Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

1/ Personal security as a service will emerge as a hot topic/app/service people pay for. 5/ Alternate use case for a withered technology. With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. A cautious person wouldn’t try to pry people out of Twitter right before their IPO to” join my cause!!”

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, “We just patented a new battery technology that will cut your smartphone charge time and cost in half.” Be sure to include this in your “elevator pitch,” which you must always deliver as a prelude to your technology features. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. can we make a product out of this technology?

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Securities and Exchange Commission , we again present Mark Zuckerberg , co-founder of Facebook and indeed an amazing, inspirational entrepreneur. At Facebook, we’re inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. This is how we think about our IPO as well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

T aking a company through an initial public offering (IPO) is not an easy task. It’s also an uncertain exit for the entrepreneurs, as they are typically restricted to sell any of their stock in the first 180 days following the IPO, and even then they can sell no more than 1% of stock a month. percent of the company. percent). —

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was visiting his and my alma mater in Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, where I had just graduated a few months prior and was bumming around getting my own startup off the ground. GOOGLE GLASS COULD HAVE IDENTIFIED THE BOSTON BOMBER.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. The Wall Street Journal.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. In addition to revitalizing America’s slipping global competitiveness, restoring emerging company IPOs in the U.S. IPO market. Share and Enjoy:

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. All key technologies for autonomous driving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Thanks Eric.

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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). The name of the last part? Netflix vs. Blockbuster: Round Four (Lights Out?)” How can a company be so oblivious to a small start-up?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?" Turns out, I had been lecturing the creator of the ActiveX security model. I was wondering if you could expand on finding a technical co-founder. Any advice?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. And it was 2007.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. On the IPO front, the one word that comes to mind is “supersize”. We can see ecommerce/marketing has been boosted by COVID and security is in second place, with cyber criminality not slowing down.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. And it was 2007.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2010

SecondMarket’s effort in Israel will be led by Ranan Lachman (VP) , who was previously at Oppenheimer & Co, one of the largest underwriters for Israeli startups, where he was involved in fundraising and IPOing numerous Israeli private companies. The Israeli operations will be based in Herzliya and New York.“Israel

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? Now they hate their jobs and have no job security or path to becoming really wealthy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

To learn more about the product and the founder’s ambitious vision, I interviewed Erez Pilosof, founder and CEO of Libox who also founded and ran Walla! Israel’s largest online portal) from inception to IPO as well as Oren Nauman, formerly CEO of Mobival , who serves as deputy CEO at Libox. VC Cafe: You are co-CEOs.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

It’s pretty easy to forget how much a new technology changes our lives once it’s adopted. Sure, some new technologies are like shooting stars, but some change everything forever. What happened: Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations + Facebook goes public with IPO. Facebook goes public.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers. However, it made me remember that Im tired of technology arguments. January 16, 2009 2:02 PM Chrissaid. Nice article.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. ” 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. No need to worry about security and such. Ad Serving Technology.

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