Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The intent of Spark Collider is to help companies match their solutions with Air Force customers who can use them, and in that regard it was a tremendous success. We can and will make it better by working more deliberately to match problems and solutions, as well as bringing in commercial customers and investors.

SBIR 48

SBIR Government Venture Capital Startup 48

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Perfect matches are hard to find in love, friendships, and careers. The only perfect, complete match, is found in math. Fixing inefficiencies, technology, self-exploration and improvement, entrepreneurial collaboration, reading about studies in psychology, and the agility to move around physically and between projects.

Artificial Inteligence 272

Artificial Inteligence Startup Salary Algorithm 272

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Go on an agile diet quickly. More on that in a moment.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. Digital Response.

New Jersey 60

New Jersey Government CTO America 60

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This ability to gather data, build and test MVPs, and then change course is what gives Lean it’s tremendous speed and agility to deliver rapid solutions that are needed and wanted.

Silicon Valley 219

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile 219