VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. The company’s chairman was the former General Chief of Staff of the IDF 2011-2015. This interview with Ami sheds more light on the company.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Whether or not you can believe it, 2015 is quickly approaching. Too many founders try to do huge advertising bursts at the end of the year in a lazy attempt to hit sales numbers. Budget planning and allocating funds for 2015 should be a priority toward the end of 2014. Apply that logic to your company as you plan for 2015.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Bullish in this space since 2015 I see the air cover in place for institutions and private wealth managers to now take the plunge. This is already happening, but there will be an explosion of rolling funds, operator angels, and micro investors who want to co-invest in friends, companies, and cohorts they are a part of. 9/ Hubs vs.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

DayTwo was founded in 2015 as a science-empowered approach to food as medicine. Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. These mentalities make it easier to start and manage successful businesses, and lend themselves to a more supportive network of entrepreneurial support overall.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space. Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. 17:49] Have you ever experienced a transaction where a Founder sold the company to their existing team? [18:35]

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk. Takipi launched their product in April 2015 and within a year has gained over 120 enterprise and mid-market customers… all by word of mouth. This is exactly how Takipi was born.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015. I am bringing both my personal and professional networks to share back to our Texas friends. I want to make sure more people like me find opportunity in Texas and don’t leave.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2015

by Jake Gasaway, co-founder of Stitch Labs. Focus on social media, leveraging Facebook and Instagram to build a network. Jake Gasaway is co-founder of Stitch Labs. and the Campbell Soup Company for 12 years prior to co-founding Stitch Labs. Retailers are already busy prepping for the holiday season.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, TransferFi is creating the world’s first long-range, safe, and efficient Wireless Power Network (WPN). Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. TFi is revolutionizing the way we access power.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Its three co-founders already had deep experience in the nascent AV space, with each of them playing key roles at early leaders in the field.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. I started Mobile Home Friend, LLC with my son back in 2015. With KOYA, you can easily treat your co-worker to a class at their favorite yoga studio in New York or surprise your partner with a personal message at the park where you first met.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Boulder, CO. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We had a chance to invest in a $500K round at a $12M valuation in 2015. 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.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 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. Carmen Medina , co-author of the book Rebels at Work , spent 32 years at CIA. Don Burke , digital architect for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2015

2015 is here, and you’ve got plans for your business. To give you an idea of what other business owners are planning to do in 2015, we asked entrepreneurs to send us their resolutions. Here’s a compilation of business resolutions for 2015. In 2015…Simplify. In 2015…Grow. How did 2014 go for you?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015. but it’s true.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Charles is the co-author of the bestselling book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Gramercy Park in June 2015. Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. At the time, the state-of-the-art was a wired 10BaseT ethernet network, so Allcom did the wiring, and we did everything else. At Mobius, we invested in Vytek, another company Len co-founded.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Austin Ventures remained the dominant firm in Austin — and Texas — from the launch of its predecessor fund, Rust Ventures, in 1979 through 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Many of the respondents for Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2015 Asia report – in fact, almost half – comes from India. As such, brands in 2016 will likely be putting more resources towards optimizing around social media networks, so as to help future customers utilize additional avenues in finding them online.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. Her group’s festival brings together her network of over 50 of the world’s leading breathwork practitioners. networking and events organization. And the rest is history!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

I’m also thinking about SXSW, receiving my first batch of networking invites, planning my talk there, and this week having discussed collaborating with Brett Jenks, the CEO of Rare, who is both a customer of data.world, a Henry Crown Fellow, and a great collaborator (he’s attending SXSW for the first time this year). The content is genius.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

The reality today is that capital is more available than ever and entrepreneurs have become more sophisticated, so founders are looking for more than just cash from their venture backers. They’re looking for guidance on building the company, the ability to tap into a VC’s network, and help with potential business opportunities.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them. So we didn’t invest but kept in touch and I tried to be helpful.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We In 2015, Ninkasi brewed 105,000 barrels. See Also: Fear Doesn’t Have to Hold You Back From Networking.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already. So there you have it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

By 2015, the U.S. Gray is also the co-founder of the networking group BOHCA (Business Owners Hemp and Cannabis Association), where she helps industry specific owners grow their business through strategic planning. It took over five years for the small business community to get back on track.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Answering questions on behalf of the Dashtag is Dirk van den Berg , the CMO and co-founder of this startup. The first idea started at the end of 2014, but we incorporated DashTag in October 2015. The diversity, the innovation and the network are just few of the many aspects that inspired us to apply. We’ve got students!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I was featured as an entrepreneur to follow on Oxygen Network and my segment was aired nationwide. I won Beat Bobby Flay on Food Network, one of their youngest contestants ever (I was 25). I founded MehtaFor in 2012, and the company received two national bronze awards in 2015 for Startup of the Year.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle.

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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. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. 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. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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