Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hecken: “EMP provided some of the best speakers, tailored to entrepreneurs’ most pressing challenges, who provided concrete, actionable insights and advice which we could implement in our companies immediately. ” Michele Hecken is an EO Edmonton member who joined the organization in 2006.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. I do think it’s important.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures. More overlooked founders than opportunities. million in the third quarter, more than double the $252.4

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.” Investors say they want to add value, but for founders under pressure, it’s hard to know exactly when to ask for help. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

For EO Chicago’s Zak Dabbas and Ryan Unger , co-founders of Punchkick Interactive, a mobile app and web development agency, the secret to their sustainability comes from “going flat.” In 2006, we officially launched Punchkick Interactive. ZD / “The advice channel is the single biggest component to going flat at Punchkick.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

My thesis was: I’d get to brainstorm and strategize with the founders, but then I’d get to hand their baby back to them and go back to my (so called) life. I’m not going to meet with founders or have phone calls with them. Always side with the founders. I then wrote a seed round investment check of $500,000 to HubSpot.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

The founders in this piece all faced these challenges before launching startups that earned them millionaire status. Whitney Wolfe, founder of the female-empowered dating app Bumble , stays on track by asking herself the question of nine. In 2006, Google had the opportunity to buy YouTube. And, above all else, you can’t give up.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2018

Fellow Forum members don’t give advice; they speak from prior experience, letting you draw your own conclusions on how to best proceed. Dave Bacon is the founder of the BW Bacon Group and an EO member in Colorado. . That was in 2006. As part of his Forum accountability goals, Dave Bacon committed to lead a charity climb up Mt.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. some founders lose their life savings.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

ABOUT MY FIRST 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Founder Collective – If you were an early-stage startup and wanted to be funded by entrepreneurs who had walked in your shoes before, you wouldn’t have to stretch the imagination far to think of what “Founder Collective” is meant to stand for. I know that I call them often to co-invest. I had run 2 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006. The other notable think about Product Hunt is just how universally liked the founder & CEO Ryan Hoover is. Ryan talked about his transition from product manager to CEO and offers advice [1 minute]. Product Hunt.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

In 2006, our group published a high-profile paper in Science on the concept of water filtration with nanotubes. The market potential, business model, and technology sounded compelling enough that I joined them as a third co-founder later that year. But what inevitably happens is they end up relying on investors for strategic advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! With First Round Capital, Sequoia and Founders Fund obviously a lot of respected investors think highly of its potential. So eventually the money has to start flowing. Seems an obvious fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. It’s that simple. I believe this is wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. 2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. One very important item from Chris’s original post that wasn’t picked up by Fred or Brad is founder vesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., Is that when it became big? Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. was starting.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. Kevin’s a partner at YC and co-founder of Wufoo. Brian’s the CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. My co-founder uses it even more than I do. 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. I had champagne in the private wine cellar of Bernard Arnault (the owner of LVMH, which in turn owns Dom Perignon). I was on CNN, who taped live from the event.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Howard Lindzon weighed in with his comments : “As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing… Thick Skin. I have been involved as an investor in many CEO / founder disputes including many that are not in my portfolio. Tags: Startup Advice. Sometimes this is heat.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Make yourself available. It is an important part of your job.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Take Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo! Back in 2006 Facebook made a conscious decision to encourage the platform ecosystem even if it meant creating large businesses like Zynga (Slide & RockYou were the initial big players) that could make a lot of money off of Facebook. I never worked at Yahoo! and I only met Jerry once.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. Juniper and countless others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

. $5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Swipely – Blippy competitor founded by TellMe founder, Angus Davis, in Fall 2009. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. I was resolute. Any deal – ANY DEAL – that was pre 9/11 was suddenly in question.

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

Craig Cannon [00:00:40] – Matt Hackett, who is Casey Neistat’s co-founder. Craig Cannon [00:09:18] – I thought that was actually a really nice piece of advice that you gave because you interviewed at Yelp twice. I was first drawn to you because you were posting these software videos. It really only takes one.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the co-founder and CEO of Klarna — the Swedish fintech “buy now, pay later” sensation that is currently Europe’s most valuable private tech company — is dismissive of the suggestion that non U.S. “We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Siemiatkowski left undeterred.

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