crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. 3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder – [link]. If there’s one video 1st time founders should watch to understand VC financing it’s this one – [link]. ” – [link].

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

In 2013, a Pew Research Center study revealed some sobering insights into the reasons why 34 percent of millennial women weren’t interested in becoming a boss or top manager. Carve your own path and you’ll always be heading in the right direction,” says the co-founder of Ipsy Michelle Phan in an article on Inc.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

A 2013 study published by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford shows 66 percent of the nation’s workforce has a medium to high risk of being displaced due to technology advances in coming decades. Scott Cook, cofounder of Intuit, and Smith emphasized humility and empathy in their innovation culture and processes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

NYU has adopted the Lean LaunchPad ® class as a standard entrepreneurship course across twelve different schools/colleges within the University. Over 1,000 students a year are learning lean startup concepts. The Educators Program is a 2½ day class that teaches faculty how to create and teach their own Lean LaunchPad class.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And great founders never stop to wonder if they’re qualified to do a startup. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were: Betsy Corcoran , co-founder and CEO of the education technology news site EdSurge. Betsy Corcoran. Miriam Altman. Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began. Two things.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors. Founder, Robyn Exton, explained to TNW that location had to still be included as a relevant factor but exactly how important it was varies from person to person.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

In 2013 Homebrew lost two opportunities and each time we learned something about our process and how to improve. Loss 1: Offered a Substantial Secondary Slot But Passed Since We Seek to Lead/Co-Lead. This opportunity looked juicy: two founders we knew previously, mission-driven, attacking a big market.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Curt Haselton. He received his Ph.D.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. You want to apply Lean Startup methods at your company, but your boss is used to being the decision-maker and is resistant to the concept of testing ideas. On October 8 at 10a PT, join us for a webcast, Bringing Lean Startup to Established Companies.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. Previously, he was the COO of digital gift card start-up Giftly from its inception in 2010 to its acquisition by Giftcards.com in 2013.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Survival is the order of the day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The teams are made up of founders who are dramatically younger. The good thing about young founders is that they don’t know what’s not possible, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. Why You Should Join Us in 2015 Since 2011, The Lean Startup has helped countless ventures transform ideas into thriving businesses. We attended in 2013, and we enjoyed it so much that we attended again in 2014.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Curt Haselton. He received his Ph.D.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. In 2013, everything changed. We price competitively, and we keep our operations as lean as possible. As Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace , Charles Cridland has experience of growing a successful startup from its inception.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. While I was there … I touched tens of thousands of companies.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

But there is also opportunity in lean times. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Facebook goes public in 2012 and Twitter in 2013. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. Survival is the order of the day.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Wednesday November 7th, 2013. There was no Brad Pitt, broken ribs or bars of soap but The Founder’s Fight Club was just as entertaining as the Hollywood film. John Girard, Advisor, Founder, Mentor.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Guest author Allan Thorvaldsen is CEO and co-founder of Panorama9 , a cloud-based dashboard for IT managers. To help, here is a 5-step checklist to help you successfully manage the transition to 2013 for your startup’s IT needs: 1. You need to show that you’re running as lean an operation as possible. do you have?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2024

We just finished the 14th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. Below are the Lessons Learned presentations from the spring 2024 Lean LaunchPad. This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started teaching it in both the winter and spring sessions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. Digital Response. She served as the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

” I was told this several times about becoming a parent but the same can be true about the life of a founder. Although the way we spend our days are different than the teams we’ve backed, Homebrew started in Jan 2013 with the goal of feeling like a startup, just one which writes checks instead of code.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

- This article was co-authored with my colleagues Varun Purandare and Candice du Fretay and published initially on Tech.eu. Since 2013, when Wix, the first of these companies went public, the Euroscape Public Index has outpaced the Nasdaq by 2.5x, achieving more than 500% growth in seven years. UiPath was another inspiring company.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2019

A series on things I constantly ask myself as a founder. This is a series on things I’ve asked myself constantly as a founder. the passionate fellow startup founders, VCs, and other advisors who adhere to the “all in” method. Myself and my founder have decided not to pay ourselves yet and invest our money into the business?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust. About VC Cafe.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. This is my favorite business quote because it removes all external factors and focuses on the most important one for launching a business — the founder. The company’s success is a determinant of the founder. Thanks to Annkur P Agarwal, Pricebab ! #6 Image Credit: Johannes Kanter.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc.

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