Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/31/2014. Even top big-company executives are considered high-risk in a startup environment.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

by Nick Candito, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Nick Candito is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly , championing the company’s mission towards helping our customers transform the way they do business.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft. Brian Balfour, Founder & CEO of Reforge. Product Guild.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. If 2024 Kieran could whisper something into the ear of 2014 Kieran, what would you have told her about the difference between leading a team vs leading a company? But that’s not really how we saw ourselves when we started.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 10, 2013

Nadav Poraz, Founder, WhoSampled. Ori Goshen, Co-Founder & VP R&D, Tawkon. Michael Cheng, Cofounder, Needle. Jesse Dallal, Cofounder, Rithm. When you have your paper prototype, step out of your office, find people who are at least similar to your target users and begin testing! 4) Get feedback early on.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

by Nick Candito, cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly. Nick Candito is cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Progressly , championing the company’s mission towards helping our customers transform the way they do business. Every year, companies lose 20 to 30 percent in revenue due to inefficiencies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Small businesses rarely have the time or resources to invest in outsourced customer service support, and some are finding it more efficient to serve customers via social media platforms: one LinkedIn study from 2014 revealed that 81 percent of North American SMEs use social media [5]. This was the experience of Herschel Supply Co.,

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Co-Founder & CEO. Co-Founder & COO. David Harper.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Initially, your staff (even if that’s just you and a co-founder) will be your greatest asset in locating and connecting with your audience. An advance purchase garners a 50 percent discount off the planned price of $100, encouraging investment long in advance of the summer 2014 launch date.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

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. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2017

million seed round, we’re looking back at our journey with founders Mike Murchison and David Hariri. Just after closing Fund II in October 2014, Boris took a trip to Toronto. As Ada Support launches its automated chat platform from stealth and announces an impressive $2.5

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

We’ve gathered up some of the worst fails of 2014 and included some helpful tips on how to avoid them yourself. The scandal over Tinder CEO Sean Rad and CMO Justin Mateen sexually harassing fellow cofounder Whitney Wolfe ended in a million dollar settlement and horrible publicity for the company.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. You have the Startup Awards, the Family Business Awards, even the Security & Fire Excellence Awards (which has sold out every year since 2014!). Every founder has a good story to tell! Make sure to check out your competitors and see which awards they have won.

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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 spent $20k on their MVP.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 31, 2014

Yoav Vilner is the CEO and co-founder of Ranky.co , a growth hacking and online marketing team. Fast forward to 2014. So, what SHOULD you do in 2014? By now you must have realized what’s WRONG, now is the fun part; here’s what’s going to work in 2014 and even after the next Google update.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. But we were shocked when, in December of 2014, the price of oil dropped, which caused an instant recession in our two biggest markets, whose currencies lost half their value overnight, essentially doubling our dollar-based prices for our customers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. 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. Clay Hebert.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

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. Jeremy Johnson , founder of Andela , which embeds talented software engineers on the African continent into top engineering organizations worldwide. Jeremy Johnson.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2016

by Evan Varsamis, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc. Myself and my co-founders were just a bunch of young upstarts with a big idea. Come early 2014, myself and the team at Gadget Flow had been trying to cope with the website’s demanding tasks. Evan Varsamis is an entrepreneur, Founder/CEO at Gadget Flow Inc.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

You might assume the event took place in Sao Paolo or Mexico City, but no, it was in Miami, and will be again in 2014. Endeavor recognizes that although entrepreneurial activity already exists in Miami, it remains difficult for founders to reach scale. The decision to host the conference in Miami is hardly unfounded.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

After living and traveling around Thailand in 2014 and with other travelers I was desperate to learn Thai. My co-founder and I started our labor-only moving company as the first movers ourselves. I was a co-founder of a startup rather early in my career and my first startup was acquired by Microsoft.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

View this post on Instagram Watch our detachable soles being made near Milan #mahabis #soles #shoes #factory #milan #italy #videooftheday #instadaily #ig #sneakers #kicks #design #fashion #yellow A post shared by mahabis (@mahabis) on Apr 10, 2014 at 5:53am PDT. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Last year, NextView co-founder and partner David Beisel asked our portfolio startups which service providers they use to make up the nuts and bolts of their businesses, which he published as the first edition of a potentially recurring resource. Preferred Boston Startup Service Providers 2014. Click to view a larger version.).

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. Even the Netherlands is catching up, with FailCon NL taking place this week on March 4th, 2014 in Amsterdam. An entrepreneur who has been through the mill before is in fact more likely to succeed.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2018

Founded in 2014, Epic Impact has been tinkering with the best ways to develop and up-level the most abundant leaders on the planet. Sam Taggart , the founder of D2D Con, has gone from being the top rep at Vivent to VP of Sales at Solcius and found his passion on stage producing the massively successful D2D Conference.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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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. Pulizzi is the winner of the 2014 John Caldwell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Content Council.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. Download the ecentre study “Where To Grow”, including a checklist for founders wanting to go global, at [link]. The post Go global or grow local?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

As you are probably aware, 2014 saw the explosion of coding schools all over the US. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). So Paul, welcome back.

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