Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I first met Ethan in 2005. And because I wanted Ethan to be able to attract a great team, build & iterate a product, test it with initial customers and refine his strategy before having to take the wrappers off of his company. I was preparing to move back to the US from London after 11 years abroad.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites. He meets with each board member one-on-one before board meetings – a sort of personal strategy & sparring session. For Meebo 1.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Exactly the opposite of what a rational investment strategy would advise. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe. In a booming market your investment is worth more than you paid almost instantly.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. . “IMVU operates one of the world’s oldest, yet most vibrant and young — in terms of our user base — metaverses.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 31, 2021

At the height of its growth in 2005, the company underwent some changes. Does it share an organizational strategy or information about the culture that would be of interest to employees? Is it a teachable moment with a lesson learned? Is it memorable?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

There was a meme that started going around LPs around 2005 that “I’m not sure LA is really its own venture market” and some LPs actually believed that. So we did the opposite and leaned into it adopting the “Why Buy Me” strategy of seeking people out who either understood the power of LA or were persuadable.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Never missing an opportunity for a good war story, I’d like to revisit one high-profile transaction, the $650 million acquisition of MySpace by Fox Interactive Media in 2005, on which I spent many sleepless nights along with the rest of the deal team. The spin-out took a few months to negotiate and didn’t actually close until February 2005.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Armstrong, who serves as Tomo’s chief revenue officer, previously led business strategy, product strategy and core operations for Zillow’s $1 billion buyer services business. . Flint co- founded another online real estate giant, Trulia and was its CEO and chairman from its 2005 inception until it was acquired by Zillow for $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

“Taking in some smart equity or convertible debt and balancing that money with other financing can be a good strategy for a startup,” she said. Clearly, there has been a major uptick in RBI firms being founded since 2005, with a relatively consistent number of new firms being founded over the 15 years since then.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We had no money, strategy, or office. What about strategy? At the very beginning, I mentioned that we had no strategy. When we entered the eLearning niche in 2005, interest in online education and eLearning solutions was just beginning. At some point, we came up with the Fast-Track strategy.

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Feedough

APRIL 14, 2021

Acqui-hiring is one such strategy that changes the game and has gained popularity in recent years. Acqui-hiring is simply a strategy that assists the growth of the company with the expertise of recruited employees. This term is believed to have first appeared in a blog post by Rex Hammock on May 11, 2005.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Booking.com started in 1996 and was later acquired by Priceline Group (now called Booking Holdings) in 2005. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? Adyen launched in 2006, and in June 2018, it was listed as one of Europe’s largest tech IPOs with a value of €7 billion. Stefan van Duin , partner, Borski Fund.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

YC itself says it was founded in 2005 as “an antidote to the classic venture capital firm.” Gibson, who previously served as general partner focused on crypto, web2, SaaS and devops) will lead the firm’s early-stage investment strategy. Since inception, my goal has always been for Initialized to outlive its founders.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What problem are they solving?

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective strategy Ambition 2030 represents the promise of Impact Hub when I first joined as a member (Impact Hub Islington, 2005). Also, it’s why I started an Impact Hub (Amsterdam, 2008), why I served on the global Board (2015-2018) and contributed through other roles, and why I want to continue to serve the network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. As it enters the U.K. market, Sleek has also announced the acquisition of Ltd Companies , the U.K.-based Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based based SMEs.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

Its relentless growth-at-all-cost strategy produced a bloated, high-cost company that had little chance of survival as the business transitioned from brick-and-mortar. The most notorious example of such strategies was Antioco’s decision to eliminate late fees in 2005.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Since launching in 2005, the Impact Hub network has undergone significant growth, now reaching over 16,500 members in 100+ locations across the globe. This shift in strategy separates from the core mission of the Impact Hub network and points us in two different trajectories, so we believe it has come the time for us to part ways.

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Jason Malki

JUNE 6, 2022

He specializes in Identifying new lucrative markets, implementing and developing creative strategies, and fun-damental relationship building which have been pivotal in launching new products and guiding companies toward new revenue heights. While managing Sales + Strategy over the last 5.5 Thank you so much for joining us!

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Y Combinator

JUNE 25, 2021

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. Fundraising : How to best execute a strategy to raise the right amount of capital, at the right time from the right investors. Over the years, I’ve found that there is a common misapprehension about what we do at Y Combinator.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, Pew Research publishes an annual fact sheet that charts the demographics of social media users annually, since 2005. However, if social media is a large component of your business strategy, you need to set aside ample time to dedicate to its success. However, keep in mind that user behavior changes. time, keep trying.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2020

And, their recent growth rates—up 47% since 2005—is pretty impressive too. This suggests that strategies to attract and recruit at-home workers (what we used to call “lone eagles”) could pay dividends. Specifically, it reviews the latest numbers on home-based workers, and shows that, nationally, about 5.3% million people.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

Since launching in 2005, the Impact Hub network has undergone significant growth, now reaching over 16,500 members in 100+ locations across the globe. Impact Hub Montreal was officially launched in June 2018, as part of the Impact Hub Network annual Global Gathering held in Montreal and Ottawa.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 19, 2013

I started working in ad tech in 2005 and during the past eight years, the ad tech ecosystem has progressively become more sophisticated, competitive and oligopolistic. Similar to starting a new quant hedge fund, you develop a novel trading strategy that works and sell it to customers. It’s hard to innovate in ad tech.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

Taleo 85 1000 85 2005 6. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market. SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4B in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B in February 2012. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding. SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

That figure is up from 18% in 2005. Investment strategies for these types of investors can change quickly. For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment.

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Campaign Monitor

MARCH 8, 2022

In fact, Buzzfeed’s simple email marketing strategy is one to copy. . It’s better to send nothing than to send an email that looks like it was coded in 2005 (hey, unless that’s your brand’s big thing). . BuzzFeed has the market cornered on more than just online quizzes. Newsletter design matters. Keep it skimmable.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I remember joining Google in 2005. On internal meetings: Stripe asked teams to create strategy documents to describe why they exist - what’s the team’s mission and strategy? A few weeks ago, Office Hours at Redpoint welcomed Claire Hughes-Johnson, former COO at Stripe and VP at Google.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. Though it may seem that the growth was simply executing a constant gameplan, the underlying data suggests a significant shift in strategy.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. I would say I just described a complicated thing, but it’s actually annual hero metrics, lots of dashboards of input and output metrics, and then goals that are really explaining the strategy, like, “Why do I want to move this thing? Do we have the wrong strategy?

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

A different strategy is required. Many software survivors of the dot-com crash pursued a more conservative strategy and were rewarded for their prudence. in 2005, but they were nearly cash-flow break-even throughout the period. Now, for many parts of the startup ecosystem we’re entering a buyer’s market.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. But this strategy great depends on point 3. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 Availability of Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

You can enter either but your strategy must be very different and I can tell you that fragmented markets are easier to disrupt. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. SEO doesn’t just happen – it requires a content strategy, inbound links, relevancy, keyword strategies, etc.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 14, 2014

This is the question Best Buy store managers posed each time a potential customer walked into one of its stores when the company decided to segment its customer base in 2005. Personas define the company’s strategy of which customers to pursue and which not to. Are you a Barry, Jill, Buzz, Angel or a Devil? Jills are soccer moms.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They picked apart holes in our strategy and they were right. I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it.

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