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SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt

Austin Startup

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Just a minor nitpicky point: San Jose is actually much larger than SF, in both population and land area.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: How Do You Bootstrap Freemium Ventures?

ReadWriteStart

During this week's roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. How do you find co-founders who are willing to work for 18 months without getting paid? Irit, however, needs to think through some of the details of the business model, pricing model, and positioning.

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ProfessorVC: Can you start a company on $10K?

Professor VC

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. Also, if it turns out he neglected his girlfriend too much while starting up the company, hell certainly have the opportunity to meet plenty of co-eds as he hands out flyers for the site on campus. Steve Bennet.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan.

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Personalized Search

BeyondVC

The business model was to be an “arms merchant” to all of the major search engines like AOL and Yahoo. As Jim Pitkow, co-founder of Outride says in a San Jose Mercury News article : “That’s good because the search engine doesn’t have to try hard to infer anything from the user’s behavior.

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ProfessorVC: Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

Professor VC

According to the Business Insider, he was actually arrested in a different place and time. Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit.