Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 18, 2022

This is an edited and abridged version of a post that originally ran on the Anduril blog. It would be difficult to find a more prophetic blog post in the history of technology commentary than Marc Andreessen’s 2011 “Why Software is Eating the World.” Over the past decade, software companies have driven the lion’s share.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 11, 2023

An EO member-leader since 2011, Adriaanse is today a member of EO Canada Bridge alongside some of Canada’s finest entrepreneurs and changemakers. and more articles from the EO blog. The post Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I didn’t sleep much back then. I was on the road much and I internalized much of the stress so that others didn’t have to. And so it goes again. According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

AUGUST 14, 2019

Tumblr was both a blogging platform and a social media application and while I always loved the versatility of the platform, native mobile applications benefit from simplicity, not complexity. There was a time around 2010 and 2011 when Tumblr was the most engaging social platform that I was on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

For me, that point came in 2011, when our company, Acceleration Partners, was doing about $1 million in revenue and I joined EO. appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Though the company was growing, I was doing everything and was burnt out. Invest in Your People Holistically.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 13, 2015

I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. We stayed in touch and reconnected around a blog post that I wrote in 2012 on falling in love with the problem and not getting attached to the solution. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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Gust

JANUARY 25, 2016

Bill Payne did a great post about this in October 2011. The post Valuation Part I: Peeling the Onion, or How Top Investors Value the Startups They Invest In appeared first on The Gust Blog. Early-stage technology company valuations are generally a crap-shoot. Read more >.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We’re less than 8 years old so you can do the math on growth rates and figure out that we’re on an elite trajectory. And a special thank you to Heather Brunner, our CEO for the past four and a half years. Long-time readers of this (11-year old!!)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. Back in 2011, Ammar used to work for a company called Be Sport. Zagury listed some of The Family’s portfolio companies in her blog post.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Bill Gurley tweeted his blog post from 2011 that “ all revenue is not created equal.” So how you value and how you finance low margin businesses becomes very important. They can’t be valued too highly or you risk a financing crisis. ” That is a great way of saying what I was trying to say.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The original version of this article appeared on Aaron’s LinkedIn blog. Aaron graduated from EO Accelerator and went on to become an EO member in 2011. It was a cool morning in April of 2011 when I found myself wandering around this cliff side town of Positano, Italy. So ask yourself: What’s your Positano?

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2011

I am excited to announce nextNY Fellows--a program that will support four new community leaders in 2011 build on what we already have and make it better, all while building their own skills and network. Here's what they will get: - A $500 stipend for 2011 to be used on leadership development. . The details of this program are below.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Beyond co-founding Initialized, which raised a $700 million fund (its sixth) last year and has over $1 billion in known assets under management, Tan was also co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous, which was acquired by Twitter in 2012.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Slowly, Mike’s Bloggity Blog became one of Canada’s premier entertainment sites, and Morrison found himself with a local newspaper column as well as regular television and radio appearances.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tim has been an EO member since 2011. The post B2B Game Changers: How to Discover a Distinct Advantage and Become a Market Leader appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. Praxent has been named for three consecutive years to the Inc.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Did someone blog something that didn't quite sit right with you and so you've been avoiding them? A thoughtful comment every time they post a new blog? Do more for others in 2011, and I guarantee it will come back to you in spades. That's why it's really important to remember one key thing: Relationships are everything.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Moneyball (2011). Ctrl+Alt+Compete (2011). We’ll post new pictures, stories, videos and memes every day on: Octane blog , Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and Instagram. The post 18 Films Entrepreneurs *Should* See appeared first on THE BLOG. Wall Street (1987). The Godfather (1972). Nightcrawler (2014). Rocky (1976).

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

I've been in the startup world since 2012 and only recently started finding content addressing this topic (take a look at the Startup Therapy podcast and on Josh Pigford's blog at Baremetrics). In 2011, he founded Pota-Toss, a Kickstarter-funded iOS game, released on the App Store on October 2012.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2011, Greg’s first book, Simple Numbers, Straight Talk, Big Profits shares his core principles of how to turn your business into a wealth-building engine. The post How to Project Cash Flow to Forecast the Impact of COVID-19 appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. And 18 months later, in May 2011, I have crossed 422,000 views. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5 I did that?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Joining forces with SentinelOne is just the opposite: an opportunity to continue on Attivo’s current path without slowing down,” Kothari wrote in a company blog post announcing the deal. Attivo launched in 2011 and raised more than $60 million along the way. SentinelOne went public last June , raising $1.2

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 13, 2020

In 2011, his iconic card reader design was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art. The post Innovation Stacks and Crazy Entrepreneurs appeared first on Octane Blog – The official blog of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. McKelvey founded Invisibly, an ambitious project to rewire the economics of online content, in 2016.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” As Founder and CEO of Boston Human Capital Partners, Kate Morgan started her consulting firm in 2011, on the heels of the recession. The post Kate Morgan: Leadership vs. Entrepreneurship appeared first on THE BLOG. Participants encompass a wide range of businesses, but they share many commonalities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I didn’t sleep much back then. I was on the road much and I internalized much of the stress so that others didn’t have to. And so it goes again. According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

After you claim your identity with placeholder domain names, accounts in social networks, and common blogging platforms, your next challenge is to create enough positive content as a “Google wall” to keep negative info out of the top Google search results. Twittering. Profile sites.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

The three largest webmail services had over 1 billion global users at the end of 2011. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that. There are 2.9 billion email accounts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

In 2011 , as Twitter hit the 100 million active users mark, the entrepreneur left to pursue new projects with Obvious Corporation , a startup incubator and investment vehicle that had included fellow Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. Like us,” Pal wrote in a blog post. “Systems are made of people.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Aaron Lee is the CEO and founder of iluma Agency (formerly Illuminati Studios) and joined EO South Florida in 2011. . The post In My Words: Aaron Lee on How EO Accelerator Altered His Journey appeared first on THE BLOG. I joined EO Accelerator in 2009, when I owned a business and my business owned me.

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Hunter Walk

JUNE 26, 2023

Chris Neumann (of Canada’s Panache Ventures ) checks these boxes so I asked him to come on my blog (currently less consistent, hopefully still the other two) for Five Questions. HW: Your blog , which I love, tries to bridge a knowledge gap between founders and investors, often explaining ‘why investors do/care about X’ and so on.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

While founded long before the pandemic, Steve King says that Black Swan Data , the data science and tech company that he helped co-launch in 2011, is well-suited to the current environment. That’s true during less chaotic times, but the stakes are higher at the moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2013

I miss blogging because it serves as a great repository for me of my current thinking, as a way of organizing my thoughts and clarifying what I think and as a conversation started with so many of you (as Hunter Walk elegantly said, “Blog not to show how smart you are, but in the hope of soliciting feedback from smart people.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

His co-founder Jon Williams was previously a co-founder at Culture Amp, an employee experience management platform he helped launch in 2011 (and which raised more than $150 million), so the two of them have been immersed in this idea. In a nutshell, we radically personalize employee communications,” Luijke explained.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

In 2011, I heard a speech by Mark Zandi [chief economist of Moody’s Analytics] revealing that entrepreneurship in the U.S. appeared first on THE BLOG. Craig Hall, the writer of Boom: Bridging the Opportunity Gap to Reignite Startups , shares his view on the current state of entrepreneurship in the U.S. . was in trouble.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In 2011, we launched the first primary school chain in Africa that employs a blended learning model. The post Sneak Preview of our Newest Octane Cover Story: Starting a SPARK appeared first on THE BLOG. We want to change the local mindset when it comes to education.”. RH: “And really, that’s where SPARK Schools comes in.

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For Entrepreneurs

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

This blog post looks at the process that I would use as a board member or investor to validate a bookings forecast, checking to see if the key elements that are needed to support that forecast have been thought through properly.

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