Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

Make them widely available inside the company and share your most important goals with your board. I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Then they come to us, we invest in them, and I join the board. The second is a little more subtle, which is that the behavior developed around these things is iterative. As a result, you can do things where correctness is important, like developing code because it’s iterative. I remember when I joined Ph.D.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. There are merger discussions, board debates, product miscues, revenue misses and a litany of delicate topics.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. And they are normal, down-to-earth people as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. They were looking for a collaboration tool to manage all of their large water development projects. But first I’d like to start with a story. I had been competing to win a contract at Thames Water, the largest water company in the UK.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Janis Irving, the psychologist who developed a comprehensive theory about groupthink , cited eight symptoms of this phenomenon. One famous example was the campaign US launched against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in 2003. The company believed that it was invulnerable and that its morality was superior.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. We set up a development center in India and I had to be there for three weeks to tour all of the prospective cities. I planned a half marathon, which I crushed in a personal best 1:42.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

They are either a sign of naive founders or naive investors (because they will quickly develop a reputation in the market and because future investors in that company will all demand your terms, which therefore will include a full ratchet). I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? I mean, I had no idea that they had full ratchets.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Developer / Programmer 101. All of you are developers and programmers, but maybe is there kind of specialties in these areas, or no? Ramon Ray, Smart Hustle: Sure.

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