YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2015

by Eliot Burdett, co-founder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting. Eliot Burdett is the cofounder and CEO of Peak Sales Recruiting , a leading B2B sales recruiting company launched in 2006. He co-authored “ Sales Recruiting 2.0: B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As Paul Spiegelman, cofounder of the Small Giants Community, shared, “That note you can get from someone… that says, ‘thank you, you’ve changed my life’…is much more powerful, much more valuable, than any amount of money I could have in the bank.”. Deb has delighted and inspired over 1,000 audiences across North America.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

“Camunda was founded on the premise that making it easy for business stakeholders and developers to automate and improve business processes would have a transformational impact on organizations,” company CEO and cofounder Jakob Freund said. “It Our team consistently builds great products for our clients, with Camunda.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2020

Tim Hindes, co-founder and CEO of Stay Metrics, a provider of driver retention tools, believes that successful companies are the ones that lead with love from the top down. Deb has delighted and inspired over 1,000 audiences across North America. They build a culture of love. That’s what draws the talent.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. Second, European fintech companies are taking over North America thanks to the Open Banking regulatory initiatives and PSD2. Podcasts are a great way to occupy time while sitting in traffic.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

. “The KILN System has been used by large companies with established early-stage innovation processes since KILN launched at the Front-End-of-Innovation EMEA conference in Berlin in early 2011,” said Gregg Fraley, co-founder and Chief Solver of Kiln Ideas Ltd. Early uptake for the KILN System has been in North America.

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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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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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The Next Web

MAY 26, 2014

Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based SaaS startup. As an Asia-based SaaS business founder, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been asked: “Why did you base your startup in Asia, and not the US?” It’s an appropriate question. This story continues at The Next Web. Asia Entrepreneur'

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2023

He is the co-founder of Time Doctor and has been working remotely for over 20 years; working with thousands of companies looking to adopt a remote working model. He's the co-founder of Time Doctor and has been working remotely for over 20 years and has worked with thousands of companies looking to adopt a remote working model.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . AppsWorld North America. Developer conference & exhibition: Apps World will be returning to North America in 2014 for two days of engagement and high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries – mobile apps.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Founded in Philadelphia in 2007 as CityRyde and now headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Zagster helps property managers, hotels, businesses and universities across North America offer bike sharing programs to tenants, employees, guests and students.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

And arguably one of the most vibrant in North America is in Montreal , Quebec. Teams selected to participate will receive $10,000 in funding, with an additional $5000 per co-founder. So it's good news for the entrepreneurial community that there's a new accelerator program in town: FounderFuel.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At the seed stage and as companies scale, helping the founders I work with identify and reach their goals, personally and professionally, gives me energy and purpose. Together, we’ve co-invested and competed, commiserated and celebrated.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

4 teams with female co-founders (of which, 2 are CEOs). We are geographically agnostic, though focused on North America with main “hubs” in SF, Toronto, NYC, and Seattle. hardware startups having a heavy software layer (using AR and AI) . 2 crypto/blockchain applications . 3 marketplaces . 3 pre-seed rounds .

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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 Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle. TSM: What is the most important thing you tell other startup founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. So what are we going to do?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Robert Dahl.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Denis Duvauchelle is CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , helping your team organize itself using simple #hashtags. This won’t pose much of a challenge in North America, where English and Spanish covers pretty much the whole population. Grab their Twitter handle and offer them your far superior service!

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The company said it plans to use the proceeds to expand its operations in Europe and North America. The deal was lead by Tobin, a Managing GP at Battery who did the entire $6M A round.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

SailPoint also added six new delivery and reseller partners in North America and Europe, expanding its geographic reach and centers of expertise. “Our aggressive business expansion in 2010 was based on the tremendous market opportunity we see for identity governance,&# said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Back in 2000 I followed the traditional VC trail, raised a lot of money to build (with a cofounder) one of the first interactive advertising companies. Did you do anything different in Blazemeter as a result of that experience? Alon: a lot :). This is basically what I set out to do and was able to accomplish with BlazeMeter.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 14, 2016

based GlobeSherpa are merging under one brand: moovel North America. From now on, the company will be known as moovel North America. By HOJUN CHOI Reporter with Silicon Hills News Austin-based RideScout and Portland Ore.-based

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Nigel and Vaugn Caldon , co-founders of BallStar social network for basketball players. Kerry Frank co-founded Comply365 in 2007 with her husband.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 30, 2011

This is a guest post by Marc Andreessen, co-founder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz. And before that, Jeff ran eBay North America for five years, where he helped build eBay into the Internet’s leading e-commerce company and led eBay’s successful and transformative acquisitions of PayPal and Half.com.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

That’s the story of Zima Media, and the co-founders, Michael Zima and Damien Bouvier. I had the ambition to work at a traditional advertising agency, but a couple of things worked out when I secured an Agency role as an SEO Manager at the largest SEO Agency in North America managing XXXK in annual billings.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

Tellme was founded with the idea that anyone should be able to simply say what they want and get it from any device, starting with the phone, said Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Tellme. But although about 70% of the population now has access to the internet in North America, the figure is just 11% in Asia and less than 4% in Africa.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

The founder of Joyo.com (which eventually became Amazon China ), now CEO of China e-commerce site DHGate , says she’s flooded with correspondence from people telling her how her business helped them break barriers and realize their dreams. Diane Wang constantly hears stories about adversity. Diane Wang. It boasts 5.5

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BeyondVC

MARCH 14, 2007

Tellme was founded with the idea that anyone should be able to simply say what they want and get it from any device, starting with the phone,” said Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Tellme. Now, with Microsoft, we’ll be able to extend that vision to millions of businesses and consumers around the world.”.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Founder.org founder Michael Baum. In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. Were you insane?

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Jay Townley is the co-founder and partner of Gluskin Townley Group, a consulting firm with over 75 collective years of experience in the bicycling, research and retail industries. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. Find out more about Jay here: [link].

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This is exactly what Matt Buchanan and his co-founder have done while leading a technology company that offers local lead generation solutions, based in Austin, TX. As a bootstrapped company, fuelling your own growth can be challenging and comes with many lessons learned. Tell us about your products and services.

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