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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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

Founders, I’m talking to you. I’ve seen past crises, cycles, and downturns as an investor and as a founder. In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. March 30, 2020. I’m one of you. It’s OK to be scared. You must be nuts.

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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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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 17, 2022

Larry Page is one of the most outstanding internet entrepreneurs the computer industry has ever seen. The 2006 purchase of YouTube by Google is among the most pertinent instances. Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, the founders of Spotify, are two entrepreneurs I believe best exemplify what it means to be innovative and a disruptor.

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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. Mr. Lindzon’s new media and internet business investments also include: Limos.com, Blogtalkradio.com, Buddy Media, Ticketfly, Assistly, Bit.ly and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

The buzz on the Internet these days is that if you want traffic, your website better have video. billion for the site in 2006. One large Internet information provider, comScore , says U.S. At least 66% of Internet users watch at least one video per month online. It’s necessary, but not sufficient. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! and his personality type seemed to be as the guy who built a wonderful, warm and fuzzy culture of purple at this new-fangled Internet kinda company. In the same way that AOL dithered and allowed us to become the Internet darlings we, too, avoided the big, company changing decisions.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Fears over technology stealing sales jobs is nothing new, it happened following the advent of both the phone and Internet. Eliot Burdett is the cofounder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram (great interview with them here ). This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company. The company has no public URL yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. was starting.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

HW: Having been at MySpace 2006-2009 do you have empathy today for what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are trying to solve (safety and abuse, manipulation)? When I went to MySpace, Chris DeWolfe, our co-founder and CEO, made safety a company-wide priority and we owned up to what we were doing poorly.

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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. Tempus Fugit.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”? CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. Twitter followers.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Jason Cohen is the founder of the WPEngine and Smart Bear Software. Management. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com. Marketing & Sales. A Smart Bear | Jason Cohen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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. I believe that looking at hardware curves is always simpler and more accurate. Gene Kim laughed at my prediction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Rae Hoffman-Dolan Rae is the Principal of Sugarrae SEO Consulting and does various types of Internet marketing; search engine optimization, viral marketing, affiliate marketing, site auditing, link development road maps and tons of other little nooks and crannies of this business.

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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. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

2006) [iii]. However, we believe in looking at companies first and evaluating them against the thesis the founders articulate, vs. going in with a thesis and looking for companies that fit the thesis. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing. Corporate Financier, October 2006. [iv]

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , Wintegra founders Kobi Ben-Zvi and Robert O’Dell will join PMC-Sierra. Internet giant Yahoo is acquiring Israeli display ad optimization technology developer start-up Dapper for $55 million.

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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. I remember hearing the Spanx founder, Sara Blakely, talk about brand names and how having a strong K sound in your name made it more memorable. 3- Simple way.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc.,

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Earlier, Sood was working for Hewlett-Packard, which had acquired his company VoodooPC, a boutique maker of high-end gaming computers, in 2006. Ouya founder: ‘We never anticipated that it would blow up like this.’

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 13, 2017

Toss in readily available, high-speed mobile Internet and you have the perfect mix of access and apps to make any small business owner fully mobile. Cloud-based applications (aka “software as a service”, or SAAS ) are widely available and cover most of the needs of business owners, with very few compromises.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 13, 2017

Toss in readily available, high-speed mobile Internet and you have the perfect mix of access and apps to make any small business owner fully mobile. Cloud-based applications (aka “software as a service”, or SAAS ) are widely available and cover most of the needs of business owners, with very few compromises.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 11, 2021

First and foremost, my brother had cerebral palsy and died in 2006 while I, on the other hand, have good health and a fully functioning body so I have no reason to complain and more than enough motivation to pursue my passion. Being a good founder is knowing how to lead from the back. What am I grateful for? 6- Being able to pivot.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. So is the internet. Jinni isn’t a social network, it’s an internet application designed to fit how people relate to movies and TV. CellBuddy - Company Website. Evolero - Company Website.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. On today’s podcast, I speak with Arnie Kuenn, an international speaker, author, and founder and CEO of Vertical Measures.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Since its founding in 2006, BlaBlaCar’s story has had many chapters. Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. We filed Chapter 11, and had to restructure and rebuild the company, which we sold in 2006.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Today’s #GivingThanks is to David Cohen , one of the founders and co-CEO of Techstars. I met David on one of my random days in 2006. Remember, it’s 2006 and angel investing is not trendy. Our initial funding was provided by the Techstars founders and a few other people close to Techstars.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. My whole world blew up in 2001. There was no joy anywhere. In March 2003 I fully engaged in Mobius.

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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. Harness the internet to validate your business idea.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects. INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Computer And Internet. Internet Services.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

You might be able to build a reasonably successful business by spotting a hole in some market somewhere, but it’s much more likely that outlandish success will be won by founders (and, really, people ) who are authentically interested in solving a problem. Sector: Insurance in the Internet Age. Maybe a loved one or friend did.

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