Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Note that I’m not defining who numbers 1,2 are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. He's also the co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London in San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford.

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Artificial Inteligence San Francisco Framework Cofounder 66

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 21, 2017

But we’ll get there … We’ve been investing in stuff around 3D since we started Foundry Group in 2007. We believed that in 2007 we were at the beginning of a 30+ year shift that would make the WIMP interface , which emerged in the early 1980s and was dominant in 2007, look and feel punch-card archaic in the future.

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Mezzanine San Francisco Restful Leadership 97

SiliconHills

AUGUST 1, 2013

Dropbox, based in San Francisco, plans to open its second U.S. The company, founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, has more than 175 million customers. office in Austin and is hiring. The Austin office will focus on Dropbox’s growing business base, according to this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

In 2007, two financially strapped friends, Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky , decided to rent out rooms in their apartment to designers visiting San Francisco for the International Design Conference after all the hotel rooms in the area were booked up. She should know. Homejoy was named one of the Hottest U.S. Startups of 2013.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2017

I started my business in San Diego in 2007. I wanted to move to a city… San Diego was a little too boring for me. My grand plan was to go to San Francisco, but I applied for one job in NYC and got it! Image Credit: Dana Humphrey. Applied, had a phone interview, flew to NYC and moved within ten days.

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San Diego Entrepreneur Software Review Southern California 109

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each company must have something unique and different about what it is doing. Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. Frighteningly Early.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. Paul Graham When I moved to the east coast in 2007 I made it a goal to see Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham speak at some point. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

Marc Andreessen hardly needs introduction, but we're pleased to introduce him anyway--as a keynote speaker for The Lean Startup Conference on December 3, 2012 in San Francisco. Marc wrote about it way back in 2007 when he addressed the question, "What causes success?"

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Lean Silicon Valley San Francisco Cofounder 158

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Co-located in Shanghai and San Francisco, the AirPop product brand is a line of sensing, high-efficiency air pollution accessories for 4 billion+ people breathing pervasive ambient air pollution. I attended in 2007. Bruce Sterling’s closing keynote/rant where he talked about the internet in 2007 as “folk” technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2014

San Francisco, for instance, in 2007 passed the first such law and in 2012 Connecticut became the first state requiring such coverage. Current Federal law mandates that employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for family or medical reasons, without losing their health insurance or being in danger of losing their job.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2014

When Huddle started back in 2007, CEO Alastair Mitchell tells us, it was a “bedroom startup with a team of two.” ” In seven years, it has grown to employ more than 150 people in London, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C. and it opened its first overseas office in San Francisco.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2018

It all began in 2007 when Joe Gebbia had an idea about making the money for that month’s rent. He emailed his roommate, Brian Chesky and told him about putting up three air mattresses in their loft in San Francisco and renting them to people coming to a big design conference in the city.

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San Francisco Startup Security Internet 69

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. I might also mention that she is a budding stand-up comic working the mic at clubs in Chicago and San Francisco. Thanks, Bianca!

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Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

A 2007 study of Dutch companies by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that venture capitalists had a positive influence on their portfolio companies' innovation strategy because they pushed their “capacity to assimilate and exploit new knowledge.” ( PDF ). Venture Capital ? Innovation. Depends on who, and how, you ask.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. Some press showed up, too. Um… wow.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Ratchet Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2010

This deal will make the company the Austin-based game studio for Zynga, adding to operations in San Francisco, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Bangalore, and Beijing. Challenge Games, backed by Sequoia Capital and Globespan Capital Partners, launched in 2007 to focus on immersive Web game development built on a virtual goods business model.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

While Canada doesn’t yet have the deep financial and technical infrastructure that cities such as San Francisco and New York have built over many years of flourishing startup activity, many Silicon Valley alumni are recognizing an opportunity and relocating north.

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New York Venture Capital Canada Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Since at least 2007, Austin has been the fastest growing metro area in America. Selfishly, to me, this means we need more progressive voters coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn and San Francisco and Los Angeles and other cities that will lose some of their grip on jobs and buzz and quality of life for creatives after COVID.

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

← More “Open Source&# Legal Tools 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco → Comments are closed. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , HBS student business plan contest , startup. Bookmark the permalink.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

In addition, the competition for and the cost of hiring people, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, has gone up dramatically. The early-stage vacuum that existed in 2006-2007 that then led to the formation of “Seed” funds, is oddly enough re-emerging as the Micro-VCs who once dominated this space move upstream.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. We are very interested in investing in fast growing companies in different geographies.

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North Carolina Finance Charlotte Advisory Board 70

Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

I had the idea to start Blue Compass in 2007 because I saw the need for a service. Our largest client was a world-famous ad agency based in San Francisco. That was in April of 2012 and I can confidently say that I sold the books, I bought the ring, and I got the girl. Thanks to Ben Pagel, Buzz Bookstore. #9

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. This is a guest post by Jeff Jordan, General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. Talk about a business with humble roots. A prominent design conference was coming to town and the nearby hotels were sold out.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 1, 2010

As recently as 2007 the Small Business Administration estimated that there were more than 21 million self-employed entrepreneurs without employees in the United States. The number of self-employed and freelance entrepreneurs has seen steady growth over the past two decades. Co-working spaces are being established all around the country.

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Nashville San Francisco Bootstrapping Philadelphia 70

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. In fact, cities represent some of the earliest network effects.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Expo San Francisco 2010 ) and a whole lot of them are very well positioned. I can talk about "discourse-based decision support system" til the cows come home, c/w references to cognitive ergonomics and "helmet fire". but there are plenty of folk who talk as well or better than I (see last weeks Web 2.0 Parley-vous "A-list"?).

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NDA Technical Review Non-Compete San Francisco 52

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If youd asked me to rank the top most important people Id met that year, I doubt it would look very impressive in retrospect. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

all IPO’d circa 2007/08 for a combined market value of around AUD $13 billion. on Kickstarter in just six days (more than 10 times its original funding target), relocated to San Francisco and started shipping in late 2013. The teams are now based in both Melbourne and San Francisco. and RealEstate.com.au

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

readwrite.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Back in 2007, that might have seemed like a crazy thing to do. After all, Zynga and Groupon, the darlings of the consumer wave, have tanked. Facebook's stock collapse robbed the company of some of its sparkle. A Smart Bet On The Enterprise. He focused Box entirely on the enterprise. Facebook and Twitter were the hot new things.

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Silicon Valley Architecture San Francisco Cloud 64

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 6, 2023

I mean, but Duct Tape Marketing came out in 2007, and I'm still getting, you know, royalty checks, you know, for that, because that back list of 600 or 6,000, I don't have many books, you know, is where they actually make their money. And I remember early on, I traveled out to San Francisco. They bank on, you know, that top 10.

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Artificial Inteligence Leadership Audience Michigan 57

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

contributor since 2007 and She’s been featured in USA Today, TIME, Forbes, Businessweek, TechCrunch and Social Media Today. Janine was named 2010 Small Business Person of the Year in San Francisco by the U.S. She has been a frequent Inc. SBA, and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist from 2006-2009.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Between 2007 – 2016, 1 million Californians relocated outside of the state largely for financial reasons. In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4 The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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