David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

R136 Ventures partners with creative entrepreneurs to help scale their mid-to-late stage startups. Between 2001 and 2005, I worked on a pioneering mobile banking platform for a young bank, that became the de-facto best-in-class standard among banks in Central and Eastern Europe, well before the iPhone era.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . Kedma talked about a common occurrence among entrepreneurs: being control freaks. What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. All you need to do now is . fill out the right business forms, . draft role descriptions, . Preparing to Hire.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

” Blockbuster was built by one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history, Wayne Huizenga. Overwhelming success in its early years created unwarranted contentment that became permanently embedded in its culture. The following is adapted from the book “ Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster’s Inevitable Bust.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. He joined EO in 2015.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If coming on as Overlooked’s first institutional investor.

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It’s a romanticized trope that startup culture loves to spread far and wide: Look at Amazon! As entrepreneurs, we can’t do it alone. In the last quarter of 2001, Amazon finally turned its first profit. A lot of entrepreneurs I see will give up in less than 7 months if they don’t see a profit. The last part is true.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages. and yet so familiar to every contemporary entrepreneur. A VC treating an entrepreneur that way today wouldn’t stay in business for long… 7.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In other news: Extra Crunch Live, a series of interviews with leading investors and entrepreneurs, returns next month with a full slate of guests. In the United Kingdom and Europe, government innovation programs have helped entrepreneurs close higher numbers of Series A and B rounds. Image Credits: Acquia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In Austin’s tech world, there’s an entrepreneur everyone knows by one name: Whurley. “Whurley” is the Unix username for serial tech entrepreneur Will Hurley, and it’s his brand. Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2019

I saw the power of a good, positive culture: the value of an inclusive, supportive culture within the organization, and even within the Global Board. Culture truly trumps strategy every day. The post My Journey as EO Global Chair appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. This was the moment where Zuckerberg (20 something entrepreneur) schooled Rupert Murdoch. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. Stackoverflow was created in 2008.

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