Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Will Bachman.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. 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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Ethereum took off in 2017, we began taking Ethereum profits and investing in more speculative crypto protocols. We held our first close on August 1, 2017. Fund Details We identify the most promising use cases for cryptoassets and within those use cases we vet the teams, projects, and communities. Factom, Inc. Factom, Inc.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. 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.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. September 2017. An eponymous book (e.g. March 2016.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

do they care about driving users to a personal website that doesn’t add to their community size or engagement? or would they rather engage with their fans/community on the platforms themselves? I believe we will continue to see more innovation in the tools available for creators to build and engage their communities.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. Gender diversity in entrepreneurship has been a high-visibility topic of late, in both the media and venture community.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

My story of transitioning from a Columbia MBA to a chef & consultant was featured on The Huffington Post (in both written + video format), Bustle, Brit + Co, Swaay Media and the print books *Knives and Ink* (Bloomsbury) and *Amazing Women Entrepreneurs* (due March 2017). I was granted a James Beard Foundation fellowship.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2018

by April Zimmerman Katz, president of the Zimmerman Companies and co-founder of Versa LLC. The shared office space concept has risen steadily in popularity over the past decade, and by 2020 more than 26,000 co-working spaces will be in use globally, according to Small Business Labs, which tracks trends in small businesses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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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. Dino and I Co-Founded Good Dog Labs, with the vision of changing how the Identity and Access Management industry looks at solving major problems in addition to having a keen mission of family first.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Intro to the Austin EdTech Startup Scene Come meet Sean Duffy , founder of EdTech Austin and let him tell about everything going on in EdTech in Austin! Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

According to Glossier co-founder Emily Weiss , “one of the things that we really rely on is our customers as co-creators and sort of co-conspirators of our company.” ” If your company isn’t ready to run its own online community, there are many other ways to bring customers into the fold.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

In under 3 years we have been able to scale our business to 7+ figures, we started our food truck manufacturing company Dec of 2017, Trailer King Builders, and were on a mission to help entrepreneurs become financially independent with their foodtruck. After years of consistent hard work, we now have a strong community of 50,000 readers.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. I can have a wider reach and a higher volume of 30 minute meetings with founders.”.

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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. Thanks to Justin Breen, BrEpic Communications LLC ! #13-

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. To have the future we wanted, we needed to shift away from monetizing our open-data community and toward enterprise sales.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

My co-founder and I have both been professional matchmakers for over 20 years each when we started our business. I recognized a way to help my community and the globe as a whole, which inspired me to start advising on divorce-related issues. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Amber Lee.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled. Image source.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

If you are interested in impact investing, I encourage you to join the Impact Finance Center (IFC) and presenting funders The Anschutz Foundation, Zoma Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation , Colorado Health Foundation , and Gary Community Investments at CO Impact Days 2017 , Nov 15-17, in Denver, Colorado.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen.

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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. We’d love to connect with sport-minded investors and advisors and possible influencers for our community. He is pictured above on left (in blue shirt). What does DashTag hope to accomplish in 2018? We’ve got students!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. Our CTO and Co-founder Majd Chaaya and colleague Hella Bennani are representing us there at the end of January. The founders?—?Alex I joined in March 2017.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The last 2 years have seen exciting developments within our community, but we humbly admit that we’ve also learned some hard lessons. 2019 Accelerator Statistics We recruited 28 startups with female founders, which is a 3x increase from 2017. We recruited 15 startups with Black founders, which is nearly a 2x increase from 2017.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The last 2 years have seen exciting developments within our community, but we humbly admit that we’ve also learned some hard lessons. 2019 Accelerator Statistics We recruited 28 startups with female founders, which is a 3x increase from 2017. We recruited 15 startups with Black founders, which is nearly a 2x increase from 2017.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Meet some of the incredible female entrepreneurs who have volunteered to work with the girls in Latinitas by serving as mentors, career presenters, and judges at our 2017 Startup Chica Conference. In 2017, Rocheli Patisserie received Austin Woman Magazine’s 2017 Business Way Award for Rising Stars.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Today we send out an inspiring notice about a young leader in the startup community who is truly making a difference with his high energy in bridging startups with investors and selfless pursuit of innovative solutions. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017. We wish him all the best and continued success.”

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. Those are your five stakeholders.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt.

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