Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

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.

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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. For the first time in history there are Israeli companies scaling up successfully as global market leaders, and the ecosystem is evolving to support them. The founders have started companies before. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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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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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

Compliance laws reach a global market, so let’s visit a few that affect any international email your marketing team sends. Global SPAM Laws. If you’re larger than a mom and pop shop, complying and understanding global laws is pertinent to your bottom line. But these guidelines don’t stop at the U.S. Use the Double Opt-in Method.

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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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

He admitted no one would want to watch a seven-hour fight with his cofounders.”. In the real world, the montage is where ff Venture Capital and our founders live. trillion global industry, but I find most of the content is, well, misleading. What movies actually show what happens in the montage, where companies get built?

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