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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. Fast forward to my second company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Back in 2005, in the early days of this blog, I wrote this post on the topic. link] — Dan Primack (@danprimack) February 25, 2023 I DM’d Dan to let him know that is not the right way to think about the venture capital business. The entrepreneur is the customer and the LP is the shareholder.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. After a recent discussion I had with Steve Blank it made me remember that I had left off one of the most critical factors – a culture of failure. I remember this lesson well.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

I was one of the first 100 members, dating back to February 2005. I’m just as familiar with the New York Tech Meetup as anyone. I was also part of the original New York Tech Meetup board and participated on it until last year. I offered to step aside to bring a few more faces onto the board last year.

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JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. RockYou (US) was founded in Redwood City in November 2005 by Lance Tokuda and Jia Shen. Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. Twenty years ago, I got my first job. I started working in 1995 at the age of 15 in the mailroom at Waterhouse Securities (which became TD Waterhouse) at 100 Wall Street.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

I don''t remember when I started talking to Rob, but I know it was before February of 2005, because I found "rob@businesspundit.com" in the contacts I ported over when I left GM and went to USV. It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2021

Since 2005, she always had a role in shaping EO: as a local board member, an area director, a committee member and a facilitator. One of our key differentiators is having all Canada Bridge members play an active role in EO leadership. The more we involve ourselves in EO, the more gratifying the membership experience becomes.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 14, 2025

Chegg: A Legacy of Supporting Students Chegg was founded in 2005 by Aayush Phumbhra, Osman Rashid, and Josh Carlson with the mission of making higher education more affordable and accessible for students.

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MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! It seems more likely that a guy who has made a career of "going big" came up with the idea of taking over the world there than a college kid who had previously built a music app and flipped it.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We met back in 2005 through our respective blogs—he was writing at Businesspundit at the time. This shouldn't have been more than a few clicks away from being a non-issue, but no one was working on a “cloud to cloud” solution. I sent out a Twitter distress signal and my friend Rob May came to the rescue.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 14, 2022

David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College, 2005. In 2005, the famous American author and professor gave a speech entitled “This Is Water,” that has since become legendary. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. It’s an epidemic.”. Watch | Transcript. Volunteer some hours. Focus on something outside yourself. Watch | Transcript.

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MAY 5, 2023

To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Back in 2005 Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Blink that was about how our subconscious allows us to make fast decisions that are often as good or better than slow considered decisions.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

It feels a lot like NYC as a whole did back in 2005--a handful of relatively disconnected folks, a few marquee companies and a whole lot of pent up interest in doing something impactful in the local community. Android Backlash.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I first started my meditation practice back in 2005. Sitting alone in silence probably sounds like the worst way for a busy business entrepreneur to spend their precious time. However, this small time investment has paid me back in ways I never could’ve imagined. Becoming a Mindful Leader. The company was thriving.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. How did the Introduction of YouTube affect your business? It changed everything. JibJab has an ad model that relied on exclusive distribution deals with the big portals.

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Or again here in Consumer Affairs dating back to 2005. Many of these complaints stem from the charges individuals found on their credit card statements.&# Background. I was home visiting my father in Sacramento.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. You can’t mistake that for being the one who wins the poker tournament or even comes home with more money than you brought to the game. The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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APRIL 20, 2011

Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Prior to First Round Capital, Howard had invested in two of Josh’s companies Infonautics Corp. and Half.com. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sang Han has extensive experience in venture capital, having started in 2005 as an assistant vice president at Walden International for Singapore and Beijing. East Ventures Korea has appointed Sang Han as its first partner for the South Korea fund, which was launched in October in collaboration with SV Investment, a Seoul-based VC firm.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

It’s a chess server, forum and networking site that launched in 2005, with premium subscription that ranges between $5 a month or $29 a year. He retired from public chess in 2005, and has since launched a foundation to help children have access to chess worldwide. The product will be available to the public by the end of month.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

.’s annual GrowCo conference on Wednesday, the entrepreneur, investor, and Internet advocate divulged the most valuable lessons he’s learned since he launched the hugely popular website in 2005. –before coming back to lead Reddit. . Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt.

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JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. He knows every startup & VC in town.” ” He was generous with his time with me and helpful. He was a mensch.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

He turned me down for a job in 2005. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. Actually, longer than anybody else in the US I’ve hoped to work with. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. I spent time today negotiating it with him and getting my partners bought into some changes.

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APRIL 2, 2010

If a VC fund you’re talking to raised a fund in 2005 or early and hasn’t yet raised a new fund they certainly will be thinking about it and trying to figure out how and when to raise a fund. I know many great funds that haven’t yet raised their new fund but may still get there. GRP’s last fund was in 2000.

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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2024

Founded in 2005 by a renowned coalition of innovators, including Dr. Finian Tan, Dr. Khalil Binebine, Dr. Jeffrey Chi, Dr. Damian Tan, Linda Li, and Raymond Kong, Vickers Venture Partners has firmly established its presence and influence in the global venture capital space.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. But if 2011 & 2012 look more like 2008-2009 than 2010 or 2005-2007 then one of the most important skills of angel investors will be whether they can get their companies financed (or ramen profitable, but this is harder to sustain over a long period of time).

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AUGUST 3, 2009

And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007. I’m enjoying the creative process of getting my own personal thoughts down in writing. Thank you, Twitter.

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MAY 15, 2010

Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. Criteo – Provider of online ad retargeting services and personalized recommendation service. Leverages persistent cookie to follow a user and display recurring display advertising that matches a previous transaction intent or behavior.

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APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I 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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As I’ve highlighted I believe we’re in a unique period similar to 2005-08 where the biggest tech firms of Silicon Valley (and some media companies) are scooping up small software companies as “talent acquisitions&# versus accretive revenue / profit generators.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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