The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. Co-Up , mobilesuite , Raumstation. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

It’s my hypothesis of why so many founding teams have 3-4 founders. I’ve seen many first-time founders who had fallings out with their co-founders, had lawsuits, had investors bail on them, lost market momentum. I lived and worked in England, France, Italy and Japan and had worked extensively in Germany.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2011

The folks over at Founder2be ( www.founder2be.com ) believe that finding the right co-founders for your fledgling company is actually the most difficult yet crucial in determining the ultimate success of your venture. But he had tremendous difficulty finding the right co-founder and finally gave up on his idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Once the railways are built most countries (except for some odd reason the US) start to build better versions of their infrastructure so you get high-speed railway in Japan, Germany, China, France and now even connecting France & The UK. And LA is the largest retail & trade employment metropolitan zone in the country.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Interview with a crowdSPRING designer … 12 Questions: Meet Ana Grigoriu (Germany) – [link]. Five UX Research Pitfalls from cofounder of Meebo – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link].

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

PostoInAuto’s founder, Olivier Bremer, was terribly talented, but his business was not at a point where he could raise a significant investment. He was intrigued, so I connected him to BlaBlaCar’s founders who convinced him to join the adventure shortly after. Thus it is not only about the money.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Founders are never one-time founders.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2022

Founders: Anita Broellochs & Alex Shirazi. Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. . She has previously co-founded the SVCMS group, an organization hosting the Cultured Meat Symposium and the Cultured Meat and Future Food Show. Company: Balletic Foods. ” – David Beisel.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2014

by Stefan Haubold, Global Managing Director and co-founder of Carmudi. In 2012, he founded ePetWorld, an e-commerce business catering to the pet food segment that grew significantly in Germany. There are certain words every entrepreneur should toss out of his or her dictionary.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The latest funding round led by Active Venture Partners , a European venture capital company with a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, is expected to help the online ticket trading platform drive its international growth. It then expanded to the rest of Europe, the United States as well as the Latin America and Asia markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2012

The partnership provided full scholarship grants – including tuition and expenses – for these young female leaders after receiving nearly 100 applications: • Cynthia Hellen (from NYC) is the founder of GIRLS WHO ROCK , a crowd-pleasing, change-making benefit concert fundraising for girls’ education worldwide.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Presenting in the Entertainment and Content Technology category at 3:30 pm on Sunday, March 11, Sceenic will talk about its Watch Together SaaS solution, which enables media companies to create interactive co-viewing experiences for dispersed viewers. Sceenic is the result of the learnings to do with co-viewing of SayYeah back in 2013-15.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2019

We initially launched in Germany before expanding into the UK and France, and then sold the company to our North American competitor AbeBooks in 2001. My co-founder Hannes Blum and I joined the AbeBooks HQ and co-led the company for many years until we sold it to Amazon in 2008. For example, back then….

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark. Co-founder, Polyvore. Founder, Monsoon and Badmash. Founder, Tout. Founder, Crowdvine. phdc Flip 'n' Learn Shivani Khanna.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Startup founders and investors across the world love The Next Web, and we love them right back. Says Patrick de Laive, co-founder of The Next Web: “Europe needs real entrepreneurs to put itself back on the map again. Vigour and drive, the willingness to transform and develop are what’s required.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. Yet, surprisingly, we continue to come across founders who have made significant mistakes in their early capital raises that we suspect go against their own instincts and jeopardize the foundations of the businesses they are building.

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Christian Holst Christian Holst is the co-author of the research report E-Commerce Checkout Usability , as well as founder of Baymard Institute , where he writes bi-weekly articles about web usability and conversion rate optimization. Made in Germany. Related Articles. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices. Contact us.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

The most common (and emotional) screwing you’ll get in a startup is via your cofounders. First, some examples: A buddy of mine had done the hard work of finding two excellent tech cofounders. It’s not just cofounders. But because they have equity, cofounder screwings are different. A solution at the end.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

However, rather than simply acting as yet-another TV guide, Tank Top TV, uses its proprietary algorithm to recommend content for individual users, as well as using it to push “good” content to the top of the list, Liz Rice, co-founder of Tank Top TV explained. It also has a map of known defibrillator locations.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2010

Just fifteen years after Fred Terman had built Electronic Intelligence and Electronic Warfare systems for bombers over Nazi Germany, Electronic Intelligence satellites were being launched in space to spy on the Soviet Union. Close to 50 Ferret subsatellites were launched as secondary payloads aboard Agena photo reconnaissance satellites.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For example, the best R&D teams for your needs might be based in the Ukraine, whereas the best designers may be in Germany. A globally distributed business model allows you to hire the best talent wherever in the world it is. Transitioning to and managing a globally distributed model isn’t plain sailing.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” Canada, and Germany, speak three languages, and visit Japan and Korea often because of our business in Asia. I love to travel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2017

In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. … This story continues at The Next Web.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

.” I asked him what he thought about the movie and he said, “Well, that would never happen in Germany. In Germany, you’d never have some guy with a crazy idea, who’d plow under his field so he can build something like a ball park.” ” He said, “You just would not. Americans are dreamers.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2018

What started as an e-commerce hobby selling men’s leggings in 2015 quickly turned into a global business with a steady increase in sales and stockists in the US, UK, Australia and Germany.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Stephanie is the founder of Grow Disrupt , a company that designs & produces educational, application-focused events that re-invigorate & inspire entrepreneurs. As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. When I ran Rocket Science our corporate partners were in Japan (Sega), Germany (Bertelsmann) and Italy (Mondadori) and some travel was unavoidable. Our circumstances were unique and your mileage will vary.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We hired people to run the UK and Germany. I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

Eric, do you have any discussions planned for the co-founding dynamics of a successful lean startup? I am the founder of online-marketplace amprice, where we work for four years without substantial founding raising our marketshare from year to year. Today we are number three in Germany, starting now our internationalization.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. I'm very sensitive to it though because I know it can be devastating to a startup, especially a single founder startup. Dying at 70?

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Transformify

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Its founder, Ryan Thorpe, is extremely passionate about the idea. Where I plan to go next is Frankfurt in Germany and then off to Thailand and Bali to work on some really exciting startup projects and connect with co-working spaces from around the world to really push my ideas and dreams further.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Related to that, my post on ‘ Lean Market Research ‘ was a summary of a talk I gave to entrepreneurship students at London Business School and is a good first step when you’re entertaining a startup idea as a founder or investor. Original ideas - did you ever have a thought come to you in the shower or while running?

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