Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Silicon Valley gets significant attention for its role in producing tech startups that often go on to see massive, international success. In the past decade, hundreds of interesting, innovative tech companies have emerged in and around Israel—and they’re worth learning from.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Since launching in Atlanta in 2015, it has sold over 100 homes with an average of 18 days on the market (3x faster vs. market average) for more than 98% of the recommended list price. One Properly client said it best (and there are many more glowing reviews ): “We had a great experience selling our home with Properly.

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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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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

As the holiday season is behind us and 2015 is firmly underway, we wanted to take a moment to both announce and celebrate the collection of top entrepreneurs who have agreed to return as our Entrepreneur Advisors. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. the folks ?listed

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

And these may be particularly important for those wanting to become tech entrepreneurs as, arguably, a college degree might not be the best preparation. Internships, Mentorships, and Tech Startups. As a journalism student, Scoble took an internship with Fawcette Technical Publications, which was itself a startup at the time. "If

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Most technical entrepreneurs focus hard on building an innovative product, but forget that an elegant solution doesn’t automatically translate into a successful business. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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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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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technology makes a lot of things in business more efficient and engaging, especially HR, where you can lost in stacks of papers for days if you don’t stay on top of organization. There are many ways to use technology in HR, recruiting process to organization. by Jessica Thiefels, owner of Honest Body Fitness. are engaged?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2018

“I didn’t even know who Mark Zuckerberg was back in October 2015. Eighteen months later, I’m keynoting at conferences and serving clients in London, Sydney, Singapore, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Vancouver, and 50 other cities,” says Logan Young, the co-founder of BlitzMetrics, a Facebook dashboard and advertising company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

As an advisor to startups, I often get asked what to look for in an ideal co-founder or business partner. Many of the entrepreneurs I meet prefer to focus on the technology, so they desperately need a people-oriented partner for balance. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/08/2015.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

According to The Economist forecast for 2015, ASEAN will add USD 335 billion and become the fourth largest economy in the world. 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. Economic Watch, Singapore’s Economic Outlook for 2015.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

We couldnt be more excited to be leading this new round of capital again with Canaan Partners and including Heavybit, FundFire, and Peter Mckay (Co-CEO of Veeam) (see Techcrunch for more coverage). 2017 where it was due to unpatched open source vulnerabilities, you can see why the interest in solutions like Snyks are gaining rapid adoption.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/20/2015.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

3- Due to financial difficulties in my family. I started my business when I was forced to drop out of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA due to financial difficulties in my family. 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.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

I did a lot of technical interviewing. We noticed a clear need for an evolution of wallet styles and technologies and ran with it. 4- Due to lack representation in the skincare industry. The traditional thinking of “one solution fits all” is not today’s tech-driven business believes in. Photo Credit: David Moise.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 21, 2024

User acquisition (UA) and ad targeting have become increasingly difficult, due to rising costs, stricter privacy regulations, and increasingly fragmented audiences. Discord goes from social layer to Gaming Destination Discord actually started as a gaming studio in 2012 by its co-founder and CEO Jason Citron.

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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. How do you think evolving and/or new online marketing technologies and processes will change inbound marketing in the coming year?

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

We couldn’t be more excited to be leading this new round of capital again with Canaan Partners and including Heavybit, FundFire, and Peter Mckay (Co-CEO of Veeam) (see Techcrunch for more coverage). Snyk investor deck late 2015 short from Ed Sim. Founder-market fit ?—?GuyPod Repeat founders ?—?we which was sold to Akamai.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled workforces that can support tech startups. . In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. Boulder, CO. Austin has become quite a hotspot.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

This post originally appeared in TechCrunch back in 2015, written by our co-founder and managing partner Erik Rannala. We believe the message applies as much today as it did in 2015 when it was published. --. That sounds absurd, but founders convince themselves that they’ve hired the right people at the right moment.

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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. Bigfoot Capital.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. Jonathan leads the company’s sales and operations (his wife and cofounder, Liping, is the creative force behind Kidorable’s success). Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. Show Quotes .

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The Next Web

JUNE 21, 2015

As a PR Pro, it’s hard to find a book that gives you new advice, but Jason’s unique perspective as an actual former tech reporter gives you an inside look that you won’t find from PR books written by the pros. The book should be a must-read for any startup founder considering hiring remote employees, as well as anyone who works remotely.

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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. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 17, 2014

For anyone in the tech startup world, it’s a must read. Like my memory of Hackoff , the book has all kinds of startup details in it, like co-founder struggles and a great presentation of the angel investor vs. VC dilemma. I eagerly await the second installment, promised for early 2015. The Circle.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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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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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

There are now many metro areas with growing infrastructure and increasingly skilled work forces that can support tech startups. In large part due to the University of Texas at Austin and other universities’ influence, Austin is known for having an educated workforce. The city is renowned as a center for tech entrepreneurship.

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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. Moreso, she writes about building inclusivity into software design, and her experience as a Latina in Tech.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

It’s also been said that by 2015, 90% of all web video consumption will be by 18-34 year olds - a generation with tremendous online shopping power. Or w hat if none of the other key players in their industry use explainer videos, so comparison shoppers watch simply due to the novelty of it all? It’s not the technology.

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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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