This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

At the height of its growth in 2005, the company underwent some changes. The post How to leverage organizational storytelling in shaping culture appeared first on THE BLOG. When trying to affect change, language and positioning matter quite a bit. Never waste a good story by choosing the wrong words.

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MARCH 19, 2021

on Monday, August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. The post One Year Later: 10 Steps to Effective Coronavirus Crisis Leadership appeared first on THE BLOG. The coronavirus crisis is happening now, but it will certainly not be the last challenge we face. We must be ready. We must be prepared. We must lead.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. A P2 post looks more or less like a blog post, with threaded discussions, the ability to follow replies and a Like button.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

You opened Urban Betty in 2005 and it’s been growing ever since. The post Salon Owner Chelle Neff Talks Scaling, Sustainability and Success appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. 5000 list twice! . What drives you?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2019

A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008. The post Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All appeared first on THE BLOG.

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APRIL 5, 2010

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation! Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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EntreWorks Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In fact, only five metro areas account for 90% of America’s innovation sector growth since 2005. EntreWorks Blog. The report and its recommendations build on the uncomfortable fact that America’s innovation and technology economy is highly concentrated, with most activity centered in a few states and metro areas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

For example, Bigfoot Capital open-sourced its RBI model, outlining it in a blog post and sharing their RBI financial model and anonymized term sheet , but a thorough, quantitative, industry-wide analysis has not been conducted until now. Thankfully, there have been some notable efforts to drive transparency in the RBI market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. It was very widely read. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. Startup-focused.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2020

And, their recent growth rates—up 47% since 2005—is pretty impressive too. EntreWorks Blog. Specifically, it reviews the latest numbers on home-based workers, and shows that, nationally, about 5.3% of Americans currently work from home. This may not sound like a big number, but it accounts for 8.2 million people.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005. of MySpace, Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You’re writing a freaking blog post! He turned me down for a job in 2005. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog. I know many people think I blog all day long. So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be?

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). When Y Combinator launched in 2005, starting a startup was an unusual career path for recent graduates.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. The post 25 Lessons In 25 Years: Tips for Success from a Self-Made Beauty Entrepreneur appeared first on THE BLOG. So, in 1999, I devoted my resources towards building an e-commerce site.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

Jill shared lessons learned and more in a blog post to mark the occasion. 2005 / Ask your employees for feedback. The post Lessons Learned After 15 Years in Business appeared first on THE BLOG. Jill Nelson is the founder and CEO of Ruby ® Receptionists , which recently reached its 15-year anniversary.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. 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. Profitability.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. … should I avoid blog posts like this that might be outside my normal remit? Many of these complaints stem from the charges individuals found on their credit card statements.&# Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento. What do you think?

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005. Acqui-hiring is simply a strategy that assists the growth of the company with the expertise of recruited employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. If you’re the sucker at the table – others will smell it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Back in 2005, in the early days of this blog, I wrote this post on the topic. [link] — Dan Primack (@danprimack) February 25, 2023 I DM’d Dan to let him know that is not the right way to think about the venture capital business. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). To get a sense of how many startups were in the world, look at TechCrunch in 2005.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) I signed up for Facebook before many – in 2005 – when I first moved back to the US.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. After a month of launch Meebo was getting 50k logins a day. Seth raised $100k in angel funding to fuel operations.

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JULY 25, 2011

I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. Even so, I found myself reading Feld.com every day. I read every post several times. It is also a must read.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2017

According to a litigation impact study published by the Small Business Administration in 2005, a small business lawsuit might cost anywhere from $3,000 to $150,000. The post 5 Insurance Policies That Help Your Startup Grow appeared first on THE BLOG. Making a professional error. Offering negligent services.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 20, 2012

I already believed in small, private groups going back to my observation of LiveJournal--where people's blogs were read by 5 people and mostly kept private. When I heard that 10,000 people had signed up, I was stunned that 10,000 people had figured out (in 2005) how to drag the tagging button up to the bookmarks bar.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Launched by startup SmartLabs in 2005, Insteon at one point had an agreement with Microsoft to sell its kits at Microsoft Store locations and was one of the two launch partners for Apple’s HomeKit platform, with the HomeKit-enabled Insteon Hub Pro. “Our product did not monetize, and it took too long to figure that out.”

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. Not only did users start signing up for backup of the hosted photo services they were using, but they started requesting additional services as well—Google Docs, Basecamp, blogs, even their web e-mail.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

People had been steadily blogging for 2-3 years and this crowd seemed to bifurcate. On the one hand were the blogs that “blew up&# and became real businesses like TechCrunch, GigaOm or TalkingPointsMemo. So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. started blogging again outlined here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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MAY 5, 2011

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. No Dave S. = It’s important.

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