Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Delaying going out of business gives you way more chances at product / market fit than any other strategy I know of. Fair point.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. Shelley Rogers is a business coach, mentor and founder of Maxum , which empowers entrepreneurs to reach their maximum capacity.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tatiana, current Co-Founder and Director of Impact Hub Amsterdam, takes over from Gabriela Gandel, who led the network for the past 10 years. Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). How do you do that personally?

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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 strategy of 2008 serves as a pivotal lesson of our 15-year life.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 9, 2018

It seems reasonable to assume that USV’s investment strategy (i.e., Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” He points out that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have virtually identical strategies. – Thoughtful fund management. – Incubating companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

Squarespace founder & CEO Anthony Casalena said the fresh capital will advance the company’s growth initiatives and help it scale its product suite. Squarespace, which has helped millions create their own websites, was founded in 2003 and bootstrapped until a $38.5 Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Spruce House.

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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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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

We are soon launching Founders’ Next Move , a selective, free community for founders researching their next move, which will be a key tool for working with outside talent. Ten Networking Strategies to a Seat on the Board. This strategy is even more prevalent in larger deals. At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg at TechCrunch Disrupt 2014. Automattic’s founder, Matt Mullenweg, was barely of American legal drinking age (21) when he began building, at a time when venture capitalists wanted “adult supervision” at their companies. billion valuation. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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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. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc., of MySpace, Inc.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

The first is Momentum Investing , “a strategy to capitalize on the continuance of an existing market trend”, which usually meaning that the price has been rising in the recent past. Christian Mundigo, Founder, Ackert Hook Holdings , observes that it’s easy to get positive (or negative) feedback when making a Momentum investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2021

Mayfield partner Navin Chaddha and Poshmark founder and CEO Manish Chandra met all the way back in 2003, well before Poshmark was even a glimmer in his eye. “We still to this day use a similar kind of strategy in a much more compressed timeframe as we go to different countries,” said Chandra.

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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. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Always be fund raising.

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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. 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. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed.

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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. 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. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. To offset the mostly one-time payment from customers, Tableau employs a land-and-expand strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I ran a marathon with my colleague in 2003 – I’m still bummed that he beat me even though he was clearly more athletic. She brought her key team members and emphasized why their strategy was so much better than Company A and other players in the market. If you’re way better than me, I’m probably not playing.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Startups and founders need to come to terms with the stark reality that the rules of the game may be changed mid-play. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry.

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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. In the corporate world this strategy is flawed. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As an enthusiastic EO DC member since 2003, I missed the camaraderie, connections and learning events with my EO family after moving to Virginia. Here are nine strategies I learned that may prove helpful if you’re considering starting an EO chapter. Hire a strong chapter manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. Ryan is now in his 30’s (old fart).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. Marc El Khoury, the co-founder and CEO of Aifleet, said he was drawn to Ibex, in part, because of the company’s limited partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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