David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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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. Like everyone else, we went distributed overnight in March 2020.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. Like 50 Million Americans, thanks to COVID, that day was May 1, 2020. I became frustrated due to the lack of transparent online education aimed at the home-barista community.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Q1 2020 marks Reset ’s two year anniversary, from when we had our first conversation about how we could help distributed teams find affordable space to meet and work. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Old and new friends have reached out to welcome us to their community and share ideas about how we could play an impactful role in this remarkable city and state. Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. Richard was previously the Chief Scientist at Salesforce.

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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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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. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Bitwise was shaping up to have a great 2020.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It builds brand equity with its entrepreneur audience by sharing helpful resources and creating a community of like-minded business builders. HubSpot built brand equity through community-building, blog posts, social media marketing , and its HubSpot Academy. This has produced an army of community advocates.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

I had been in the NY tech scene since 2008/2009 and was just, generally, trying to be helpful to founders, investors, etc. Before becoming a founder, I worked at Aviary for two years and then Dwolla for two years (the latter with my future cofounder Michael Schonfeld ). This just helped speed certain things up.

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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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Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

Building strong business relationships will create a sense of community and help strengthen your brand. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has referred to Warren Buffet as his mentor and credited his success to him. Perhaps you can offer to feature them in your newsletter or recommend their services to your existing customers.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I can now give back to my community in ways that would not have been possible earlier. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awnings Co. ! #7- 14- To solve issues in the beauty community. The plan was to solve those issues not only for us but for others in the beauty community. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? EK: It’s a great question.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2020

Last week I had the opportunity to interview Alex Boghossian, Co-Founder of 301 AD. Alex, along with two other entrepreneurs, established 301 AD, a start-up apparel & clothing brand, in January 2020. Similar to Kickstarter, Indiegogo brings together a community to gain support for their mission. Their mission?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Tuesday, September 15th from 11:00-12 noon MT – Individual Author Showcase: ‘The Startup Community Way’ with Brad Feld. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020. The post Denver Startup Week 2020 appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Finding the right niche, and finding the community that this niche serves, is the way to make a small business a success. Here are a few of the companies doing just that in 2020: Small banking solutions. First Financial Bank, and Coastal Community Bank, and Neocova recently confirmed a series A funding round of $9.5m.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

I’ve broken them into three buckets: A) Voting and census; B) Push media companies to inform Americans accurately; and C) Outreach to your employees and community. Voting in 2020 for many people will take more time than planned, given high turnout, social distancing requirements, and COVID-19 forcing other changes to our electoral processes.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2020

By Or Briga, co-founder and CEO of Novos. 2020 has seen a sudden rise in the number of gamers. People of all ages are playing their favourite video-game titles in 2020 because of the extra time they have. He took his stream very seriously and focused on his community more than the competitive side of gaming.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I’m excited that we have a robust business platform that will allow us to help more people and grow my business exponentially in 2020! Inclusive, I had to remain focused on achieving my goals in 2019 by weeding out distracting people, places, and things since what I would accomplish in 2019 would catapult me in 2020, a new decade.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

My co-founder and I came up with the idea for Cuddle Clones in an entrepreneurial-focused MBA program. I've always felt connected to young women of color and wanted to build a community of women supporting each other. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. So Bondic was born! 2- Honor a special bond.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. When the shelter in place orders began, Alpha found himself living in a tiny Airbnb with his other co-founders, Having just arrived from the UK to do the start up program, YCombinator. Alpha Lee : Right.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

by Ian Pribyl, Founder of StoppingScams.com and author of “ From Nothing: Everything You Need to Profit from Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Blogging, Online Business, e-Commerce and More… Starting With <$100 “ Now more than ever, people all over the world are considering starting an online business.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We feel very fortunate for the support we received from the entire community. I can’t think of a community that has more enthusiasm for building great companies. My cofounder Tom Tichy and I worked together at our former employer to conceive of and launch their first cloud-based software application.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 9, 2020

Why Startup Communities are Essential written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Brad Feld, c0-author of a new book The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars. Like this show?

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

Anecdotally, we at Remagine Ventures are investors in EchoAR , a CDN and CMS for 3D content which has seen the number of developers on its platform grow from 300 in March 2020 to over 10,000 in April 2021, with almost zero marketing effort. The According to Alon Grinshpoon, co-founder and CEO of EchoAR: “3D content is now everywhere.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

In November 2020, Appsflyer announced a $210 million round led by Salesforce Ventures at over $2 billion valuation. If you’re inventing a category, marketing needs to come really early on, because market education and brand / community building is critical for business success. VC Cafe: There’s a rise in community led startups.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The year 2020 can’t end quickly enough for most small business owners. It took over five years for the small business community to get back on track. Many of them are finding new opportunities by solving problems that didn’t exist, or weren’t priorities, at the start of 2020. by Andi Gray, president of Strategy Leaders.

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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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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 building a community. Our Festival started as an in-person event in Cabo last February 2020. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

When it became clear that waiting for government funding and support would take weeks, if not months, Lenore instead looked to her community for both, using her experience with the layoffs and her expertise as a small business owner to solve two of the massive problems crashing over our society.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

As the CEO of Hera Hub , the global co-working space, Felena recognized an opportunity to build a female-focused coworking space largely because she couldn’t find one that catered to her needs. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

by Todd Connor, founder of Bunker Labs. The economic devastation of 2020 speaks for itself: the end of Q2 saw the highest ever recorded drop in GDP, 50 million people out of work, 12% decline in consumer spending and trillions of dollars added to the national balance sheet to try and steady us during this unprecedented time.

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