Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 9, 2018

Fellow Forum members don’t give advice; they speak from prior experience, letting you draw your own conclusions on how to best proceed. That was in 2006. These confidential meetings with seven to 10 peers are a highly rated benefit of membership. My mother-in-law, Kellie, figured, “how hard can that be?”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

File this under both Startup Adivce and Sales & Marketing Advice. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Sales & Marketing Advice Social Media Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

Young looks back at “five key failure points” that are common potholes on every founder’s path and shares tactical advice for addressing internal conflict, losing product-market fit and other stumbles. “If these reflections help even one founder make one less mistake, I would consider this effort worthwhile.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

In particular I tried to do most of the “entrepreneur advice on VC” up front so that if you don’t want to watch our views on the deals you don’t have to. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). MetaMarkets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.” Each province tends to have a godfather/cheerleader who has championed local startups through investment, advice and connections. Soon, the region’s hard-luck narrative stuck.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. All of that might be true, but the 2006 price might still be over-valued. That doesn’t mean it’s not a bubble. source: Capital IQ. But it will end. The road ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. &# In a way, LinkedIn has become mostly a chore for me – a place to provide intros for two people that I know. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2006, Google had the opportunity to buy YouTube. Shchegolev and Melnikov began experimenting with different SEO strategies in 2006. But if you follow the founders’ advice in today’s guide, you can drive real results for your startup in 2022. But she took the job anyway and quickly rose through the ranks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Then, once a creator inks a deal with Spotter, the company will use those analytics to give them advice about growing their channel. Before founding Spotter, DeBevoise was an executive at Machinima, where he worked between 2006 and 2014, per LinkedIn. Not every creator economy startup is built for creators.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

I had promised myself I would at least enjoy grad school before "officially" jumping back into a startup and so I held off on officially launching HubSpot until the day I had my graduation ceremony (June 9, 2006). Note: this is not investment advice). I then wrote a seed round investment check of $500,000 to HubSpot. Not so fast.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. It’s that simple. Many term sheets ensued.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

When Salesforce.com decided to buy my company in December 2006 I dropped everything and focused religiously on closure. This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice (although this also applies tightly with Raising Venture Capital ). Any deal – ANY DEAL – that was pre 9/11 was suddenly in question. ABC: Always Be Closing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Back in 2006 Facebook made a conscious decision to encourage the platform ecosystem even if it meant creating large businesses like Zynga (Slide & RockYou were the initial big players) that could make a lot of money off of Facebook. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice. If you’ve read any of my blog posts before you’ll probably recognize that I’m from this school of thought where founders & investors need to be more aligned and I’ve been very cynical of historic VC practices.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

René: If you go back to what accountants were 60 years ago, before I was born, before technology came in, accountants actually were the trusted partner that was adding advice, because they did everything. I’ve been an entrepreneur since 2006. And that’s what I think is coming full circle.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2020

René founded Bill.com in 2006. His grandfather was a business owner, and his father built five businesses. So you can say that René has entrepreneurship in his blood. And he has proved it by building successful businesses. Prior to Bill.com, he built PayCycle and sold it to Intuit.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, Juniper and countless others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. I had several term sheets and one of the leading term sheets had an option pool of 40% in it.

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Feedough

APRIL 24, 2021

In 2006, Aytekin Tank founded JotForm as a side hustle while working full-time as a senior web developer in an Internet Media Company. A simple solution to this dilemma is to seek expert advice. Advertisement Should You Start Your Business While Working Full-Time?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets. I wanted to model myself after Brad Feld and provide advice on dealing with VCs because that is what made me want to work with Brad when I was an entrepreneur. I had run 2 companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 11, 2015

It reminds me a lot of how TechCrunch felt in 2006. Ryan talked about his transition from product manager to CEO and offers advice [1 minute]. Ryan offers advice for people who want to get into product management but don’t have a PM background [90 seconds]. Product Hunt.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. Tags: Start-up Advice. CEO/President is Karl Siebrecht (ex-Pres of Atlas at AQuantive and ex-GM of ad platform product management, search and display marketing, and mobile and gaming advertising for Microsoft). 5.3mm – Investors: Madrona, Bain Capital, Khosla Ventures – Read more: TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Christensen at Harvard Business School in 2006. None of this can be accomplished without technology. Graveyards are full of firms that have ignored competitive threats that were underpinned by technology. He joined the faculty there in 1992 after many years as an executive. Credit: Jodi Hilton for The New York Times.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We had agreed to sell the company to Salesforce.com and between the offer in December 2006 and the closing March 27th, 2007 I focused exclusively on the sale to Salesforce.com. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. As a result I freed up the time to get back into shape.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs ! Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. So eventually the money has to start flowing. But I do believe it’s too early to proclaim victory.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. We’d love to hear any advice that you have for early founders. If you had to give one piece of advice to your earlier self on finding and winning your initial customers, what might that be? So it was kind of in the back of my mind for a long time.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Advice to managers, entrepreneurs. With a multitude of caveats, then, it might be worthwhile to your followers to heed the following advice: Anticipate the worst, prepare for it, and hope for the best! Take a lesson from Ford Motor Company and their prescient CFO and President in 2006 and 2007. A lesson from the recent past.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. Between 2006 and 2008, Klarna continued to grow as more people started shopping online. companies should relocate to Silicon Valley if they really want to grow.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capital. You get the point.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 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. was starting.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

And more embarassingly to me Garindra Prahandono gave me this link to an article written by the guru of web design, Jakob Nielsen about the 1/9/90 rule written back in 2006. T-shirt can be ordered here: Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. But perhaps the lurker category is smaller.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I started in 2006, learned garage doors, I was painting them at the time. Who’s the one who’s holding that torch of the purpose, values, mission beside the technicians, who else is part of that team, and what’s your advice to us, as we’re looking to grow companies with other leaders? Owning A Job vs a Business.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology. We went through the hype cycle again but this time I was grounded. I had a plan. I knew where I wanted to take all the energy we had created. I loved the product my team had build – it was truly groundbreaking.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. StockTwits) where you really want to know more about the person giving you advice. Either they make our social graph portable or we’ll find other networks to join.

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