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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 4, 2014
Two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.
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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Austin Startup
AUGUST 10, 2017
But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. In 2014 he launched what was the first cryptoasset venture fund, the Dapps Fund.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 16, 2012
Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. With 1,300 employees and 12 years after its founding, he remains CEO of the company.
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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