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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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

To find out, I asked a panel of successful entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) , the following question: What do you think will be the new “it” social- or content-related job in 2014 for startups and why? The year for Google+ in social is 2014. John Hall , Influence & Co. . Google+ Expert.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” For Drift, founded in 2014, that was easier said than done: Drift didn’t go all-in on “conversational marketing” until 2018. An eponymous book (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Peers won’t be able to help you much in finding external investors, co-founders with prior experience and industry connections for distribution and marketing. The idiosyncrasies of supplier relationships, distribution and pricing are just as important as the generic elements of time and money management.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 21, 2025

[While I’m going to focus on investor secondary here, I support common share sales as well – for example, back in 2014 writing “ Getting Some Founders Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs ” during a period where many founders were being shamed for even asking about taking some money off the table.]

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2014

Much like executive recruiters recognize the best executives, a technical expert in your business domain will recognize the right combination of skill, creativity and experience you need for a co-founder or key team member. Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/8/2014. Are you there?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Where in your area will you find land or a building with the right zoning, size, facilities, and access for bringing in raw materials, attracting customers, and/or shipping out finished beer for distribution? How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the founders, but didn’t have much conviction around the scalability of a browser plug-in and the fact that this was a bridge round. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. We met Sonder’s founder Francis Davidson many times between 2014 and 2016.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . Join others who code to change the world for the better and explore distributed computing, examine the confluence between businesses and technology, and debate the power of technology on urban development. Hopefully we will see you there! Hopefully we will see you there!

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. billion in venture funding.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We see co-working spaces where the ratio of work to non-work (ping pong, beer, startup talks, etc) is pretty low, while elsewhere founders enamored with the lifestyle or perception of being an entrepreneur, believing they’ve made it once their company raises a Series B.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . Both left killer tech careers to focus full-time on the Gluten Free Bar company they co-founded with Elliot’s brother, Marshall. Steve Jobs. It’s Tuesday morning.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In 2014, Pledge1% Global launched as a joint effort between Foundry Group, The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado , The Salesforce Foundation and The Atlassian Foundation which we helped seed financially and continue to support. Pledge 1% Colorado has now distributed over $8 million back to various organizations in our community.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

billion for 2014. In April 2014 Facebook acquired the maker of Moves app, which is also part of this trend, called by many the ‘Quantified Self’. The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Sagi Shorrer is the co-founder of Brainbow, the creator of Peak app.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We see co-working spaces where the ratio of work to non-work (ping pong, beer, startup talks, etc) is pretty low, while elsewhere founders enamored with the lifestyle or perception of being an entrepreneur, believing they’ve made it once their company raises a Series B.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We see co-working spaces where the ratio of work to non-work (ping pong, beer, startup talks, etc) is pretty low, while elsewhere founders enamored with the lifestyle or perception of being an entrepreneur, believing they’ve made it once their company raises a Series B.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Steve Kelly, Lead Investor; Godfrey Nazareth, President & CEO; and Matthew Maltese PhD, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. with Kirsten Cluthe as Contributor.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 10, 2016

Virtual Reality (VR) is one of the hottest market sectors in the world today, growing from a $90 million business in 2014, to $4.1 Leon Ng , President of LNG Studios , an award winning architectural and real estate 3D visualization studio and founder of North America’s largest Real Estate Television Network.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 16, 2015

One of the things about Andela that stands out is co-founder Jeremy Johnson’s assertion that statistically speaking, there is a comparable genius-level population everywhere in the world, but what’s been missing is an equal distribution of opportunity. Founder Salman Khan, image via Khan Academy.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. Congratulations class of 2014: Embrace change and lead the way. This never ends well. Be an optimist.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? Many European founders wonder where to start their company - move to the US or stay in Europe.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve. AJ: Back in 2014, Reserve had to decide whether to run our private beta and launch in just one city, or to come out swinging in multiple metros. we don’t know.”. There were trade-offs with both options.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve. AJ: Back in 2014, Reserve had to decide whether to run our private beta and launch in just one city, or to come out swinging in multiple metros. we don’t know.”. There were trade-offs with both options.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The public scoffed at the startup led by 23-year-old cofounder Evan Spiegel dismissing billion-dollar buyouts when his company has zero revenue, but with the red-hot messaging market growing in 2014, Snapchat might prove the naysayers wrong. IFTTT=If This Then That. Coin is available to pre-order now for $100. Correction, Jan.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2014

by Eric Groves, CEO and co-founder of Alignable. And by working together, you can also reach more local customers by co-marketing the event. Make sure you have a plan to distribute promotions and events through all of your marketing assets. Connect with others nearby to become stronger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. I have this sort of general theory that when a founder calls asking for vague help, what they're really calling for is like a friend or a therapist. Also, just the intense uncertainty.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. The title is not important; the work they do is. Netflix is one of my all-time favorite products and companies.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We launched Fundera in February of 2014 this year and it’s been a wonderful experience helping small businesses ever since we started. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Bates: That’s fantastic. Thank you Jared.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. 2014, Believing in me, I took a leap starting my own company. Karibu Markets began after a trip I took to Kenya in early 2014.

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