InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

When I got to LA after I graduated from college in 2005, I pursued it full time, and we quickly grew that company to over $5M in revenues a year, without any kind of funding. I think that, a lot of startups that might have failed at this ten years ago, might have a new life today. Why it is you were successful, where they weren't?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

As our needs grew we could just add more cheap boxes and as boxes failed we could just chuck them out. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” In fact, most investors are wary of anyone who claims to have never failed, reading that claim as an indication of too much caution, or not able to face their own reality. Do it for meaning.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2013

I started Young Turks back in 2002, and then, in 2006 and really towards the end of 2005, started daily web streaming for the show. Back in 2005, we even had Sirius Satellite Radio tell us they''d pay us a quarter million to not do online video. Our hope, is that we can use one of the main failings of media, to change the media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” In fact, most investors are wary of anyone who claims to have never failed, reading that claim as an indication of too much caution, or not able to face their own reality. Do it for meaning.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. If you were a science man and you failed by proving a hypothesis was incorrect – that was ok! I remember this lesson well. At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure.

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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. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2015

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” In fact, most investors are wary of anyone who claims to have never failed, reading that claim as an indication of too much caution, or not able to face their own reality. Do it for meaning.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 13, 2016

Keep in mind that between 70 and 90 percent of merger attempts fail, and a large portion of that can be related to having unclear objectives from the outset. A good example of this eBay’s acquisition of Skype in 2005, which resulted in a loss just four years later because leadership failed to integrate the two companies effectively.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In Europe, over fifty percent of all the unicorns that have come out of Europe since 2005 have come from the Nordics. That's actually where most companies fail. How did a fund originally from the Nordics become interested in investing in Los Angeles companies? Richard Sussman: That's a great question. READ MORE>>.

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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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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2015

It also improves reliability, because there are fewer places to fail. I remember, telling my friends and family in 2005 that I was working on a 3D printer, and their eyes would glaze over. We''ve stripped out about two third of the parts needed in a motion system, which allows us to manufacture the product very cost effectively.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He used this term so often that it eventually became the title of his 2005 book on business advice. After his third failed attempt to travel around the globe non-stop in a balloon, Richard told the media, “I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we’ve just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.”

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2010

Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. This phenomenon is partially due to the fact that the senior members of the Serial Team, much like a parent, fail to realize that the younger team members have matured and are no longer as inexperienced as they were when they first joined the Serial Team. Let The Lead Singer Go Solo.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. It is 2010. That means that they likely raised money at a particularly high price relative to 2010 prices.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

However, as we have seen in the last few years, traditional media has been failing. In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D. That is starting to show itself in the B2B space. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 However, such speculative work should only make up a fraction of a service provider’s overall revenue base in order to minimize the impact should an entrepreneur’s vision fail to gain traction.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 16, 2013

Charlie eventually sold those shares for $26 million when he left the business in 2005, which meant he earned $4.3 However, such speculative work should only make up a fraction of a service provider’s overall revenue base in order to minimize the impact should an entrepreneur’s vision fail to gain traction.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Now that I know who’s operating the Twitter app owning ThingFetcher, I take back the insults above I’ve removed some insults from above, because they’d no longer address an anonymous developer, but bright folks who’ve just failed once.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Coffin sold LowerMyBills.com in 2005 for 300 million and took that money into the Los Angeles startup sector. Yes, that means a number have failed, but his successes are too important to ignore. Since 1996, Gross has been running Idealab. Close to 100 companies have come and gone through Gross’ doors, 35 of which have gone public.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

Here’s my view: - When Twitter started gaining hyper traction in early 2009 many people signed up and/or returned to use it again having had failed attempts at getting excited by Twitter in 2007 (I am in the latter category). And I’m enjoying being part of the two-way conversation again as I was from 2005-2007.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. In attacking “ fail fast &# I wasn’t trying to say the “lean startup&# movement was wrong. In my mind public debate is the highest form of democracy. It proves that you really have freedom of speech. Let me explain. So it goes on my blog.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. By then the open-source movement had really developed.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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