Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Eric- I am an industrial design student at Virginia Tech. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Tried it with multiple browsers. March 19, 2009 9:34 PM Chris Morgan said.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Everyone can be a creator now on the Internet, said Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit. When Ohanian and his University of Virginia roommate, Steve Huffman, pitched their idea […] The post Be a Creator and Change the World Says Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit appeared first on SiliconHills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Udemy. .” ” Lynda.com.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Students with entrepreneurial inclinations should find inspiration in Majora Carter’s fascinating tales of some impressively enterprising individuals from Chicago, Los Angeles and Whitesville, West Virginia. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex. Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money — and love.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Here are two good courses you might consider through Coursera: Business Strategy, offered by the University of Virginia. Originally created as online support for co-founder Lynda Weinman’s books on web design, the site has grown into a major learning destination. ” Udemy. .” ” Lynda.com.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005. Insomnia Cookies.

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities. (San The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. Small businesses are top-of-mind for lawmakers nationwide, but too often their needs are more a matter of conjecture rather than actual evidence,” says Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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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. Contributing blogger Matt Scherer recently interviewed Sheila Scarborough. 28 at 1 p.m. She discussed the changes within social media for the travel industry. Q: What inspired you to start blogging on travel?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

As a black guy, in central Virginia, solving poor people’s problems, I was 0 for 3!” First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. Recruiting founders requires investment (Nike and Adidas invest billions of dollars a year in talent pipelines), and I’m seeing Austin do just this.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and received his MBA from Stanford Business School.

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aweissman.com

JANUARY 18, 2021

Winter was outside and the view from the windows of the Dulles, Virginia office reflected the black and cold early evening. Mark Randolph, the co-founder and initial CEO of Netflix, writes about this in his book, That Will Never Work. Bob Pittman, the President of AOL, walked around the corner and stood in the doorway.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

14.7%) New Mexico (7.14%) Virginia (14.3%) Four Industries General (28.57%) Healthcare/Life Sciences (28.57%) High Tech (28.57%) Social Impact (14.3%) 58% Female Founded “The amount of attention given to female and minority founders is long overdue,” said Sara T. Brand, general partner at True Wealth Ventures.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 8, 2013

This summer, Globox launched its first 10 kiosks, located in the Johnson Center, at various international grocers in Virginia Fairfax, Falls Church, Mt. Vernon, Woodbridge, and Arlington and a 7-Eleven convenience store in Bowie, Md. There are a lot of good international titles, content, and movies out there,” Kassim explained.

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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. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

PaidContent.org Founder Launches Travel Media and Data Company. West Virginia. West Virginia. MOST READ on FOLIO: F+W Acquires Aspire Media. Merging Brands with Technology. Defining Mobile Opportunities and Strategies. Reports: Major Layoffs at Spin. FOLIO: Alerts & Newsletters. FOLIO: Alert News Updates. Executive Management.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. What if all availability zones of Amazon in Virginia are disabled for a week? At scale, the risks are completely different. It’s a different thing.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Luck Companies , an aggregate business headquartered just outside of Richmond, Virginia, believes, to quote CEO Charlie Luck, that “all human beings have extraordinary potential to make a positive difference in the world.” Falling into this trap will blind you from seeing what matters to employees beyond external motivators.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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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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Diego Basch

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Paul Graham says: You can certainly start a business without a cofounder. Well, it’s always hard to start a business that gets really big regardless of the number of founders. Paul doesn’t address the implied question: how much harder would it be for a single founder? Virginia) AWS data center for IndexTank.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid. We reached out to the D.C.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid. We reached out to the D.C.

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