Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Lynda.com.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

11-Suggested by my partner’s husband. In the early 2000s, my co-publisher and I were writing a book on how to break into freelance writing by breaking the rules. but then my partner’s husband piped up, The Renegade Writer. I came up with the name HypnoBusters by collaborating with my business partner and brother.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.”

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Several years ago, my partner and I were busting our tails for 18 hours a day, but we weren’t really running our home services business. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo!

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Lynda.com.

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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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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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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. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. as early as a year or two after founding.

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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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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. So, for the latest episode of Greymatter, I sat down with my friend, Blitzscaling co-author, and fellow game geek Chris Yeh to take a deep dive into the details of how games have shaped my personality and career.

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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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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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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 went on to HBS and McKinsey after the SEALs and then started his own hedge fund with a partner, so he had an interesting, multi-faceted perspective. The discussion was wide-ranging and entertaining.

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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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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 It needs a business partner!

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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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. 

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. It's the only always-equal partnership, and the only way you can have an always-equal partnership, where new people join as equal partners, is for the older partners to get out of the way when they're not as productive. That was not the plan.

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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. Having a strong personal relationship makes running a company much easier…and your relationship with your business partners has many parallels with a marriage.

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