BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. Fortune December 2019 Investor Roundtable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In my experience as an advisor to entrepreneurs, business startup founders most often point to a shortage of funds as the primary cause of their startup failure. In fact, this problem is so common among business startups, that is has been tagged with the name “ founder’s syndrome ” or “ founderitis.”

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. or what is first check and our response is that the seed landscape is so confusing, and what founders need is an investor with courage and conviction to lead their rounds and support them from day 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2019

AI assistants in homes are great (Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa) – but to children, they might easily be considered co-parents or teachers. Your role in business is to manage the transition where humans and machines will productively co-exist to keep human customers satisfied. Individual biases must be excluded.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

2019 has been simply an incredible year that has seen new businesses start and some existing businesses shutdown. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners of a word that could represent their business in 2019. I would have to say the best word for our business in 2019 would be ‘consistent.’ 3- GLORY (verb).

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 21, 2020

Austin-based data.world had its best year ever in 2019, said Brett Hurt, CEO, and Co-Founder. 2019 will go down in history as the year data.world found enterprise product-market fit and revenue has taken off in a big way,” Hurt said.

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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.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Mike Bird, CEO and co-founder of Social Garden. Mike Bird is the CEO and co-founder of one of APAC’s fast growing marketing cloud agencies, Social Garden , which specialises in the enterprise property and higher education markets. In fact, up to 40% of us are unsure if our efforts on social are even working.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. For instance, these are the London Business Awards available for the rest of 2019: It really is worth checking whether your particularly business sector offers regional or national awards, as these can be very niche! Every founder has a good story to tell!

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

“Admirer from outside of the cap table” is how I approached Kieran Snyder , Cofounder of Textio. It’s also not an accident that, upon stepping back from being Textio’s CEO, I’ve built a sizable exec coaching practice working largely with early stage founders. How did Textio get smarter about remote teams over time?

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

I now am the CEO and founder of Berri Properties in Asheville and Charlotte, NC. I was even able to spend a month in my favorite UK city in 2019! 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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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” Have they definitely de-risked every part of their business? Not a chance. HW: All fair points.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2024

HW: You’ve been a startup founder as well as an executive at larger tech companies. Even more important, the hiring manager and the founder/CEO should ideally be aware of the implications of having an employee base where a large number of people have never been through the experience of being in a startup.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine founders interviews, we sat down with Lee Thompson and Radha Vyas, the co-founders of Flash Pack , a lifestyle travel company specialising in adventure trips for solo travelers in their 30’s – 40’s. . Flash Pack’s co-founders and husband and wife team, Radha Vyas & Lee Thompson.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

We have had a great 2019 and aim to improve significantly, but that is a challenge in terms of the amount of work involved. My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. In 2019, we focused on expanding our product line at BestSelf Co. Thanks to Cathryn Lavery, BestSelf Co. ! #7-Make

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2018

The Startup Magazine caught up with Tsewang Wangkang and Frederick Szydlowski , co-founders of the Embargo App, an app that helps both venues and patrons enjoy their bar and restaurant experiences with an effective loyalty and customer engagement program. TSM: Who are the founders of Embargo App?

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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. I’ve seen many founders not fully grasp how the venture capital business works and what incentives investors have.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2019

Over time, statistics become less relevant; the links you earn in 2019 could go to another, more recent study in 2020. But it’s authored and signed by Ran Sarig, Datorama CEO and co-founder, which makes it more interesting and engaging than a dry, anonymous press release. Update it for 2019. Share others’ research.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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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 spent $20k on their MVP.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. She is the co-founder and CEO of E webinar. And that became E webinar after that company was sold in 2019. Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. This is John Jantsch.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. In April, 2019, the brewery sold its majority stake to a larger organization. It was updated in 2019. No matter how much you think you know, you will have more to learn.”-

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started. Startup Weekend HackOut is being organized in partnership with Techstars , StartOut and Lesbians Who Tech.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What are your goals for BehaviorMe in 2019? Two of our co-founders had a class together at the University of Florida.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

His books include “ The Change Champion’s Field Guide “, “ Best Practices in Talent Management ” and “ In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance by Creating an Emotionally Connected Workplace ” (McGraw-Hill Education, February 21, 2019). As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

The first time I met Matan, the founder of Melio, he told me that his mission was simple: he wanted to “help small businesses stay in business” by making B2B payments fast, simple and flexible. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With a concentration on providing a more diverse workforce, Capital Factory and Opportunity Hub are partnering in 2019 to converge on the Austin tech scene this spring at SXSW. Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. Graphic provided by Opportunity Hub.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2019

Central Texas startups should enter the Austin A-List Competition before the April 8 deadline The Forrest Four-Cast: March 25, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups came to Austin for SXSW 2019. There is no entry fee to be part of the 2019 Austin A-List Awards. Click here to enter your startup for this competition.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

1- I credit my co-founder. I credit my co-founder Eric Frothingham with coming up with our name. At a practical level – we also wanted to ensure we could find a.com domain (which really isn’t easy in 2019) and avoid the risk of trademark infringements. Photo Credit: Venkates Swaminathan.

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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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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Company is a great fit: they host, advise, mentor, lend a shoulder, and provide a place to founders and teams. These things are right up my alley because it’s what I love doing and align with my goal to be the best advisor to early-stage founders. And all in the heart of NYC!

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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. Key elements: .

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Microsoft launched co-pilot vision , a tool that read your screen and act as a personal helper (US-only). Kol hakavod Dave Waiser and team Accumulator on raising $46M to help founders navigate illiquid wealth with an equity pooling platform ! Since 2019, OnlyFans has paid out at least $21.5B Well done Zohar H.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Noreen Sablotsky is the founder and CEO of Imalac , a revolutionary company in the breastfeeding world. eld of marketing and sales for Ciba- Geigy Pharmaceuticals before co-founding Noven Pharmaceuticals in 1986. Trends in the breastfeeding world are changing for the better. Before Imalac, Noreen began her professional career in the

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

SXSW 2019 may still be many months away, but the time to vote for panels is now! Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna By: Tom Hadfiled, CEO @ M.io

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