Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2023

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. Bacharach, Cornell Professor and cofounder of the Bacharach Leadership Group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. Bacharach, Cornell Professor and cofounder of the Bacharach Leadership Group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2016

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent . It’s here to stay and will be a key differentiator for organizations who want to build the best teams with the best talent from around the world. With the continuous advances in technology, it’s easier than ever for businesses to get work done remotely.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. Be Specific.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Effective Ways To Differentiate And Scale Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Debbie is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency focused exclusively on the senior housing and care industry. Marketing Podcast with Debbie Howard.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. We can’t wait to see what the next few years bring.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Howard is the co-founder and CEO of Senior Living SMART, a full-service marketing agency serving the senior housing industry. Key Takeaways The senior living industry is booming: With the aging population driving demand, senior living marketers must differentiate themselves from the crowded market. This is John Jance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 246

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

However, they tend to be extremely difficult to navigate especially if you do not have a cofounder from and/or experience in that country. Hence, a Singaporean founder will find it easier to execute in the 3rd key market that is the MENASSEA region (Middle East, North Africa and South/Southeast Asia). MENASSEA includes countries below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Both of his co-founders worked with him previously and both worked on ad management platforms.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. We were discussing both sides of the table and the relationship between founders and VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise. We can do better.

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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. HW: nerd processor, your weekly newsletter , is great!

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. You need a big differentiator in these arenas. A strong team has one or more executives who have run a startup before in the current business domain.

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New York City Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 202

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2023

Recently, the medical diagnostics company Neko Health, which was co-founded by Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, was successful in acquiring €60 million ($65.4 Neko Health is eager to differentiate itself from infamous scandals in the health technology industry like the one involving Theranos. million) in funding from venture capitalists.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Ryan: C-H-E-X-T.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. High LTV can usually be found in transactional or subscription businesses.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Aaron is the CEO and Co-founder of Leadferno, a business and text messaging platform to close more leads faster. 4:51] How are you trying with lead for an ode to differentiate what you’re offering from chatbots? [6:06] Tapping Into The Power of SMS Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. In the end I know the only true differentiator in venture capital is the company you keep. It’s the founders who are willing to let you join their boards. It’s the people who want to work with you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. Bacharach, Cornell Professor and cofounder of the Bacharach Leadership Group.

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Technical Cofounder Founder Cofounder Mobile 168

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Another affinity-based co-working space? And it’s amazed me how many times I’ve seen two or more entirely separate groups of founders?—?without Rather than just a harmless, misplaced attitude, this copycat fallacy can be a detriment to seed stage founders for two reasons. Another d2c gourmet pet food company ?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. So, with that in mind, I’d like to share six key ways to increase your success with investors: Make Sure You Actually Have a Differentiator. Lihi Pinto Fryman is the CMO and one of the co-founders of Syte. Because that’s exactly what it is.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2023

Zeev Farbman, CEO and co-founder of Lightricks, believes that “With video-to-video AI capabilities, soon nearly everyone will have the ability to create Hollywood level video productions on their phone,” he said via a press release. Lightricks’s announcement came with two potentially differentiating aspects.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. On this journey, we benchmarked 1,500 IT organization to understand what differentiated the highest performing organizations and allowed them to do what the others only dreamed of.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. “The way we differentiate ourselves is that we’re much more than a platform. ” The founders of WeDidIt saw an opportunity and a need, and put aside the fears everyone who’s ever struck out on their own faces. And they’re happy they did it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. As as I’ve said before, I believe that getting things done is one of the major things that differentiates successful entrepreneurs from just reasonable ones. I was resolute. I was resolute.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Startup Intelligence caught up with co-founders Zohar Dayan (CEO) and Yotam Cohen (VP Business Development) to find out more. Wibbitz was started in response to what its founders observed as a change in the way people consume content on the web today. Co-founders Zohar and Yotam are both business graduates from IDC Herzliya.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

A key collective intelligence differentiator is social perceptiveness: team members’ ability to ‘read the mind of others in their eyes.’ Scott Cook, cofounder of Intuit, and Smith emphasized humility and empathy in their innovation culture and processes. Critical to small team performance is collective intelligence.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How to differentiate yourself in a crowded market (and when perhaps you shouldn’t try). How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This is the basis of an effective differentiation strategy. The audience size identified is encouragingly large, and the frequently used phrases and words (brick mortar, retail, founder) align directly with our target audience. Take SparkToro’s Co-founder, Rand Fishkin. Developing a social media following. Image source.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

by Lihi Pinto Fryman, Co-Founder and CMO of Syte. So, with that in mind, I’d like to share six key ways to increase your success with investors: Make Sure You Actually Have a Differentiator. Lihi Pinto Fryman is the CMO and one of the co-founders of Syte. Because that’s exactly what it is.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

Look to build solutions with IPA when you need a highly tailored customer journey or process to differentiate from your competition. then the process technologies of IPA are the how it works part of digital transformation of a business.

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