The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In the first of a new series talking to tech industry leaders about what shaped them as entrepreneurs and the lessons they’ve learned in their careers, we speak to Netflix co-founder and CEO, Reed Hastings. In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. I was just in shock!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. Similarly, 24% of all the patents filed in the US in 2006 had a foreign resident as inventor or co-inventor. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., When Pixar released Toy Story in 1995, Jobs understood that audiences weren’t interested in the process or technological tools that make up the Pixar animation system. who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Lynda.com.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. Nettuno is an experienced entrepreneur – he co-founded Milestone Financial Group which was later acquired by Raymond James, Inc. No more missed appointments.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

In the early 2000s, my co-publisher and I were writing a book on how to break into freelance writing by breaking the rules. We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. Thanks to David Batchelor, DialMyCalls ! #11-Suggested

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet. The retailers that survive anyway. They have a willingness to ‘open source’.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

If you aren’t technical, go find a technical co-founder right now – there are hundreds of them on this campus. Pick that domain that turns you on the most – start at a high level (e.g. software, Internet, clean tech) but then pick a thing that you really care about and a set of problems you want to solve.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

My guests this week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM Channel 111 were: Kathryn Gould co-founder of Foundation Capital. Mar Hershenson co-founder of the VC firm Pejman Mar Ventures. Sophie Lebrecht co-founder and CEO of Neon Labs. What did you look for in a Founder ?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Lynda.com.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Savvy founders don’t just focus on iterating their own products – they look to other industries and niches for inspiration and opportunity as well. To find out which industries tech founders should look to next, I asked a panel of 13 founders the following: What is one industry (or niche) tech founders should be exploring now, and why?

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The event will be held at the recently-established Stamford Innovation Center , of which fellow panelist Barry Schwimmer is Founder and Managing Partner. CI was created by the state legislature in 1989 and has been investing private money since 1995.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Take Craigslist founder Craig Newmark , for example. He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. A good example is Google cofounder Larry Page. Make the Most of Applied Math.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. 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. We moved to Boulder in November 1995 and never looked back – it’s been amazing.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’ve known and worked with Andy since 1995 (I was on the board of his first company – Abuzz – which was acquired in 1999 by the New York Times) and am awed by the amazing things he’s doing in Seattle these days, including Founder’s Co-op , RevenueLoan , and of course TechStars Seattle.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 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. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

The fact is, the average worker spends up to 60 percent of every workday in email, searching for information or collaborating with co-workers. And 60 percent of our time in email is spent with co-workers. That may explain why after he became Co-Founder and CEO of ACT!, Email Less. Collaborate More. Following ACT!’s

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. So we made a pact among the founders that when any of us reached the point that we weren't willing to go 110%, you had to opt out. I loved what I was doing, but I'd been successful, and I wasn't willing to work as hard.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995. The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

One of my portfolio company CEOs, Will Tumulty of Ready Financial , is a former Navy SEAL (1990-1995). Brendan is also the co-founder of the Navy SEALs Foundation , a non-profit that helps take care of the families of SEALs when things don't go as smoothly as they did in Pakistan a few weeks ago.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2017

About the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program Created by the Texas Legislature in 1995 and administered by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program recognizes employers with written policies reflecting their support for their breastfeeding employees.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. I find that once young people choose a particular start-up community, they stay there. Pick a Stage.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

The founders amaze me with how quickly they have expanded and developed — they do this while having full-time jobs and being under the age of 25…what?! You’ll probably hear founder, Jane Hervey asking the crowd to “embrace the awkward,” and introduce yourself to somebody new. I knew I had found my group! They are killing it.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

As much as anything, it's about the two distinctly different founders whose diversity was the reason for the company's rapid growth.and its nearly catastrophic decline. RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 But technology, alone, won't win the day.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  4)      Boston.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

When GDPR takes effect it will replace the data protection directive from 1995. John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid , a service that gives email marketers a preview of how their emails are displayed in the most popular email clients and mobile devices. Best Practices for Compliance.

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