Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I wrote a post about Facebook Like buttons some time ag. 7 Characteristics of a Re. : The Complete Small Busine.

Web 69

Web Software Review Cofounder Small Business 69

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Probably the grand-daddy of VC blogs, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson has been posting every day since 2003. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. A Smart Bear.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors.

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Lean Georgia Michigan Business Model 324

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. Delaying going out of business gives you way more chances at product / market fit than any other strategy I know of. Fair point.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

Kansas City 62

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Development 62

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

For starters let me use “CEO” as a proxy to include her “inner circle” which might mean co-founders or might just mean senior execs of the business. The Mind of the Founder. How can you show “traction” on a product that just launched? The startup CEO was not the original founder.

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Startup Dilution San Diego Stock Options 417

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

Audio 96

Audio Cofounder Framework Early Stage 96

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. Even though I had done it before, I had never heard the term sharding before joining Google (early 2003) so I always thought the term originated there. Two of my favorites are from Flixster and LiveJournal.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. It's the founders themselves. Can you find the right co-founder? So woman founder.

Framework 94

Framework Cofounder Early Stage IPO 94

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. As CEO and co-founder Naval Ravikant tells me, when he and co-founder Babak Nivi started VentureHacks a few years ago, their goal was to educate companies on how to negotiate venture term sheets. → Learn More.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc.

Small Business 48

Small Business Social Media Engineer Matching 48

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay.

Internet 88

Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Tell us your story:

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire 54

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Review something (products you carry, shows you watch, your new boots, anything that might interest your target audience. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. In 2003, he departed Nettworth to found Schedulicity.

Social Media 235

Social Media Small Business Media Widget 235

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. We were originally called Maples Investments, because my co-founding partner is Mike Maples, and we had that as a placeholder.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2013

by MaryAnn Bekkedahl, co-founder and president of theSwizzle. They invest in people as much as they do a product or service. The ‘jockey,’ of course, is the founder and leadership team. No amount of investment can buy customers if your product itself can’t earn them. VCs bet on the jockey, not the horse.

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Cofounder Leadership Startup Founder 160

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. spray-and-pray? startupcto

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JULY 15, 2013

It was at that time that I reconnected with Raj De Datta, a fantastically talented repeat entrepreneur with whom I had gone to Harvard Business School from 2001-2003. I’ll also never forget all of the potential technical co-founders that we talked to who never seemed to be a perfect fit. That is, until we met Ashutosh Garg.

Mobile 141

Mobile SEO Cofounder Boston 141

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. But producing a professional and slick product costs money.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

Startup 188

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 188

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At different periods in my life, I worked in a cell phone store, sold Amway products, and sold nutritional supplements. I realized that if I can sell the products and a story and recruit others, then I can sell anything. Learn how to sell anything. Those experiences weren’t always the best, but I did gain something from them.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. This flexible work and meeting space provides a productive work environment for women who primarily work from home. What is Hera Hub?

San Diego 48

San Diego Entrepreneur Marketing Technical Review 48

Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

When artistic virtuosity and extreme productivity become the norms, the human creativity it takes to make work stand out in an environment of accomplished abundance only increases in value. Or they employ some novel production technique to achieve a clever end, like using DALL-E to create images for use in a stop-motion video.

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Warrant Artificial Inteligence Social Media Stock 48

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

Naming 48

Naming Entrepreneur LLC Software Review 48

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We

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Nigeria Africa Reputation Email 148

The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. Investimonials has since reviewed more than 3,000 financial products and services. Entrepreneurial experience. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise.

Stock 142

Stock LLC Entrepreneur Portfolio 142

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur New York Cofounder New York City 120

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

Startup 120

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 120

VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

The company will also receive a single grant of 400,000 shekels to set up a beta-site to prove the product or service’s application in the local market. ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN. Dotomi founder Yair Goldfinger also co-founded ICQ, the technology known today as instant messaging.

Israel 90

Israel China Cofounder India 90

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! SocialMediaExplorer.com is owned, co-authored and edited by Jason. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

Small Business 62

Small Business Marketing Social Media Cofounder 62

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank Rimalovski , executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute joined me in the studio to discuss how the Entrepreneurial Institute is transforming the culture at NYU; and Frank Sculli , co-founder of BioDigital Inc shares what he wishes he’d known before he started his company. Frank Sculli.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Watch Tom & I talk about Glass at StartupGrind: ( videography credit to Big Slick Sloth productions ). He said this. Okay, we’ve had our fun.

Michigan 96

Michigan Boston Jordan Austin 96

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

Startup 100

Startup Cofounder Seed Stage Boston 100

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I wrote a post about Facebook Like buttons some time ag. 7 Characteristics of a Re. : The Complete Small Busine.

Web 68

Web Small Business Social Media Matching 68