Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Founder, and former President and CEO. 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?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It helps that Maisonette’s founders have an eye for what’s chic. 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.

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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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill Nelson is the founder and CEO of Ruby ® Receptionists , which recently reached its 15-year anniversary. 2003 / Great service really does win business. Founders bear the weight of the success of the organization and the livelihood of employees. The organization serve as an informal business advisory board.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Let’s say a founder comes in and they want to build an AI company to automate a bunch of stuff. 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?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. 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. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit. I knew what this meant.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. 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. 15 companies North of $1 billion exit. I knew what this meant.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? They often don’t have board seats attached to them.

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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. CEO transitions can be very difficult times in a company’s life and in a CEO/founder’s life. And I’m worried.

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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. As the founder & CEO I personally went and met with as many people at Thames Water as I could. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. But first I’d like to start with a story. We talked with lawyers.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, entrepreneur and founder of SmartHustle.com, had a discussion with Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox all about this and more. 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. Fundbox helps with this.

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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. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. In order to get a VC to agree to fund you, you need to get the entire partnership on board.

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