How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 24, 2014
” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. Here is the first 3 months of 2014 … . How is my scorecard looking?
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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.
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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0
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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. With seed up massively between 2006–2014 and A and B rounds relatively flat what you see is a widening of the funnel going into traditional venture. So What Impact Did the Drop in Tech Founding Costs Have on VC?
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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. It doesn’t take a huge leap to see how well the VC industry is positioned for the immediate future. But about that “bubble” we always hear about?
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 4- Semiconductors
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. Lee Bell, “ What is Moore’s Law? WIRED Explains the Theory that Defined the Tech Industry ” WIRED , Aug. Steve Blank, “ Chip Industry Tutorial ” Stanford Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation , September 2021. Oppenheimer , Dec.
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407 More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 1, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/24/2014. You too will be one someday, if you are not already. Be inclusive, and let’s continue to make entrepreneurship one of the most fun things around. boomers entrepreneurs gen-x gen-y startups'
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Investors Measure Entrepreneurs By Cashflow Mileage
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2014
Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/26/2014. If you adequately manage your burn rate, your startup is much less vulnerable to flaming out before you get to that elusive break-even point. burn rate business cashflow entrepreneur investor startup'
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How Much Founder Stock Should You Offer Co-Founders?
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/28/2014. Naïve cofounders have found themselves squeezed out in some recent cases, including Facebook. But don’t get greedy. It’s the power of the whole team that makes the business. business entrepreneurs startups'
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Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – Class 7 – Space
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
The third class focused on Russia, which since 2014 has asserted itself as a competing great power. -led liberal international order and replace it with its own neo-totalitarian model where China emerges as the dominant regional and global power.
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‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 14, 2014
Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Or, fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Personalize a simple web site.
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252 Updating Your Seed Investors – Board Deck & Update Email Templates
View from Seed
JULY 8, 2020
We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later. Download Investor Update Email Template. Investor Update Email Template and How & When to Use It.
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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2014
We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Whereas we had four partners investing Fund IV we now have six partners actively looking at deals for Fund V.
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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2014
That impact is now accelerating with the DC I-Corps node’s addition of the #1 research university in the country (Johns Hopkins) in 2014. But the biggest impact of 2014 has been from incorporating the Lean LaunchPad curriculum into our signature, year-long senior capstone course in bioengineering.
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7 Entrepreneur Traits That Let You Soar With Angels
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 6, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/28/2014. The strengths of those early relationships can override all of these results indicators, and let you fly with the Angels without a second look when the time is right. angel investors business Elon Musk entrepreneur startup traits'
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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you. These are the signs of innovation.
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417 Entrepreneurs Need To Reality Check Their Ideas
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/19/2014. It may indeed be better to freely donate your idea to a more qualified entrepreneur or team, rather than foolishly running it into the ground or sitting on it. One hundred percent of zero is still a small number. business entrepreneur idea reality check startup'
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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2013
We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. So what is an EIR and why Sam?
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How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 18, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/11/2014. If you really want your invention to change the world, maybe it’s time to give it to a proven entrepreneur and split the ownership of a new company. The million dollars will come in due time. business entrepreneur idea invention startup value'
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10 Actions That Highlight You As A Business Leader
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 13, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 12/05/2014. Leadership doesn’t come with success, but success does come with leadership. Don’t wait for someone else to show you the way -- you don’t want another entrepreneur out in front of you. actions business leader entrepreneur Phil Libin startup Tony Hsieh'
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MyMonero Wallet – Review And Complete Guide
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Mymonero wallet was put into operation in 2014 by Riccardo Spagni, a Monero project steward, to provide options to Monero GUI. This wallet utilizes private ring transactions, stealth addresses, and ring signatures to consolidate the amounts, sources, and the intended target of the transactions.
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214 Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 8, 2014
Our theme for 2014 is “teach a firm to fish” where we build more scalable support for portfolio companies. We reinvented our annual meeting and now use the occasion to throw an LA Tech & Investment conference with hundreds of the best tech you’ll see in LA. And did I mention RELAUNCH A NEW WEBSITE !
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Technical Entrepreneurs Often Fail By Early Adopters
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 23, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/14/2014. Ten percent of even a large opportunity can still leave you in the valley of death, rather than the pinnacle of success. chasm early adopters entrepreneurs Geoffrey Moore startups'
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Italy
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Since then, innovative startups registered in 2014 more than tripled their sales volume by the end of 2016, while those which registered in 2015 doubled their revenue in one year alone. Perhaps due to… This story continues at The Next Web.
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166 Preventing Stupid: 3 Questions Every Business Owner Must Ask
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 27, 2019
But in 2014, the oil price crashed — from $120 per barrel to down below $30. They may be forces of nature, such as a fire or hurricane, or market fluctuations. In western Oklahoma there are many companies depending on oil production for their livelihood. This was an absolutely disaster for those who did not see it coming.
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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014. But in all cases, it pays to keep your eyes wide open, and do your homework on the pitfalls that others before you have faced. Only then can you enjoy the journey, as well as reach the destination. business entrepreneur online gambling startup'
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254 A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2013
Looking ahead, a National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones press release predicts that 2014 will bring further good news for entrepreneurs across several fronts, including more investment, greater IPO volume for exits, greater employment opportunities at startups, and even more improvements in the economy.
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Framework Benchmarks Round 13
TechEmpower
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
This is largely the result of a considerable community effort over the past few months to identify and fix dozens of frameworks, some of which we haven’t been able to successfully test since 2014. Continuous benchmarking. Round 13 is the first round conducted with what we’re calling Continuous Benchmarking.
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Pricing determines your business
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
In fact, discussions of price in particular was the key to invalidating one business idea and then validating WP Engine , which now (2014) employs 200 people. to justify doubling your price (at which point, maybe you should do that an in fact double your price !). Price is not an afterthought, it is essential business design.
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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 6, 2014
See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. We’re the market leader in a space that is growing so unless there is an exogenous shock we will continue to grow.
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5 Competitors Of Instagram Reels In 2021
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 25, 2020
It was developed in 2014 and has become one of the competitors of Instagram Reels with the Ban of various Chinese apps like Tik Tok in recent times. The app helps users to create or share videos from the gallery. The Roposo App is a social media platform based in India is available for free.
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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2018
We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)
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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
Officially launched in November 2014, FilterSnap offers 72 filter sizes and a choice of 1, 2, 3, 6 or 12-month replacement schedules. The arrival of the box would be my reminder, and I would avoid the frustration of going to the store only to realize I could not remember which filter size I needed.
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188 Startups – Integrating Security Mindset and Processes Early
YoungUpstarts
MAY 29, 2017
SecAppDev 2014). Implementing security early makes it easier to do in the long run, and I hope the above article has given you some insight on where to start. The STRIDE Threat Model. Retrieved May 03, 2017, from [link]. Secure Development LifeCycles (SDLC) (Tech. Quan Heng Lim is a Cyber Operations Consultant for Horangi.
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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
It was adopted by the National Institutes of Health as I-Corps at NIH in 2014 and at the National Security Agency in 2015. The class is now taught in 9 regional locations supporting 98 universities and has trained over 1500 science teams. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats. If you can’t see the Silknet slides, click here.
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417 10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index. 275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. million businesses in 2014. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.
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120 6 Ways Your Business Processes Could Be Hurting Your Business
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
He previously served as RelateIQ’s Head of User Success & Business Operations, which was acquired by Salesforce.com in August 2014 as the first automatic and intelligent CRM solution.
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Why Invest in Digital Marketing
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Compare 2024 with 2014 and you’ll find that digital marketing, SEO, strategy, isation, and keywords were all still quite new. The scope of digital marketing has grown massively today.
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Why Solving Big Food & Healthcare Problems Will Yield Spectacular Companies
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2016
When we met Shireen (CEO) and Scott (Co-founder & CTO) in late 2014 they had been inspired to create Nima to address their own personal food issues and empower other people to live their healthiest lives. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.
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207 Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 2, 2014
As of 2014, individual health insurance plans are categorized in four standardized levels of coverage, called “metallic tiers of coverage.” Open enrollment in the Marketplace begins on November 15, 2014, and runs until February 15, 2015. These categories help you better compare plans “apples to apples.”
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World with Bitcoin
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 12, 2022
Bitcoin value fluctuates according to demand but it can also be traded for other types of currency at exchanges like MtGox which once made up 90% of Bitcoin transactions worldwide before suspending trading in early 2014, shortly after Bitcoin value plunged from about $1200 to around $500. As of this week, Bitcoin is worth about $564 USD.
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Data Heist: 5 Most Popular Data Breaches of the Century
The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 23, 2020
In 2016, Yahoo revealed that it had fallen victim to one of the biggest data breaches of the 21 st century (in 2014). Fast forward to today, even the biggest companies have at one point been hacked or have experienced a data breach. Here are 5 companies you wouldn’t believe got hacked!
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What Can You Learn From Ring’s Astounding Success?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 12, 2018
Generic cam’s could never match the security use case as well as Ring could and when consumers went online or to a store to find our product the offering was very clear. Where you see cameras on Amazon and think “cool, but what would I really use it for?”
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247 ESADE Business School Commencement Speech
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. So in closing, let me leave you with this final thought: A pessimist sees danger in every opportunity but an optimist. an optimist sees opportunity in every danger. In the last 150 years only a few generations have had the opportunity to reshape the nature of business.
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