Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For starters they has asked him to hire a CEO (Hamet was a first timer) and that person lived in Seattle even though NextMedium was based in LA. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I believe investors had forced him to do this.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. So he picked up Murray.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. The Kauffman Index recently named Miami the second most entrepreneurial city in the U.S., with their startups growing by 81.2

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell).

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Last year around the time PIE was starting, David Cohen , cofounder of TechStars , shared the TechStars Mentor Manifesto. million in funding (0) Accelerator application trifecta: TechStars Seattle, Portland Seed Fund, and PIE currently accepting submissions (0) You got your Vizify in my Twitter. Name (required). 3 Comments.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . WeWork, Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood. My office at WeWork in Seattle is cool, energizing and complete. Your day is finally here.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2011

When I read (well – skimmed) the latest round of noise about “how founders behave&# , possibly stoked by Paul Allen’s new book on the origins of Microsoft along with his 60 Minutes appearance, I was annoyed, but I couldn’t figure out exactly why. at this point and there is founder drama in many of them.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2019

named one of Canada’s best managed companies. Manny Medina , cofounder and CEO of Outreach , was a winner of a 2019 Executive Excellence award , which recognizes leaders in Seattle-based companies. You can read the press release here. Clio was (once again!) Congratulations for this well-deserved honor! .

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The good thing about the Apple logo is that it tells the brand name without having to spell it. Walter Issacson’s autobiography of Steve Jobs reveals why Steve choose the name Apple. As shared by the Cult of Mac , On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” It is probably just that, a myth.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2016

She’s also CEO and co-founder of a thriving, Seattle-based consultancy, PeopleFirm , one of Washington State’s fastest-growing businesses. Consulting Magazine twice has named her one of the top consultants in the U.S.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Scarborough, the co-founder of Tourism Currents, will speak at the Austin Innotech eMarketing Summit Oct. Sheila: Google the name of your destination/lodging/attraction and look not just at the “Everything&# results, but also results from Images, Videos, Blogs, Updates (Twitter) and Discussions (forums.). 28 at 1 p.m.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

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 I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

Indiegogo founder Slava Rubin says , Too many entrepreneurs spend months locked away, creating the “perfect” business plan with scenario planning and detailed financial projections. Basecamp founder Jason Fried talked about this at length in his book Getting Real : Details reveal themselves as you use what you’re building.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. In fact, Toronto was named one of the world’s most innovative cities. Google has a sizable presence in Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo area.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Over the past decade, crowdspring has helped many Canadian startups with everything from naming their business , to logo design , packaging design , product design and more. In fact, Toronto was named one of the world’s most innovative cities. Google has a sizable presence in Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo area.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

My name is Dmitri Oster. I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco.

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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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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Ashish Soni, a professor at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, and the executive director of its Digital Innovation lab, says that in the past many of his graduates would have gone directly to Seattle or San Francisco, but now theyre staying put, getting hired by local start-ups. Why cant we just be Los Angeles?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Top Hat was named the 12th fastest growing company in Canada by PROFIT 500, with a five-year revenue growth of 5,359%! Seattle-based sales tech company Outreach was named one of Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars. And, Headout was named one of the 10 most promising Bengaluru-based start-ups to watch by Business Insider.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. These are sorted by the year that we funded them. 1: SendGrid (2009). 3: Twilio (2009).

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