Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. This is part of my Startup Advice series. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future. Ryan is now in his 30’s (old fart).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10-

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. We all know the famous story of Apple, which at one point kicked out its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. But I digress?—?this

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica. John Kieti Team Lead at m:lab.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. ” The founders of WeDidIt saw an opportunity and a need, and put aside the fears everyone who’s ever struck out on their own faces. It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We started all the way back in 1999, and despite the raised eyebrows and lack of roadmap, we’ve fostered some unthinkable transitions. Today, I believe virtually any business can — and should — go remote for optimal results. Do that, and you’re on your way to a remote work culture that shines over the long-term.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. This quote came from Patrick Lightbody, the CEO and founder of BrowserMob.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Launched in 1999, SeedCon is a student-run entrepreneurship and venture capital conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; the conference is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club alongside the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Investors and Entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Neil Waterhouse, founder and host of multiple Aussie eBay and E-Commerce Sellers Meetup Groups, advises start-ups to focus on proven products with a track record. Row Murray – Founder, and Digital and UX Director of Kenobi and Board Member on Vic ICT4.Women. Nathan Huppatz – Co-founder, Costumes.com.au

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. They purchased servers and installed them in cages at giant warehouses owned by third-party vendors.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) If you like to read IPO prospectuses, here’s the final S-1 filing after INIT went effective and started trading on July 8, 1999.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

By Kevin Sproles, founder and CEO of Austin’s Volusion “The best companies are deliberate about culture. The co-founder of Hubspot hit it on the head with this quote. I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. There is a wealth of information and connections on it. " Sponsor.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. If the answer is yes to any of these, you should keep reading. alongside our team and a few other portfolio companies, but will move out as the company grows.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

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. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

. “The KILN System has been used by large companies with established early-stage innovation processes since KILN launched at the Front-End-of-Innovation EMEA conference in Berlin in early 2011,” said Gregg Fraley, co-founder and Chief Solver of Kiln Ideas Ltd.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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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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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

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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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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder? The same is true of investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is exactly what happened in the broader VC industry between 1999-2001 as many people without the requisite skills entered the industry. But with its growth and success it will encourage many people to enter the market who will lack 5 critical success criteria for earning positive returns. I could obviously go on.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We invested in the company in 1999 during the ascension of the Internet bubble. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. We learned this dynamic in the early 2000’s with our investment in ServiceMagic.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. I described our existing investments in Whoop and Konekt and our thinking more broadly on businesses that have a hardware component.

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Internet Cofounder Stealth Seed Stage 100

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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