Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Use the idea to kick-start your relationships with co-founders, investors, customers and business partners. A recent Department of Education study shows that soft (interpersonal) skills have become more important for success than hard (technical) skills. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/10/2013.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

“Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane. I came up with the idea for Hazel Lane in November 2013 and we launched our first box in December (with subscribers and everything!) T=Time bound.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”).

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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. Why will the tech tsunami propel women into more leadership positions? It’s time to bury Caesar.’

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Bonnstetter | Harvard Business Review – [link]. Does Tech Create Jobs Around the U.S.? Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson -Harvard Business Review – [link]. 20 Tech Trends That Will Define 2013, Selected By Frog|Co.Design – [link]. Maps And Graphs And Charts, Oh My!

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Greenhorn Connect: Excellent collection of BOS tech events and resources.

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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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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Stop looking for cofounders and help them find you instead | The Startup Toolkit Blog - [link]. You can do it alone (why it’s not critical to haver a co-founder) – [link]. A co-founder’s guide to Biz Dev | Soundboy – [link]. HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Information and communications technology industry players in Singapore claim that manpower costs due to recent changes to the country’s foreign manpower policy are likely to be the biggest challenge this year, according to the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF). This is ironic.

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David Cohen

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The technology focus will be about leveraging the success of the Nike+ FuelBand, Nike+ Running and NikeFuel to support digital innovation. Living a healthier life is a hot topic in an exciting space and Nike is perfectly positioned to address this technology. The application deadline is February 3rd, 2013. MIT Technology Review.

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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.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? Phenomenal Reddit AMA … I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – [link]. 75+ Acrylic New Nail Art Designs 2013 – [link].

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

” If you’re in the technology industry you can probably answer but as I discovered this holiday season, most of my extended family and childhood friends were a bit fuzzier on the concept. Turns out the best way to explain was to share how I spend my days at Homebrew , the seed fund Satya and I founded in 2013.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year. That’s what ReadWrite predicted would be the hottest of hot startups in 2013 and, for the most part, we were right. 2013 showed us new hardware built by smaller companies for what seems like the first time in a long time.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

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]. 3 Biggest Mistakes When Choosing a Cofounder – [link]. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link].

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Posted on January 31, 2013. They’re being found at breakneck pace right now precisely because they required substantial new security technology to actually exploit, and that new technology has unlocked an exciting new frontier in vulnerability research. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

If an overseas customer is not able to settle an account due to liquidity problems, sourcing local finance to bridge the gap is an option. Suppliers in the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology or professional services space, need to pay special attention, as these industries have above average DSO. Benchmark the industry DSO.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process. 2009) [ii].

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. Kik Interactive, Inc (@Kik) September 16, 2013. Yet, there was more to come.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2015

But since almost every founder goes through this, I feel it’s a necessary one. So, when should a seed-stage founder — who, let’s face it, isn’t launching a business because they’re pumped to find corporate real estate — actually start looking for a legitimate office?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2014

Jackson Bond is the co-founder of Relayr , the team behind the WunderBar - a set of wireless detachable sensors and smart modules, all of which can be monitored and controlled from your phone and web apps. After deciding to launch a crowdfunding campaign for our product, we landed on the date of December 16th, 2013.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. We were infatuated with tech. We’ve been investing in cryptoassets since 2013. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. But we never lost the finance bug. Factom, Inc.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Remembering Cloudera co-founder Jeff Hammerbacher’s lament that “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” it’s telling that these in-demand startups tend to be working on important problems, even if they’re not searching for the cure to cancer. Lytro (3.9

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

My guests for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast are Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, and Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Advisor of Content Marketing Institute. His third book, Epic Content Marketing was named one of “ Five Must Read Business Books of 2013 ” by Fortune Magazine.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

Having spent a significant portion of my career in high technology, I viewed LED lights as electronic devices whereas the majority of competitors viewed them as lighting devices. 7- Lost a job due to ill health. In 2013, I was diagnosed with a painful orthopedic condition that prevented me from continuing my corporate job.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. In January 2013 I had a lightning bold moment. 6- Whilst very drunk.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

We’re also rapidly becoming known as the go-to firm for training in innovation process and corporate storytelling (Kate Hammer’s StormForms is getting rave reviews, book her now or you’ll be talking 2014). Entries must be received by 9 May 2013 Midnight Eastern Daylight Savings Time. ###.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. 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. First Hands-On With The Incident Tech GTar. HTC One Review. Disrupt NY 2013.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2022

Brennan is the Co-founder of RightMessage, writes weekly at Create & Sell, and wrapping up a new book on personalized marketing. With technology. Brennan Dunn is the co-founder of RightMessage, a software company that helps you uncover who’s on your website, what they do, and what they’re looking for from you.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In fact, looking back over our comments in the 2013 Google doc where we hashed this out, I can see we had fun doing it. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. Oftentimes you’ll be able to find the answers to these questions in forums, customer reviews, or interviews with the founders.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The Review. The Review. Date: September 4, 2013. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. Anyone who wants to become a technical leader should strongly consider joining an early-stage company to get this experience. Date: September 4, 2013.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of growth hacking as marketing is rapid growth, using strategies and tactics that leverage (and even exploit) technology, platforms, and behavior to reach an end goal. GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth.

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