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Gordon Bell R.I.P.

Steve Blank

2004 I’ll miss him. By the time I started my final startup Epiphany , Gordon was at Microsoft, and he became my most valuable advisor. Gordon was not only a mentor and inspiration to me, but to countless engineers and computer scientists. It was a privilege to know him.

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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. In every one of the last 15 years, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 have had a higher rate of entrepreneurial growth than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.

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Keeping it Real: The Struggle for Objectivity in Tech Reviews

VC Cafe

“All that any honest review actually does is just accelerate whatever was already going on” It’s hard to do the right thing for everyone Allow me to take you back to Dec 2004, when I started this very blog, VC Cafe. I used to cover every single round of funding of Israeli startups.

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How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023

VC Cafe

Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020. Eze Vidra, Remagine Ventures Venture remains attractive but LPs have been burnt With a 11.5% IRR (on average) over a 15-year horizon, Venture continues to outperform other long-term asset classes.

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Baby Boomers Are Surpassing Gen-Y As Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. In every single one of the last 15 years, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 have had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. These trends seem likely to persist.

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How the heck did the great European Renaissance emerge from the depth of its Dark Ages?

deal architect

I kept asking that question during a family trip to Italy in 2004. That puzzle led me to consider writing the New Florence, New Renaissance blog, in addition to the Deal Architect blog. Both blogs are celebrating their 15th birthday.

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