Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

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?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

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. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2012

I talked to my co-founder Brian Moran (we launched the company in Ireland) about it. He had been working in the 1990′s for a large global real estate developer called Hines ( which he has now rejoined ). 1 week later the market crash of 2000 began and the dot com market began to collapse and financings with it.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. That crisis saw a global spending decrease of 9%, with U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint. SailPoint’s worldwide partner network saw dramatic growth in 2010.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. Hopefully we will see you there! TechCrunch Disrupt NYC.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. As founders invest massive amounts of time into their start-up, how critical is it for them to come out of their “hermit caves” and network?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2012

In addition to being a mom of four, Bailey is an author, hosts a radio talk show and multiple TV shows, runs a marketing business, and is the founder of BlueSuitMom.com and Smart Mom Solutions. Maria Bailey : Maria Bailey knows a thing or two about maintaining work/life balance.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. all from one place ensuring consistent messaging across organization and clients. Produce more engaging content.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. Instead, the global pandemic has turned 2020 into its most harrowing year. You become a global company. If you're in the travel business, a global pandemic is an existential threat. 8:22) On how crisis reveals character. (9:11)

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Alex Panelli. Read More ».

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Already, thousands of people had started creating their own globally accessible web pages focused on whatever they wanted. After leaving Fujitsu a couple years earlier, I had co-founded a company called SocialNet and was in charge of product there. They were posting constantly updated photos of their coffee pots. It was 1999.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. Next page: The transition from a founder who does all the sales to a scalable sales team is really, really hard.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

. “Having shown an excellent track record in weathering the most recent crisis via timely monetary and fiscal policy responses, the country earned well deserved respect and confidence among global investors,&# the bank said. ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. GE LIGHTING BUYS ISRAELI LED CO LIGHTECH.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

After rapid international expansion across several continents, as the founding team brought Silicon Valley’s global ambition into Europe, and the extension of its offering to buses and multimodal transportation, BlaBlaCar is preparing for the travel rebound expected as the world reopens. How did you go from VC to founder?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Jered Lawson , co-founder of Pie Ranch , a 14-acre farm on California’s San Mateo coast that is reconnecting people to their food. Chase Adam , founder of Watsi , is on a mission to provide healthcare for every person in the world. Jered Lawson. Chase Adam.

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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. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. As I watched, I felt our global bond become stronger than ever. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 15, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. The Accel 2020 Euroscape will be presented at SaaStock in October. Last year, we predicted it would take three years for Europe to mark its first Decacorn. 2020 has been the best of times and the worst of times.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The data says otherwise) it was indicated that, according to global investment firm Cambridge Associates, the failure rate for startups has not exceeded 60 % since 2001, based on the monitoring of venture capital investments of 27,259 startups between 1990 and 2010. Data Says Otherwise. Why do so many companies fail? Losing focus.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

After the turn of the century, startups created fewer jobs than they did before the year 2000. Several economic factors make healthcare a likely place where your startup will see profits: The global preventive healthcare technologies and services market is expected to reach $432.4 It’s time for a startup that benefits the world.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. As I watched, I felt our global bond become stronger than ever. . That’s how VisionSpring was born.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. UiPath broke that milestone this summer, in just nine months, establishing Europe as a major global center for software innovation. The 2020 Accel Euroscape was unveiled earlier today at SaaStockEMEA.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Who’s next?

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Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

My inaugural keynote lecture focused on the challenges and opportunities for Salzburg to become a global center of innovation excellence. How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? In my view this commitment to collaborate is in place.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Netscape Navigator…

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 24, 2024

But he was best known as one of the founders of the discipline of AI. In fact, he co-authored the paper that coined the term “artificial intelligence.” Cathedral projects—such as the Apollo Moon Landing program and our global effort to mitigate climate change—are important for the progress of human society.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. Thanks to Steven Randall, Vonya Global ! #8-Provide As a result, I cofounded Artemis Health, a company that offers a benefit optimization data platform for employers. It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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