Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In fact, he had four development co-founders, built a relationship with Peter Thiel, a top VC who invested early, and enticed Sheryl Sandberg to fill the COO role he sorely needed. With the pervasive internet, and global social networks, it’s easy to be visible and connect to your customers, and they expect it.

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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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Capital Factory Founder, Joshua Baer, introduces 2019’s Texas Startups Roadshow in Austin. Texas Startups Roadshow goes Virtual during Global Entrepreneurship Week Take a statewide virtual tour across the 10th largest economy in the world with the Texas Startups Roadshow , during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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

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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.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

19, 2019: I first met Brett Hurt over 25 years ago. Brett started his career in technology development at a large global management and was a very strong performer. Its mission is to be the global place where those who analyzed and shared data collaborate. Back to Contents Written by Bob Campbell on Sept.

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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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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We Posted by Kajabi on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. In a hot market for educational content, Kajabi stands poised to lead the way to more sustainable businesses that reach a global audience. “We

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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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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Kairos Fellows. “The Summit Fellows.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 23, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. Our vision is for our mana-enhancing online platform to become the leading digital library and online resource for all young Pacific learners globally.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category.

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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. Funding 101 Panel at 3DS Global Roundup w/ myself, Bart Bohn and May Samali.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We argued extensively in our book, Blitzscaling , that these strategies and tactics describe why Silicon Valley Bay Area – which has a population of less than 4 million – generates such a massively disproportionate number of global technology companies. What makes a company Blitzscale-able? High Gross Margins. billion and expenses of $2.9

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2018

and we’re all co-conspirators, witting or unwitting. Vox co-founder and editor-at-large Ezra Klein explained how we’ve designed industries with incentives that make even good people act badly?—?and She believes there’s a worldwide conspiracy for the promotion of mediocrity?—?and and what we can do about it.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

billion in 2019. According to a report by Quantum Tech Partners, approximately $1 billion was invested in the eSports category in 2019, M&A transactions in esports reached $475 million in 2019, across 33 deals. Global games market is projected to grow in revenue and usage. billion in 2020, up from 148.8 billion).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

After completing this project, he contacted his friend Blake Chandlee, president of global business solutions for TikTok/ByteDance. He had previously invested in Tastebud, which Tsai co-founded and served as vice president of product. Joshua Baer, founder of Capital Factory. Brett Hurt, founder of Bazaarvoice and Data.world.

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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. We are thrilled to be able to reach so many people on a global level for the 2021 festival – this scope would have taken us several years as an in-person event.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 12, 2019

-This article was co-authored with my colleague Maxim Filippov and published initially on Tech.eu. Nominations are now open for the 2019 Accel Euroscape, the annual list of the top 100 cloud companies originating from Europe & Israel. You can apply HERE – applications will be open until 6 th September 2019.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

“part of the uniqueness of Linktree is its deceptively simple design” According to one of the co-founders, Alex Zaccaria, Linktree’s site was developed in 6 hours but was bootstrapped and cash flow positive from the very beginning. ” Bootstrapped and Global from Day One: The Story of Linktree.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

On launching in October 2019, the start-up offered flexible cloud-based banking solutions specifically tailored to small and medium-sized institutions. Dylan Taylor co-founded Voyager Holdings in October 2019 in order to provide infrastructure and funding support for start-ups working in the space industry sector.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. In 2019, SendGrid become the first ever company from any accelerator program to IPO, valued at over $1 billion. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

According to Infinite Dial 20, 55 percent—155 million—people in the United States listened to a podcast this year, up from 51 percent in 2019. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. Photo Credit: Sarah Farrant. Easily my top pick.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 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. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. What are your goals for UbiGro in 2019?

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

Elon Musk SXSW 2019 Schedule Activations Some of the best things at SXSW are the technology demonstrations and interactive experiences that expose you to the latest trends and connect you with the most interesting brands and people. Virtual Reality ?—? Augmented Reality ?—? Robotics ?—? Artificial Intelligence ?—? Autonomous ?—? Quantum ?—?

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. Beereaders is one of the many examples of amazing founders and leaders continuing to build the impressive and diverse tech hub that Austin has become.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). How did my co-founders and I apply this lesson at data.world?

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

this year in comparison to the previous one, the third-highest decline seen in recent times behind the global financial crisis’ 7.8% In 2019, about 35% of new hires were based in a different state than the primary company headquarters. drop and dot-com crash’s 15.7% Pitchbook.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The According to Alon Grinshpoon, co-founder and CEO of EchoAR: “3D content is now everywhere. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO. According to the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021–2025 report by PWC, Worldwide VR content revenue surged 31.7% in 2020 over 2019.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas. In just a year, Quicc has rocketed into the global marketplace and now serves video creators in 84 countries. Reach the 25,000 global user mark! and plugged his pick for the Super Bowl.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network. 40 of the 120 startups that joined the Capital Factory Accelerator in 2019 came from Dallas?—?that’s global mentor network Free coworking in Austin and Dallas We’ve learned over the years that Metcalfe’s Law?—?The

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

Tankee won their category at SXSW Pitch 2019: Learn more on Tues, April 16 at Capital Factory The Forrest Four-Cast: April 8, 2019 Who won SXSW 2019? Moreover, the company’s co-founder and CEO Gerald Youngblood was part of a panel titled “ ON-DEMAND: Gaming and The Most Connected Generation, Ever.”

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