Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

Since its founding in 2006, online social network and microblogging service Twitter has pretty much become a permanent part of the Internet as we know it. For aspiring startup technology entrepreneurs, “ Things a Little Bird Told Me ” provides a great insight into what it is like to live and breathe a startup.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. Organizations like Worldwide Investor Network and the US-Israel Business Council are helpful in this area.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In all seriousness, the Q&A panel session will include European entrepreneurs like Guillaume Decugis, who sold Musiwave for $125 million and is currently co-founder and CEO of Scoop.it, and Unity Technologies co-founder and CEO David Helgason (read our interview with him ).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. of all DailyMotion traffic comes from the United States.).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Relationship troubles and high tensions during the pandemic will lead to an abundance of divorce filings in the United States. The trends shifting in the eLearning sector due to the influence of COVID 19 on schools and colleges across the United States and the world are shifting to a hybridized-online and in-person format.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

The figures are more inspiring today: The 2016 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report says “there are now 11.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States, employing nearly 9 million people and generating over $1.6 Self-awareness and [your] own vision will help to research the niche and build a professional network.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

This week's One Million by One Million roundtable was our 75th session, and we worked today with three entrepreneurs from the Midwest region of the United States. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will be co-hosted with TiE Chennai and TiE Mumbai.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” Do you think I should asterisk these types of posts with a “YMMV, if you’re a non-white male founder all these things will be harder?”

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

However, it’s far from the only startup hub in the world, and it’s not even the only startup hub in the United States. Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. As the name suggests, LawGeex is all about making legal practice easier.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Foundry Group’s founder Brad Feld noted : Entrepreneurs here use a ‘give before you get’ mentality. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This is potentially a politically sensitive question, but I would say that in parts of the United States people are using technology actively. We have one of the best telecommunications networks, and are extremely well connected, but it can be very difficult to integrate people into our culture. He’s my neighbor.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. One of the things I look for when investing (in addition to the obvious question of can it make money) is a sense of financial responsibility from the founders. What impresses angels?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

During that time, I counseled and represented clients (from small businesses to internet startups to Fortune 100 companies) in transactional matters and in complex trials all over the United States. Too many people make the mistake of forming a company and reaching agreement among co-founders without consulting a lawyer.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

she / her) - Senior Vice President, Global Technology and Innovation - Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce | LinkedIn Will Young - CEO & Co-founder - Sana Benefits | LinkedIn Andrea L. Thomaz - co-Founder, CEO - Diligent Robotics, Inc. Hurt - CEO and Co-founder - data.world | LinkedIn Dana M.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. Most likely in Texas.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. With the help social networking tools it has became much easier for start ups to venture in the competitive market. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. or what is first check and our response is that the seed landscape is so confusing, and what founders need is an investor with courage and conviction to lead their rounds and support them from day 1.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Phil Randazzo , is the founder of American Dream U , a national entrepreneurship and coaching program that helps transitioning soldiers find work or start their own business. Derek Andersen , is the founder of Startup Grind , a 200,000-person entrepreneurial community with chapters in 75 countries run by more than 1,000 volunteers.

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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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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. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The

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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. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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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 Rissell is the co-founder and CEO of TSheets, an Eagle, Idaho-based technology firm that provides online, GPS-powered time tracking for companies with hourly employees. Show Summary.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Take the gift card market, for example, is $110 billion alone for 2012 in the United States, with more than 276 million people exchanging these stored value cards. “We believe Giift.com has a strong value proposition for both users and business partners,” says Pascal Xatart, CEO and co-founder of Giift.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. Give me a little bit of the origin story of Lulu and kind of how you came to it.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 21, 2019

If you add together Apple, Alphabet, eBay, Facebook*, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks*, PayPal, Salesforce, ServiceNow*, Twitter, Uber, and Workday*, these twelve companies alone have a market capitalization of $3 Trillion, a little bit more than the annual GDP of the United Kingdom in 2018. Network Effects (or other competitive moats).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

He is the Co-Founder and CEO of the CRM platform, Contactually. But, would it be safe to say that you have learned a ton about networking from, you know, the power users of Contactually? Or would it be safe to say that you wrote this book, because people still don’t get how to network? Zvi Band: Both.

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