Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

But back to the blockbuster – Fred’s emphatic response that founders have a responsibility to go public and that liquidity is good for all stakeholder (employees, investors & the company). Just look at our rebound from the financial crisis of 2008 as something that I feel proud of as an American. Worst system.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. This is one book-end of the cycle. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Bu when you start to worry that the world is ending (as it seemed it was in late 2008 / early 2009) you tend to get worried about large burn rates. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. The company had a huge burn rate but investors and management brought that under control by late 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That was written in September 2008. If you really want to understand investment psychology & economics you really need to read the seminal book The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. It is one of the two most influential books on my thinking about investments. Many founders don’t understand why inside rounds are so difficult.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Consider: When GOAT started it was a restaurant reservation booking app called GrubWithUs … it’s now worth $3.7 They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn estimates that Duolingo’s upcoming product developments will get users from zero to a knowledge job in a different language within the next two to three years. “I Duolingo has been wildly successful. That’s not true.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s famous book of the same name is a great intro to the subject. I joined EO in 2008 and learned about flow in 2013 on kite surfing trip to Maui. Imagine if you could be in flow all the time? You can, and a great way to up your flow quotient is to make it part of your EO experience.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Also, Ehab Bandar, founder at design consultancy Bigtable.co, told TechCrunch back in September that “designers, and especially cross-functional teams, hate to switch software. Think 150 of the brightest VC and founder minds in the space coming together within walking distance of Dumpling Home. Book your pass ASAP!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

After listening to others pitch me a few different job opportunities while still at Google in 2008, it became clear to me that I would make a better decision if I could fully explore the larger landscape of new companies emerging in Silicon Valley. More posts by this contributor. Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

But if they witness any of these climate risks during the season, they would want to get insurance, which is counterproductive to Pula,” said the founder in a phone call. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Pula co-founders and Co-CEOs (Rose Goslinga and Thomas Njeru).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

For many first-time founders in fundraising mode, the current market correction for publicly-traded tech companies has been similarly jarring. ” Conditions change, and so do investor expectations, which means founders should reframe their thinking about acceptable entry valuations and revisit their spending plans. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Startup founders from all over the world applied to what has been described as the most competitive batch in TechCrunch history. Alexa von Tobel , the co-founder and managing partner of Inspired Capital, can likely relate to the startup founders on the TechCrunch stage.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch Allen, an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in Fort Worth, is founder and Head Elf of Hire Santa , a service that brings the season to life with thousands of professionally trained Santas worldwide. About 40,000 people apply each season; 100 actually make it on air. EO member Mitch Allen is one of them!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 13, 2019

By Manny Padda, the founder of New Avenue Capital and an EO Vancouver member. This level of commitment is especially powerful when leaders are navigating situations outside of their control, like when former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tearfully apologized to the company after laying off 12,000 workers at the height of the 2008 recession.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 21, 2022

market size & growth, competitive moat, founder-product fit?—?pointed As part of a Coursera course on entrepreneurship that I helped put together, I came across an interview with Andy Rackleff, the founder of the VC firm Benchmark Capital and the robo advisor Wealthfront. A new kind of visual entertainment company (i.e.,

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Airbnb was founded by Joe Gebbia and Brian Chesky in 2008. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Is the founder coachable? The valuation method described herein was also detailed in my book, the Definitive Guide to Raising Money from Angels (2006, available on Gust). The Ohio TechAngels adapted this valuation methodology in 2008 to meet their needs and named it the Bill Payne Method. Experience in sales or technology.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Alex Wilhelm hears from one startup founder who has taken a bit of an alternative approach to building a SaaS company. Chatting with CEO and co-founder Tomas Gorny, I got to dig a little under the skin of the company’s history. How to bootstrap to $200m+ in revenue. How did it all happen? Around TechCrunch.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I’m a co-founder of a company in the ultra-competitive online education market, with more than 2.5 Nowadays, we try to solve problems by negotiating; many books and experts still compare business to war. For instance, in 2008, UPS agreed to ship DHL’s packages (because DHL couldn’t do it at the time and asked a competitor for help).

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StartupNation

MAY 17, 2021

The following is excerpted from “SUPER FOUNDERS: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups” by Ali Tamaseb. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Timing is one of the key ways founders explain their success or failure. For founders, being ahead of time is essentially picking the wrong idea.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2020

I received a torrent of suggestions for books and decided to share them with everyone, in case you’re interested in the subject. I’m going to be working my way through them and just started the book on Keynes. Ray Dalio’s The Changing World Order books & LinkedIn posts : This was by far the most suggested work.

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Y Combinator

JULY 24, 2020

The most common example of this phenomenon is in the books category. The growth of Amazon/e-commerce resulted in the bankruptcy of Borders in 2011 and caused Barnes & Noble to reduce its footprint from 726 stores at its peak in 2008 to 630 in 2018 5. US Census Bureau; SUSB Data Tables and Nonemployer statistics. Raffaelli, Ryan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. I recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay. In the book they profile how VC worked in the early days (60s / 70s). Few people have it. They finally quit. It was May.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Louis Borders of Borders Books is launching a company by the name of Web Van. We actually did $53M in revenue in the first year.

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Ian Hathaway

OCTOBER 30, 2019

This morning a friend reminds of a Paul Graham article from 2008 titled Cities and Ambition. For those of you who don’t know, Paul is the outspoken founder of Y Combinator —a prominent early-stage startup investor in Silicon Valley. You really should get around to reading all those books you've been meaning to. It’s excellent.

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Reforge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. While experienced entrepreneurs have largely moved beyond the Lean Startup methodology, first-time founders still use it as their primary playbook. About the Author Sachin Rekhi Sachin Rekhi is the Founder & CEO of Notejoy.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 47:40 – What’s a must read book and why? Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho. I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. It’s not just us, this is 2008 to 2012.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

You can also follow the co-founders Ryan Sean Adams ( @RyanSAdams ) & David Hoffman ( @TrustlessState ). He’s trusted enough among founders and crypto enthusiasts that he was even roped into acting as the escrow account for $22M in bets between Do Kwon & some critics. Ryan Selkis ( @twobitidiot ) : one of the longest tenured?—?and

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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. Had we waited for an outside bookkeeper to finish doing the books to know where we stood each month, we might not be here today. Founders bear the weight of the success of the organization and the livelihood of employees.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. I wanted to ask you, why did you decide to write the book? around the book. This is different, right?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

ET, M13 managing partner Karl Alomar is joining senior editor Walter Thompson on a Twitter Space to share tactics and strategies for founders who plan to fundraise during this downturn. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc. The future has arrived.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

They’re not buying a book on Amazon or shoes on Zappos. 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. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular. Meet in person. Conclusion.

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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.” Ryan Unger (RU) / “It was 2008, and Zak and I were still building our business from the ground up. WHAT VALUE DID THESE PROGRAMS PROVIDE?

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

To learn more about the underlying market forces and hurdles facing entrepreneurs and investors in this maverick industry, she spoke to four investors: Jacqueline Bennett, managing partner and co-founder, Highlands Venture Partners. Matt Hawkins, managing partner and co-founder, Entourage Effect Capital.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The VC and founder winners in Airbnb’s IPO (EC). “All told, we’re seeing some familiar names in the mix, but 2020 isn’t 2008,” Taylor Hatmaker explains about potential presidential appointments from the industry. Against all odds: The sheer force of immigrant startup founders. Airbnb files to go public. TechCrunch.

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