Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. I lived through this again September 2001. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos calls it the “Two-Pizza Rule” — a team should be no larger than can be fed by two pizzas. Consider the approach taken by Mike Sinyard, founder of Specialized Bicycles. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Is this fair?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2018

He previously cofounded Scintera, a fabless semiconductor company in 2001. Advanced and smarter video analytics solutions will be the baseline which other new and exciting solutions will draw from, and where we will be able to keep ourselves safe and to understand and measure the world around us.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. I fund both types all the time.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Diversification across industry sectors is not as easily achieved for angels as could be accomplished in public markets, but can be achieved by co-investing with trusted angel colleagues in a broader set of businesses. Is the founder coachable? A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio. — No.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Patience & Persistence – [link].

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics. There are so many founders and entrepreneurs that openly write about their own failures so learning from others is increasingly easy. He’s also the founder and former CEO of iSuppli Corporation. Learn from other people’s mistakes – Neil Patel.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved. What is the Best Practice Institute? What is its mission?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

asks event co-organizer Leo Newball Jr. “No The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. or what is first check and our response is that the seed landscape is so confusing, and what founders need is an investor with courage and conviction to lead their rounds and support them from day 1.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This lasted from about 2001-2004. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2013

by Elisha Tan, founder of Learnemy. Boyd Au is the co-founder of Enzer Corporation Ltd with over 25-years proven track record in entrepreneurship. He started his business from scratch and grew it into a public-listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 2001. So what do you do? You can enroll for the seminar here.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

when you missed your targets, when your co-founder quit, when the competition chose your competitor or when the other investors around the table lost confidence? My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. You’d be surprised how many ex-founders and ex-CEO’s you can find this way. When the world was ending?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

It’s still important advice for startup founders and something that I’m passionate about. You’re a startup founder. You start fighting with your co-founder whom you thought you understood. When my company hit the fan in 2001 I could have easily walked and gotten a better paying job.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

“Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” Premium-brand market leaders [.] Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I recession in 2009.”.

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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

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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

That perfectly describes how 2001 felt to me. In 2001, I was on the board of four public companies (and was co-chairman of two of them which I had been a co-founder of.) By mid-2001 I think all of these stocks were sub-$1 sotcks and – if they weren’t – they would be soon.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Source: Pexels.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2019

We initially launched in Germany before expanding into the UK and France, and then sold the company to our North American competitor AbeBooks in 2001. My co-founder Hannes Blum and I joined the AbeBooks HQ and co-led the company for many years until we sold it to Amazon in 2008.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

Back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, a flood of LP capital was coming into the VC asset class given the strong returns of the mid-late 90s tech boom/bubble. For example FRC launched a founders equity exchange fund and various programmatic forms of knowledge sharing like list serves, CEO summits, conferences, etc.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. I’ll also never forget all of the potential technical co-founders that we talked to who never seemed to be a perfect fit. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 2001, in conjunction with the Russian Space Agency, American entrepreneurs Peter Diamindis, Eric C. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Joe Carlen is the co-founder of Value Guards, LLC and a practitioner of business valuation, patent valuation, and market assessment. Certainly, the U.S.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

By this time, Erin had already spent 4 years in operations at a startup that was in skyrocket growth mode, so she knew her knowledge in scaling operations was as valuable as this idea; she became my co-founder. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) At Mobius, we invested in Vytek, another company Len co-founded. Len loved to smoke a cigar.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Nest Labs founder Tony Fadell said, “If you don’t have an emotionally engaging design, no one will care.”. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Jobs felt taste came from his own understanding of the yin-yang of science and humanity.

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