ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
We had written code for 8 months in our home town of Missoula, Montana before it occurred to us we might need to raise money to launch our startup. FitzGerald is the co-founder and CEO of Submittable , a cloud-based submission platform used by thousands of publishers for accepting and curating digital content. Discuss.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
Neil Blumenthal , the youthful cofounder of Warby Parker, a disruptive company that transformed the conservative eyewear industry by creating affordable, stylish glasses for people across the world, defined a startup as “ a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. “
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Up and Running
OCTOBER 2, 2014
As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. Jason Cohen is the founder of the WPEngine and Smart Bear Software. Pete Sveen is an entrepreneur in Montana. Management. The Naive Optimist | RyanCarson.com.
Up and Running
MAY 10, 2017
Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders. But when I was working as a reporter in 2007, I covered the purchase of a local ski resort in Montana by business mogul Bill Foley. Everyone had a different idea of what should have been in the contract, and no one was happy with the final result.
David Teten
AUGUST 19, 2019
RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 9, 2012
During this time, I met Ethan Austin, the co-founder of GiveForward at Lindzonpalooza. I’ll be running the Missoula Marathon on July 8, 2012 in Missoula, Montana for him. I was blown away by what they are doing and decided to team up with them to do 29 random acts of kindness over the next few years.
A Crowded Space
APRIL 6, 2018
My good friend and cofounder, Jason Chicola, has bought several phenomenal books for me over the years, some because I clearly had a gap in my knowledge that he proactively sought to close, or because he just knew I would greatly enjoy David Halbertsham’s book on baseball, “ Summer of ‘49. Thank you Ed.
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