Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Eric) In a bar in Amsterdam in 2005, my two cofounders and I came to the sad conclusion that startup we tried to built for two years was doomed. In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. What follows are solely his opinions.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. Viktor Marohni?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Jason Cohen is the founder of the WPEngine and Smart Bear Software. Management. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com. Marketing & Sales. A Smart Bear | Jason Cohen.

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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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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. Taking the safe career option, the regular job, the job that pays the bills, is admirable. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. It has been a rocket ship from there. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. A Smart Bear.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors. Instead the founders need to lead a customer development team. So I wrote a book about this called the Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

The centerpiece of the pledge is the Walker Rule, which is inspired by the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which was created by the late Dan Rooney in 2003 and is now supported by his son, Art Rooney II, President of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Rooney Rule requires every NFL team to interview at least one minority candidate for head coach vacancies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. And revisit my point about whether you are the archetypal founder who will get tons of money thrust upon you. Fair point.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets. → Learn More.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. It's the founders themselves. Can you find the right co-founder? So woman founder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people. The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. Nettuno is an experienced entrepreneur – he co-founded Milestone Financial Group which was later acquired by Raymond James, Inc. In 2003, he departed Nettworth to found Schedulicity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. I dont think sharding came from the MMO world, we were using the term at Google before MMOs started becoming popular. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Eric, I stop by regularly!

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. The ‘jockey,’ of course, is the founder and leadership team. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is co-founder & president of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization. Thinking Aloud entrepreneur founder leadership management startup theSwizzle'

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. MaryAnn Bekkedahl is co-founder & president of theSwizzle and an expert in email organization. Do you ever wonder how we functioned before email? She was named Adweek Media’s “Publishing Executive of the Year” in 2009.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? startupcto

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. 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. This sale turned him into a billionaire. Jason Guss.

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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. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008).

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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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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. By 2003 nearly all of their competitors had failed, the companies that went public pre-bubble were trading sub-$1 / share, but ServiceMagic was growing like crazy and was very profitable.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Shravan Parsi is CEO and founder of American Ventures , and author of “ The Science Of The Deal: The DNA Of Multifamily & Commercial Real Estate Investing “ He is an entrepreneur and innovator with a background in the diverse fields of real estate investing and pharmaceutical research.

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