Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. As an i2E Board member for almost a decade, what has been your favorite i2E accomplishment? How can a decade have flown by!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

He suggested an idea that comes from the NFL called “ The Rooney Rule ” enacted in 2003 in an effort to end the era of all-white football coaches in a league with > 75% African American players. We immediately realized this was a great idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). At the highest level (and with a board) these are great metrics to keep focused on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Roccia joined straight from Georgetown the same year, 2003, and left as the magazine’s accessories editor in 2008. For those who might be curious, their former boss, Anna Wintour, is a champion of theirs. “It’s why people liked wedding registries.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). VantagePoint Venture Partners came to the rescue in late 2003 with an infusion of $15 million in capital, adding Andrew Sheehan (now at Sutter Hill Ventures ) and David Carlick (now at Rho Ventures ) to the Board.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 26, 2015

ED ZIMMERMAN : In 2003, I remember the general counsel of a prestigious venture fund shouting down the idea of “secondary” or “founder liquidity” (i.e. No surprises in the board room. Good governance also means founders need to let the board hash it out a bit without the founder present.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2003 / Great service really does win business. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board. To celebrate our anniversary, I’m sharing a few pivotal lessons I have learned during each of these wonderful years. I certainly did. Bonus lesson: Set your domain name to auto-renew!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The great thing about a social enterprise is that everyone wants to help improve social and environmental well-being and will be likely to jump on board if you create a successful business model. If you create a solution that works, partnerships will be easy to come by.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Then they come to us, we invest in them, and I join the board. I don’t think we know what they’re going to look like, but the economics are just too compelling What has the narrative been for AI over the last 50 years? The narrative is this episodic thing with summers and winters and all of these false promises.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 24, 2014

It was 1996 when Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan first uttered the now historic phrase “ irrational exuberance.” What was it in 2003? Silicon Valley thrives on optimism, and anyone waving the bubble flag is auditioning for the title of nonbeliever or party pooper. And how has that trended over time? And what is it today?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well. I knew what this meant. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. We talked with lawyers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well. I knew what this meant. Good news always comes quickly, bad news takes time to simmer. We talked with lawyers.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. There are merger discussions, board debates, product miscues, revenue misses and a litany of delicate topics. Would now be a good time to buy a house? I’d need a letter from you to help with my loan.” ” “Buy a house?

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I’ve gotten to know Marc Randolph as a fellow board member at Looker. Marc founded the business and served as its first CEO until Reed Hastings took the helm in 2003. Marc has helped many companies get off the ground, but the most famous is Netflix.

culture 87

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. Given that it was a public tender the chairman of our board had encouraged us to think about launching a complaint with the UK government agency in charge of such reviews. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One famous example was the campaign US launched against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in 2003. But the CEO’s poor decision to reduce its company board became the cause of Swissair’s collapse, losing the competent industry expertise that came with the board.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2016

We couldn’t imagine a world in which we had kids and then in just one day — April 29th 2003 — we couldn’t imagine a world in which we didn’t. We’ve taken so many road trips and vacations together, tried new hobbies from surfing to paddle boarding to seeing Broadway shows or learning about new cultures.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. I started my second company while retaining a board seat at my first company. I planned a half marathon, which I crushed in a personal best 1:42. But the story doesn’t end there.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? They often don’t have board seats attached to them. Convertible Notes Also Can Have Multiple Liquidation Preferences. Are there any other things I should worry about in a convertible note? I mean, I had no idea that they had full ratchets.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. In order to get a VC to agree to fund you, you need to get the entire partnership on board. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 24, 2022

With the typical “gusto” of an entrepreneur, Vladimir assumed “there had to be a better way” and in 2003 he set out to find a solution to provide a better and a great variety of folders to business owners. Vladimir’s early sales came from him participating in online discussion boards and going door to door.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Ramon Ray, Smart Hustle: But I bet on your white board, even though you don’t fund startups, on the white board, I’m guessing, my words, not yours.

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