K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

My inclination was that “this is a team of scrappy founders, and I like how they think.”. In CS147 one of the video we showed to the class was the Sun Starfire concept video that was produced in 1994. Doug and his co-founder Vivek Nair , were not planning on raising any venture capital money yet. advisor Prof.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. James Dondero has lived in Dallas since 1994.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. The vision of sorting through receipts “mining” for deductions makes procrastinators out of all of us.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Andy Jassy will be taking over as CEO, and Jeff will be Executive Chairman.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m going to start by going back to 1994. 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. It’s proven accurate on many occasions.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started making angel investments in 1994, Len invested alongside me in many companies, including NetGenesis, Harmonix, and Oblong. We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.)

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

My long time friend and co-angel investor Will Herman wrote a post titled Angel Investing that summarized some of his advice. Will is finishing up his 31st angel investment (we’ve done a bunch together – including my very first one – NetGenesis in 1994) and he walks through what he’s learned from 16 years of angel investing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

One of his biggest mistakes since starting his business came in 1994, in the form of Virgin Cola. Reed Hastings, CEO and cofounder of Netflix, felt the public’s wrath in September 2011, when he announced that the DVD section of US Netflix would become separate from the streaming service and renamed Qwikster.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago. Two years ago, Tianyi co-founded SmartHealth Activator, an early stage biotech accelerator and venture firm in North Chicago. SmartHealth is built upon passion and proximity.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. I hope to finish the final draft of my next book, Startup Opportunities (co-authored with Sean Wise), while I’m up here.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

There was something about her – a seductive mystery mixed with a nautical theme that was exactly what the founders were looking for. Google’s founder’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally nicknamed it as BackRub, as backlinks determined the importance of a site. But it did work and how! . Clever, isn’t it?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The new money comes in at a pre-money valuation of $100, but includes a complete refresh of founder equity to 40% of the company. So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%. Sure – it happens.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2018

Even Rubén Blades was there, an expert in the bias-laden trifecta industries of music, cinema and politics (Blades ran for President of Panama in 1994). Latinitas staff with Curly from Pero Like The founder of the colonialism combatant news feed Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas, put it best: “I get called out. White guys?—?we

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Sometimes the writer gets this right and links it back to John Underkoffler, the co-founder of Oblong, but many times they don’t. More of the history is at Oblong’s post origins: arriving here that go back to 1994. Today the NY Times got it right in their article You, Too, Can Soon Be Like Tom Cruise in ‘Minority Report’.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. She works with, with you, me and co-teaches at, at Harvard, some other places with me. And that, to me, that is simple as the new superpower. (07:36):

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our In addition, we are equally delighted to co-invest with angels and super angels, or not. each are equally happy situations.)

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Co-founder Mark Hedlund did us all a favor recently by posting Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. minute long interview with Steve Jobs from 1994 has been floating around the Web recently and I love it. But I digress. And now I am passing this knowledge along to you.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 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. From 1994-98, Kathy was responsible for Stanford’s Sponsored Projects Office. Clips from their interview are below. Want to be a guest on the show?

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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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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York. tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. Niraj Ranjan Rout is the founder of Hiver (formerly GrexIt). Martin Harrison , Co-founder, Copify. Martin Harrison is co-founder of online content service Copify .

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. It was 1994: the Internet was still in its infancy and e-commerce was still a relatively new phenomenon. One less worry for moms. 43) Fills a need.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Josh Cohen is the CEO and founder of Junkluggers. What’s a BHAG?

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