spread of sexually transmitted infections and improve sexual health overall,” says Cory Capoccia, founder of Conscious Contraceptives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

With over two decades in the digital marketing industry, he established his award-winning Melbourne-based digital agency WebSavvy back in 2006, to help small businesses grow. He co-authored The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads , now in its sixth edition, which is the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads, with over 130,000 copies sold.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. At the time David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO, was unhappy with how angel investing worked. Ultimately, we realized that the optimal model for what we were doing was Techstars , specifically the Techstars of 2006. Like Techstars, this is a new entity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Janine is VerticalResponse’s CEB (Chief Executive Blogger).

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 11, 2014

iFusion Marketing started out as a fractional CMO consultancy providing strategy development and marketing plan development services in 2006 in response to a need in the startup community. It never ceases to amaze me when I hear a founder say “yes, but we’re different” or “we don’t have competitors.”

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. The company began from my bedroom, back in 2006. As Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace , Charles Cridland has experience of growing a successful startup from its inception. YourParkingSpace almost didn’t take off.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It was late 2006 and I was serving old media as a national editor at an entertainment industry trade publication, plus freelancing for an alt-weekly and writing a book. And fun we’ve been having crossing the the country helping companies communicate better with their customers and co-workers. Thanks to Mary Black, Aging Youthful ! #3-

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2018

When my husband Josh and I launched our business Pagely in 2006, we had just been married a few months. So how did we progress from ambitious newlyweds with an entrepreneurial dream, to co-owners running an established company? Trusting your co-founder’s motives decreases the risk of worry and doubt undermining your collaboration.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. Sold to Yahoo!

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