Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I hold true to form and follow my own advice. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. Wendy Tan White, the founder of Moonfruit. And a motley crew of other interesting startup founders. Yes, this is what I look like at 2am.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And my specialty was computer networks. At the end of ’94, most of my friends quit to join startups, and that’s when startups were really starting to become a bigger deal. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And the first thing we did is we called up startup founders in our network. And so if you can actually master the motion for the technology startup, what you know is that you can cover a wide range of scenarios. Seema : Would love to just touch on advice or things you’ve done differently. Oh, nothing.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

Meesho is a platform in India that allows people to resell products using their social networks. 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Vidit is co-founder and CEO of Meesho.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. So the startup work moves to where the startup founders live and not vice versa. If that isn’t the original definition of “angel” money I don’t know what is.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. Raising money is hard. Of course much of it is conflicting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I see it first hand in Los Angeles where given the growth of YouTube networks the worlds of art & technology are colliding. In driving down the costs of building businesses it’s driving down the age of startup founders and thus they’re starting companies where young people want to live – in urban environments.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. But this coming generation is much more likely to be inspired by The Social Network and want to be entrepreneurs.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

[note, for a variety of reasons I told Mike that I thought it was a positive for him] MM: I was very excited by your advice on this topic. As a startup founder, you get into this default mode of moving really fast all the time and making quick decisions. And that was definitely who I was during the Anchor days.

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