Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. how to evolve our management team. Experience.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2016

By Dan Bochichio, co-founder of Bocain Designs. It’s 2016, and just about everyone either does business online or uses the internet as a tool to discover, rate and engage with businesses they rely upon. Just keep in mind that effectively managing your business is just as important as your design skills.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

In 2013, a Pew Research Center study revealed some sobering insights into the reasons why 34 percent of millennial women weren’t interested in becoming a boss or top manager. The figures are more inspiring today: The 2016 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report says “there are now 11.3 trillion in revenues.” Here are some suggestions.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

He was completing his undergraduate studies with a major in Management Information Systems at the University of Texas and was aspiring to a management consulting position. Brett started his career in technology development at a large global management and was a very strong performer. I was one of his interviewers.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield. More exciting, industry-leading companies. Thought leadership originating in Boston.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2015

By Al Fialkovich, Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Denver. From a basic economic standpoint this means two things for business owners planning on selling in that market after 2016: Sale prices will go down. Thinking of selling your business in the next five years? Don’t wait.

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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. Alternative Capital. “

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2016, an estimated 100 million eligible voters did not cast a vote. Stuart Williams, Chairman and Founder of In Place Impact , observes, “The most important politics in any country are local politics, hence our mayors are the most important politicians we have.” However, Morris Pearl, former managing director at BlackRock, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 20, 2016

Guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, editorial director of Lean Startup Co. Presentations in 2016 will be shorter but no less dynamic. It has been a great tool for me and my team to make real transformation.” - Freyja Balmer, Director of Product Management, Food.com at Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. “[I It was] nice to be needed.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program. At that time, they were three hyper-focused engineers with Dell, Intel, and Samsung backgrounds inspired by the computational speed and scale possibilities of co-processors like GPUs and FPGAs.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

2016 is just 30 days away. And if you want to make 2016 your best year ever, you need to start planning now. and I’m hosting it with Growthink's co-Founder and President, Dave Lavinsky. 
 You can expect to hear a positive, motivating message loaded with golden nuggets to make 2016 an incredible year.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dan Brown, the inventor of Bionic Wrench and founder of Logger Head Tools, is a prime example. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. Between 2011 and 2016, leading banks like JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America made 947,907 transactions for patent loans.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

A startup founder needs to never lose sight of the vision, but be extremely adaptable to pretty much everything else. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. And realizing your vision as a founder takes equal parts determination and flexibility. Lots of people have visions.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Millennium Management and Balyasny Asset Management were his employers at some point. This year, Goldman Sachs agreed to give his company $250 million in investments to manage. Carlson put $4 million into it. Jason Guss.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

In March 2016, Rosanne Hortensius left the Netherlands to launch online couponing platform Saleduck in Southeast Asia. As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

The proportion of US workers earning a living on a “freelance” basis was 34 percent in 2016, and the gig economy is expected to grow enough to cause that number to rise to 43 percent by 2020. Mark Zuckerberg was a well-connected individual and actually received funding from PayPal’s co-founder very early in Facebook’s existence.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 6, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Charlie Schloegel, General Manager of the Property Solutions division and Co-Owner of Schloegel Design Remodel. He earned his Universal Design Certified Professional designation and RRP certification in 2012 and became a Certified Remodeler in 2016.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a bad year for some and for some it was a great year. In the last few days of 2016, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1 I officially incorporated my culinary consulting business January 2016 after freelancing in the industry for 2 years.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. in 2016, as an advanced e-mobility and automotive technology company with the mission to develop world-class, emotionally-compelling vehicles featuring the most forward-thinking automotive technologies in existence. Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2-

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Jiawei graduated from Tsinghua University and prior to Ling Technology, he managed the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group at Baidu Research Institute of Deep Learning (IDL), and also worked at Microsoft Research. The following year Jiawei was honored as one of the Top 35 Innovators Under 35 in the World in 2016 by MIT Technology Review.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

by Alex Campbell, Managing Director, Asia, ‎ Xero. Of the 530 Singapore startups surveyed in 2016, a quarter recorded no revenue at all while 29 percent generate revenues but were spending more money than they earned. percent per annum – than less innovative firms. Have a target market and be consistent in your approach towards it.”.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

As a female entrepreneur and cofounder of a business, I would like to see more investment into technology companies that support women, as most women make 80% of buying decisions. We have so many organizations that touch the home, yet in order to manage and run my home, I need to touch so many different types of companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. They could try to figure out how to do logistics, warehouse tracking, photo-processing and route management. Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. At their scale this would be hard but doable. Validate data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

By default, these domains are totally intermingled, which will lead you to manage both poorly. Founders generally need more focus on the market sizing, volume projections, cost details and margin expectations to balance the optimism of their passion for the idea. Define a business entity early to manage taxes and intellectual property.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

I love mentoring college students and new business owners, as well as helping existing entrepreneurs learn better ways to manage their company. But there weren’t any affordable systems to manage inventory and orders many locations. Learning and mentoring go hand-in-hand and I love what I do because of it. 6- Freedom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 4, 2017

percent growth in 2016. Like Paul Graham , founder of Y-Combinator, said a long time ago, I see startups succeed or fail every day based primarily on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, but as a predictor of success it’s a rounding error compared to the founders. Look in the mirror.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

According to the 2016 Kauffman Growth Entrepreneurship Index , Austin grew its startups faster than every city except Washington, D.C., Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ]. Nearly every startup I have spoken to over the years – including some where I’m a co-investor – talks positively about the support they’ve gotten from A16Z.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2017

According to Edison Research , as of 2016, 21% of Americans 12 or older have listed to a podcast, up from 12% in 2013. In 2016, 64% people, 12 and over say they “most often” listen to podcast on their mobile device. that are led by women, POC, and LGBT founders. Up from 55% in 2015.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

Jamie Potter is founder of Flexciton, a company that is breaking into the new potential offered by artificial intelligence and using it at that to take a crack at the persistent problem of environment waste and emissions. Using his financial background working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, he launched All Shades Covered in 2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Other entrepreneurs don’t even realize that they badly need a co-founder or team leader who can complement their own skills. How you manage your “personal brand” on the Internet is indicative of an ability to manage a startup brand later. Update yourself on their history, founder backgrounds, and competitors.

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