2005 advice disruption 
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NOVEMBER 4, 2012
I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. 46:00 Do you believe that most of the disruption over the last few years has some from Elon Musk and Sebastian Thrun? I remember this lesson well. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure.
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MAY 5, 2011
I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. No Dave S. =
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators. Total disruption on the funding market?
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JUNE 22, 2011
To anybody who asks my advice I repeat the same line, “I don’t know whether this party will last 6 weeks, 6 months or 18 months. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. source: Capital IQ. But it will end.
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AUGUST 9, 2011
I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. I have always believed that TV was ripe for disruption. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. He pinged me for advice. tl;dr summary.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
I first met Ethan in 2005. He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad. The company was called Red Beacon.
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011
In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high.
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