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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange.

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has learned in his business career

The Next Web

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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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

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. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. 13 years later, GMR Web Team is the face of my business while Global Marketing Resources is just a legal entity that owns GMR Web Team.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail…. So the alternative of a global currency will emerge. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. That actually wasn’t the biggest.