Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. Very few founder CEOs go into the job ever expecting to give up their seat. It’s your baby. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Starbucks, which is now a common coffee hangout place all over the United States, has an interesting owner.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

by Kenneth Coats, founder of eKnowID. Doing a background check on a potential partner or co-founder, while unorthodox, could bring to light small issues that could be resolved with a bit of honest dialogue. In the past few years, big names, including Yahoo! Now, don’t get me wrong: Most people don’t lie on their résumés.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Six years later, in 1886, her parents called upon Anne Sullivan, an experienced teacher of the blind, to help a seven-year old Helen learn to communicate in terms of names and letters. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

by Andrea Martins, co-founder of GreenSocks. He may have been named by Silicon Valley thought leader Paul Graham as one of the five most interesting startup founders since 1979, but Sam’s curious penchant for wearing t-shirts over long-sleeve shirts suggests that he’s definitely too young for me.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 3, 2011

Post on the White House blog titled Making It Easier for Immigrants to Start Companies in the United States by the Director of U.S. New guidelines on how entrepreneurs can satisfy the employer-employee relationship requirement for an H-1B visa (see the second-to-last question about sole owners).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

Walmart asks its employees to purchase their own uniforms. This year, Walmart employees are required to purchase new clothing to be able to work in the stores. What does that mean for those employees? When or if your company makes a mistake and customers or employees are telling you they want change, listen.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My visit took place courtesy of the Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative (YTILI), a State Department program implemented by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 However, prices are rocketing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Of course, there’s no one-fits-all approach to figuring out what niche you’re best served to help—and the variety of responses we got from real estate agents across the United States is proof of that. Naturally, this differs slightly from state to state, so make sure to check in with your own state about regulations and rules.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. Now, I have employees, a production studio and we are very busy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Charles is the co-author of the bestselling book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We make a point of keeping our records updated in the major data-trackers tracking the VC industry, e.g., CB Insights , Crunchbase , Dow Jones , Mattermark , Palico , Preqin , Pitchbook , and ThomsonReuters , since they are a source of data to LPs and to potential co-investors interested in us. . Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Research Triangle Park is one of the oldest and largest research parks in the United States. Created in the 1950s, the RTP development now spans over 7000 acres and is home to over 170 companies and some 42,000 full-time employees. There are three major universities in the area, each with a robust entrepreneurial organization.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Transcript of Creating a Brand Name That Sticks written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is a brand strategist speaker, founder of Sticky Branding and the author of Brand New Name: A Proven, Step-by-Step Process to Create an Unforgettable Brand Name. You know my brand name is Duct Tape Marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2022

More than 500,000 companies are created annually in the United States, but less than 1,000 per year may be of interest to venture capitalists. To do this, startup founders need to analyze how many potential customers the product has, how much they can pay, and how their number changes over time. Deep Market Analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. Lenore Estrada : Hi, my name is Lenore Estrada. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal. Prior to COVID, I was and still am the founder and owner of Three Babes Bakeshop, a small bakery business here in San Francisco.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 7, 2020

Meanwhile, the United States has already lost more lives to the disease than the entire Vietnam War and unemployment is at its highest level since the Great Depression. Black swan is a light name for a global industry destroying asteroid. Matters of business can seem inconsequential compared to tragedy at this scale.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab. Who’s next?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN. Order Here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. If you are an immigrant founder who has helped build a company that has created jobs in the US, we need you to tell your story. This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley.

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www.ericsink.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Sometimes all our indicators are positive, but the employee just doesnt work out. On the other side of the coin, sometimes we miss out on a great employee because our indicators steered us away. that the Tech-Ed speakers list had more people named Brian than women. We look at past experience. We look at educational background.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Our biannual reviews are done internally by management; they are not intended as a way to give employees grades or gold stars. Benefits Benefits are given equally to all full-time employees. (We

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Were helping the second-largest city in the United States become a veritable tech center," Google says on its website, in trying to attract employees for sales and engineering positions. Now hes the co-founder of TextPlus, which makes a popular app for making free texts and phone calls on smartphones.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Yes, the country north of the 49th parallel may have 1/10th the population of the United States , but when it comes down to pure entrepreneurship it punches far above its weight class. Edmonton also has a number of high-quality post-secondary schools that continually add many highly-skilled employees to the job market.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This post is by Scott Edward Walker , the firm's founder and CEO. It is here where my father began his 15-year journey from entry-level engineer at Western Union to founder and CEO of Walker Telecommunications Corporation , a NASDAQ-listed public company. If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

He's a co-founder and chairman of Work Better Now, which provides talent from Latin America for US based businesses. Rob (07:06): Yeah, so it starts first with what's going on here in the United States, and this applies to Canada as far as we can tell as well. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Rob Levin.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 16, 2015

Matt Rissell, co-founder and CEO of TSheets, joins Episode 19 of the Profit First Podcast. Matt dives into how time tracking protects employees and helps employers maximize their profitability. Tracking time is important for accuracy, protection of the employee and the employer. Show Summary.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2015

I’m so tired of the nature of the legal system in the United States where bullying, intimidation and mobster-like shake-downs are becoming prevalent. I often speak about co-founder fighting and how this ends in lawsuits but this has become much more prevalent. *. Lawsuits. Lawsuits are on the rise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. He also has strongly held ideas about structuring a company to institutionalize these intentions to make sure the next leader, future employees, and the next board will be true to that philosophy. 6,000, 7,000 employees.

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