Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. Would you choose someone with great skills but not a cultural fit? We both agreed that, with all things being equal, cultural match is must. You may hire a superstar, but if they are not a cultural fit then s/he can become very disruptive to the team.

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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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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

We funded one in 2005 and lost a lot of money. It is because when you share too much of this information with staff you develop an “options culture” the I find unhealthy. Call me when you’re ready to leave.” ” Now they have a deep sigh when they hear what you’re actually working on. Sorry, brah.”

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 9, 2012

There were 30 of us the first time I went back in 2005. I don't think we'd have the same meetup culture here had anyone else kicked things off. It wasn't always like that, though. The NY Tech Meetup, for example, used to meet in the back conference room of Meetup's NYC offices.

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 27, 2024

“By supporting this vibrant assortment of businesses, we are not only enhancing the economic vitality of our city but also creating spaces that reflect the rich culture and community spirit of Newark.” Michele Harriott, an experienced baker and Victor Joseph Soldano, it will be the first brick-and-mortar location.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 19, 2021

How will this affect our team and culture? . In 2000, I started writing educational skincare content, which led to the creation of my popular skincare blog in 2005. How will it affect our core business and focus? Will this opportunity make us better? Is this where it makes sense to put time and energy? Lastly, WHY? .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The company is a role model and innovator in this area: It has been entirely remote since 2005, and at 1,700 employees, it has helped prove that a remote workplace culture can succeed at scale. It’s impossible to talk about Automattic without talking about remote work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

This produces a whole host of problems from overspending on attempts to centralize data to damaging the entire company culture around data. In 2005, he helped to launch the startup Bazaarvoice, which provides data about retail customers’ shopping habits. . ” Making data actionable. ” Beyond the usual suspects (e.g.,

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2005 / Ask your employees for feedback. What would our culture look like? One of the great thought leaders on culture-powered businesses, Paul Spiegelman, nudged me to tell this story on a pretty big platform. I confess that wasn’t always the case. . Our offering? How many employees would we have? What would our jobs look like?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. Stefan van Duin , partner, Borski Fund. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2 billion (£7 billion), came from Jerusalem.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 30, 2020

Bike Bridge is an organization that works towards “ bridging social and cultural gaps through cycling.” Boxgirls Berlin has supported the sporting and social engagement of women and girls since 2005, doing so through power, endurance and boxing training for girls, with certified trainers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To understand the persistent “localness” of money, it helps to look at the underlying cultural, infrastructural, and regulatory drivers of monetary policy. has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. Why has this been an intractable issue for so long? Today, U.K.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I still drive the same car I bought for cash in 2005. In LA we have a culture where people drive fancy cars but live in small apartments and where credit card balances are larger than bank balances. And neither of these cultures is a good thing. **. I asked him what percentage of cars on his lot were done as leases.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

When I first arrived in New York City in 2005, I was 21 years old. I had no idea of the painful and inescapable challenges I would face; language barriers, culture shock, and lack of proper documentation to name a few. By Saloua Ibaline, business strategist, author and digital marketing coach. I was dedicated to success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

S3 Ventures founder and managing director Brian Smith notes that when he started the firm in 2005, venture capital in Texas was finally starting to recover from the dot.com bust. Having said that, there are also many commonalities between the two — culturally and aesthetically. All that was needed was more capital to support it.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

You need to get straight to the beating heart of the business, understand the culture, involve the right people — and be comfortable telling founders and exec teams things they don’t always want to hear. It was post-IPO hypergrowth, but the EMEA and emerging markets I contributed to were like regional startups within a scaleup.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

The most notorious example of such strategies was Antioco’s decision to eliminate late fees in 2005. Overwhelming success in its early years created unwarranted contentment that became permanently embedded in its culture. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” Blockbuster was the embodiment of this characterization.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

I started my first company when I was 23; a real estate company in Phoenix, AZ in 2005. We represent our brands’ identity; protecting their cultural values while using our local market competence to build brand awareness. Thank you so much for joining us! What motivated you to launch your startup?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Visiting the campus for the first time in 2005, I felt different than any other workplace I had been to. Digging past the business revealed a wonderful culture. Some of our past bets have gone extraordinarily well, and others have not. So much excitement and ambition. in 2004, the year of their IPO. But, I think that’s a mistake.

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Angel Capital Association

JULY 13, 2020

CEVG and E8 have collaborative cultures and are of course open to collaboration and syndication with groups located in other regions. By collaborating more closely, E8 and CEVG can take advantage of a broader combined network across the country, to the benefit of each group and to the benefit of entrepreneurs supported by each group.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. It makes a lot of sense that you talk about even cultural differences in the way that people work or the way that people communicate, running a global company as you did, I’m sure you saw that. ” There’s a quick guide to Stripes culture that you can find on our job site.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I remember joining Google in 2005. Manager guides worked particularly well across regions and across cultures as a way of building rapport quickly during high growth. A few weeks ago, Office Hours at Redpoint welcomed Claire Hughes-Johnson, former COO at Stripe and VP at Google. Claire replicated it at Stripe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Founded in 2005, the company continues to assiduously evolve and expand as it staves off that ambient and inclement sense of doom that pervades media. Sixteen years in and now valued at $7.5

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The population is now approaching 20% of the US population, 40% of California, 40% of Texas, 25% of Florida, 20% of New York … this is a multi-cultural country already whether Trump’s base likes it or not. 30% of all real income growth in 2005–2015 was from Latinos (U.S. Latino purchasing power will reach $1.7 trillion in 2020 (U.S.

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Derek Sivers

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Back in 2005, a mutual friend said Jac wanted to meet me, so we set a lunch date a couple weeks in advance, because I wanted to read his autobiography first. The book is called “ Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture.” I was deep in the middle of running CD Baby.

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WSJ - The Accelerators

JUNE 22, 2015

Search interest for “ standing desk ” has been steadily rising since 2005 — a great sign. What should I sell? My first stop was Google Trends , which shows the volume of searches for particular keywords over time. I could also see where people were searching for standing desks, mainly in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. government essentially shut them down in 2005, he said. Whurley’s success has tracked with Austin’s success. He returned to Austin to launch a cybersecurity startup, Symbiot. But the U.S.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

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. Additionally, our expertise extends to the nuances of tech teams and startup culture. David Teten: What’s your background?

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