Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

It was all technical. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. Technical founder. And my specialty was computer networks.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 15, 2015

Many factors come into play in early board formation including the founder’s goals, investors, cofounders, early appointees, family, friends. It’s fine to have the founder and maybe one cofounder on the board; after all that’s all you have to draw from. Which ones should be advisors instead?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The fine print?

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we had no revenue. As a result, we knew that our pitch would need to steer into investors’ biggest concern: the lack of revenue. Instead, our strategy was to steer immediately into the revenue question because that was the top concern of investors in 2004. We made the mistake of listing three different revenue streams.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

If a VC asks his advisors what they think of your deal and they dislike it, it’s dead. If you’ve accomplished very little and are still a few years away from revenue, VCs aren’t going to invest in your deal. Nicole Gravagna, PhD, Director of Operations, and Peter K. Horrifying, but true. It’s simply too risky.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

From that life altering event, Ella Bing was born as a family owned and operated business in 2012. I hit over six figures in my first year in business – and the company revenue has increased annually ever since. So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. There weretwo types of responses: that you have to be careful who you pickas a cofounder, and that you have to work hard to maintain yourrelationship. The lesson: dontpick cofounders who will flake. These were the biggest: 1.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Expedia grew to account for roughly one third of the company’s revenues. Think about that.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. First of all, the enterprise level processes and the one like you described, where there is one or two people just trying to do basic sales with Highrise, extremely different context that they operate in, and different price points, by the way. We would rather chase revenue.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Andy Grove was Intel’s third employee (after the two cofounders Robert Noyce and Gordon E. In addition to the basic hardware and operating system, he added applications (iLife, iWork) and peripherals (like the iPod).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. Patrick: How close did he get?

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S. as early as a year or two after founding.

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