A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 4, 2011

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. At the same time, I personally observed at the startup incubator of Telecom ParisTech the impact of one co-founder leaving his company after 18 months. He has a personal blog about cloud computing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. This is especially true for those teams or individuals that become a part of an accelerator or incubator program.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Eric Ries will interview him.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 4, 2013

By Kristen Tischhauser Special to Silicon Hills News Julian Frachtman is the founder of Gush, which was incubated within Austin-based Jutera Labs, which he also cofounded. The other Jutera Labs founders are Surojit Niyogi and Adam Salamon. Austin Technology'

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If these are the kinds of questions you have, the book “ Start-Up Guide for the Technopreneur, + Website: Financial Planning, Decision Making and Negotiating from Incubation to Exit ” is likely to be of help. So you find yourself asking, “But why aren’t they investing in me “?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. With the new rapid prototyping tools, products can be physically built for analysis, rather than just conceptualized.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Though, this article is not a reflection on the fundamentals of unicorns—rather, I am using them as a proxy for situations in which founders have executed on big ideas. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Key Insights. Red Ventures (HBS, Wharton).

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The discounts?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2014

When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. I knew that there were issues with my potential partner, but I also knew that the company would grow at a slower pace if I had to start the co-founder search from back at square one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Then branch out to local business groups.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I raised money and traded equity, but with my venture, I had to make one of the toughest decisions, to build it with some assistance of co-founders. Find the right co-founders. Having co-founders provides a strategy to avoid funding your start-up, with the help of investor’s money.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

When I left Intuit in 2015, I was VP of Innovation and led Intuit Labs, Intuit’s internal incubator. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started. With this in mind, we started Intuit’s Unstructured Time program in 2005, where employees could spend 10% working on their own projects.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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SiliconHills

JULY 6, 2013

A few years ago, Bart Bohn co-founded Ravel, a big data analytics firm. Before that Bohn served as director of wireless and information technology at the Austin Technology Incubator from 2007 to 2011. The post Spotlight on Bart Bohn, co-founder of AuManil in Austin appeared first on SiliconHills. He’s been [.]

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In two of these three phases – the first and third – volumes of helpful information and numerous organizations are readily available to help guide and support founders of startups. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. Accelerators, incubators, and co-working spaces have proliferated in Cambridge and Boston.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2016

So you’ve decided to enlist a technology incubator to help your new business get off the ground. You have a great idea and a strong business plan, and an incubator is just the partner you need at this stage. Luckily, there are a good number of incubators now available to burgeoning entrepreneurs. Not all incubators are the same.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 3, 2021

What I truly appreciate about Mr. Masiyiwa is that he is always striving to be better and he has great incubators for young African entrepreneurs. Rossanna Ceccato is the founder of Redress, a disruptive clothing platform that helps women renew and refresh their wardrobes through dress swaps. 2- Jeff Bezos. Photo Credit: John Li.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. Attract a co-founder and key team members. Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Media incubator ESPACIO , has announced its acquisition of the tech news publication 150sec – the renowned online magazine focused on entrepreneurship and tech in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Adrian Pica Co-founder of 150sec. Conrad Egusa- Founder and CEO of ESPACIO. .”

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. Niesh worked with ecentre, the startup business incubator at Massey University, as part of the Sprint Launch programme, focusing on growth through customer acquisition.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. He has since gone on to cofound Factom (a well-known crypto project who’s tokens are worth more than $150 million), where he serves as Chairman today. The fund returned ~8x in 24 months. Factom, Inc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. Led by CEO Johanna Mikkola and Co-founder Juha Mikkola, Wyncode has utilized the Endeavor Miami mentors and advisors for access to markets and capital.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

This tweet by Box founder Aaron Levie sums up how people tend to react to ideas: The incubation period: the forgotten step to great ideas. Incubation (the problem enters your unconscious mind and nothing appears to be happening externally). Many brainstorming sessions are thought of as an end goal?—?that

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. The best ones I have seen are about twenty pages, and cover all the key business issues, as well as your own background and experience, as well as co-founders and key team members.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. I am a homeowner but my co-founder (Chad Johnson) is a renter, and one day we got talking about ways to assist renters in their journey to become homeowners. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder. Hannah Hunt – Cofounder. Matthew Jackson – EHF Fellow & Cofounder. Jenni Matheson – Cofounder. Roar Collective.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

He was voted one of the Top 10 Organizational Culture Gurus in the world and is CEO and founder of the Best Practice Institute. The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. As co-founder of Rackspace, he got deeply involved. What is the Best Practice Institute? What is its mission?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Recently, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator , a program created to incubate startups building the next generation of innovative experiences for the Kinect. Some of the mentors, in addition to me, include: Jeff Powers, Founder, Occipital, Andrew Tschesnok, Founder, Organic Motion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. Attract a co-founder and key team members. Most universities have a file of patents from project work that they are willing to license to any entrepreneur for business commercialization, with little or no cost up front.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 20, 2014

For Will von Bernuth, co-founder of Block Island Organics, a family-run sun care startup, the flexible schedule allows him to help his parents. There are some monetary incentives to starting a business as well, says Fernando Campos, co-founder of Topwick, a members-only journal site that offers insider pricing on certain brands.

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