Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. That VC who saw me stick through hard times at my first company and get an exit at both companies is the firm where I’m now a partner. I knew my partners for 8 years before joining GRP.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2016

Find a customer to partner with in the early stages of the process that is willing to take that leap with you to help guide you through your transition. Ted Spooner’s 22 years of broad experience in financial services, technology, digital entertainment and healthcare IT led him to co-found RespondWell in 2003.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) The Rise of Mergers and Acquisitions -– March 2003 -2008 After the dot.com bubble collapsed, the IPO market (and most tech M&A deals) shutdown for technology companies. I find the same still going on with a few firms and partners.&#

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. Hunter is a partner at Homebrew and previously led consumer product management at YouTube.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

How a law firm got funded thanks to partners that wouldn’t give up. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. Who could you contact that might be interested in your business, even if you think they’re totally out of your league?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. This is so critical if you plan to build a strategic partner platform. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature?

Small Business 62

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2021

First launched in 2003, WordPress is the leading CMS by which 35% of the entire internet is powered. That said, while a younger company compared to WordPress, Webflow has worked hard to partner with applications to ensure your favorite integrations work with them as well. A brief history of WordPress.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). In 2003 – while Agile was known – it was largely limited to ISVs and a few leading IT organizations. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing.

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JUNE 14, 2011

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JUNE 16, 2011

Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : As the importance of Facebook as small business marketi. 5 Steps to Successful Fac. Currently Facebook boasts somewhere in excess of 400 mi.

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JUNE 16, 2011

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0 Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

Technical Review 128

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 2003, another CMS, called WordPress, came into play, and with its plugin architecture, WordPress quickly won the hearts of the development community. There was a point in time when, if you were to propose Shopify to a serious Web development agency, they would laugh and proudly display their Magento partner certificate.

PHP 143

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign helps small teams power big businesses with the must have platform for intelligent marketing automation. Partner feedback is so important. And if we're starting to think of something is not valuable for a material portion of the customer partner base, then that's a distraction. Where are we going?

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JUNE 24, 2011

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JUNE 21, 2011

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Small Business 70

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2013

They form the backbone of the economy as they contribute significantly to productivity, export and revenues,” says Vincent Wong, Director of Small, Medium Business & Partner Group, Microsoft Singapore. “SMEs make up over 99% of organizations and employ seven out of every 10 workers in Singapore.

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JUNE 7, 2011

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JUNE 9, 2011

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MAY 10, 2011

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Small Business 72

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. While I’d been a partner in Mobius from the beginning, I hadn’t really been engaged in managing the overall firm. In early 2003, I started to think about leaving Mobius. In March 2003 I fully engaged in Mobius. Here’s an example.

San Francisco 108

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. 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. He owns a substantial amount of shares in the company. Today, he is worth $1 billion.

Cofounder 141

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In the afternoon we had a partner session with a separate facilitator in which we talked more broadly about bias, diversity & inclusion. Towards the end of the day my partner Greg Bettinelli said, in effect, “If we leave here today having just talked and not changed anything then shame on us.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

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MAY 16, 2011

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Marketing 55

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . – Network.

Venture Capital 60

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. . – Network.

Venture Capital 60

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

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Web 54

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

If there is an opportunity to bring in a syndicate partner that will add exponential value, it would be foolish to not include them. No matter how capable and experienced, an entrepreneur needs as many trusted, networked and experienced eyes and ears to help her navigate through this dynamic market.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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MAY 17, 2011

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Brent Robinson is the Chief Thought Officer and Founding Partner of Modthink, a strategy firm where we focus on your people, culture and systems to impact operational efficiency, change management, transparency, and meaningful human relationships with customers through social networking. Backed by a B.A. Backed by a B.A.

Social Media 137

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The Next Web

MARCH 11, 2013

John Marshall began his enterprise-grade mobile device management company, AirWatch , in 2003 as a wireless hotspot management company before providing device management for old-school mobile devices. Marshall and his partner, Alan Dabbiere, then had an opportunity to take the business to the next level after a chance meeting with Apple.

Startup 124

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. The Union Square Ventures partners started whispering in his ear that “it’s all about social now”.

Semantic 302

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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. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly.

IPO 202

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 6, 2016

He formed his first corporation right out of college in 1991, started his second company- a Home Instead Senior Care franchise which became an INC5000 fastest growing company in 2011 and 2012- in 2003 which he sold in 2012. Corporate Partners. He started an organizational consulting company, Kisgen Group, Inc., Show Links.

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