The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. TSM: Congratulations on being named the first Latina president of the Chicago Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. A show about nothing and a little bit about everything. Elizabeth Colón.

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Founder Chicago LLC Leadership 158

Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. 4Geeks Academy students gain real-world software development skills that traditional education left behind but are required to meet the demands of our digital economy. It’s a project “For” “Geeks.”.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Venezuela 117

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Register your business name. The name of your business identifies your enterprise, which makes it easy for people to notice and understand your business. After you pick a good business name, it’s advisable to register that name to certify and protect it. Develop a founders agreement.

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Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. Some founders are taken aback. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? They are calling me to go build what they tell me to build.

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Software Developers Software Development Developer Software 292

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? What special data, content, APIs, etc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Many of these founders have talked with several developers or development firms about their plans. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? What special data, content, APIs, etc.

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Developer Founder Viral Oauth 384

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2017

They make hardware with a large part of their innovation in embedded software and services. While a significant part of the headcount of this tech company was in manufacturing, the director’s group was made up of experienced software engineers. The founders. Founders are comfortable in the chaos and disorder.

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Part-Time VPE Liquidity Event Stock Engineer 329

K9 Ventures

APRIL 16, 2023

I’ve been heads down working with K9 portfolio companies and spending my time running HiHello as the co-founder and CEO of that company. After 10 years of building K9, my knowledge and advice to founders were becoming dated. The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude.

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Engineer Software Engineering Texas China 69

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Congrats to my friends at Rally Software on the announcement that they’ve signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by CA Technologies for $480 million. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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Software Technology Agile SCRUM 70

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

As you chug through the arduous process of creating a brand name, you may experience frustration. Have you come up with some great ideas, but you keep rejecting them because you are finding problems with every name? In fact, when you look close enough, you’ll see that virtually every brand name sucks. You’re not alone.

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Naming Chicago Europe Cloud 208

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I’ll start by taking you to the world of Startup X, a passionate team of entrepreneurs who believed they had the next big thing in the world of software as a service (SaaS). It’s disheartening, but sadly, this is one experience that many startup founders face. Do you find yourself and your project in a similar position?

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Design Product Churn Rate Architecture 105

Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). (BTW, What does this mean for startup founders? Here’s the thing most founders miss.

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Liquidity Event Founder Liquidation Preference Private Equity 120

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2023

Neko Health is well positioned to achieve its goals, as the board of directors recently welcomed notable investors such as Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skype, and Klaus Hommels, founder of the venture capital firm Lakestar. In addition, the images captured by the 3D scanner are sent to a remote location for analysis.

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Sweden Artificial Inteligence Cofounder Technical Review 126

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In preparing to write his acclaimed book David and Goliath , Malcolm Gladwell recalls an encounter with a software programming legend named Vivek Ranadivé. In the seconds, moments, weeks, and months after a felt loss, founders have the precious chance to monitor the movement of their thoughts.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 131

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Emeric is the Founder and CEO of AgoraPulse – an easy-to-use all-in-one social media management software. 2:56] What’s the genesis of the name, “AgoraPulse”? [4:26] Emeric is the Founder and CEO of AgoraPulse – an easy-to-use all-in-one social media management software.

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Social Media Media Marketing Software Review 101

View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

Today, we have invested in over 100 high-growth companies, some of which have grown to be household names with thousands of employees making a huge impact in the everyday lives of everyday people. . We invest nationally across Consumer and B2B software, while most of our investments are based in NYC, SF/Bay Area, and Boston.

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Operations Hiring Seed Stage Software Review 227

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

I spoke with experts at a number of software development shops to get their insights on this topic, leaders at DarwinApps , Casual Corp , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , Coventure (a VC with its own software development team), and World Accelerator (an accelerator focused on premium domain names). Others think the model can work.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I left the meeting and had to attend a 3-hour board meeting where two founders have been fighting and each want the other one fired. I then had to review a nefarious IP lawsuit filed against another company and help the CEO figure out whether we should just pay it or join forces with the other companies named and fight it. I remember.

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Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

by Peter Johnston , founder and CEO of Kalo. Micha Kaufman, CEO and co-founder of Fiverr, believes the freelance ecosystem will become a viable solution for entrepreneurs who need assistance with a variety of tasks for their growing businesses. But what about freelancers? But what type of technology can help?

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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Due Diligence 228

Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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Venture Capital Founder Angel Investor Portfolio 90

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

by Gaurav Gupta , Founder of Square Boat. Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. It integrates seamlessly with your existing payroll, POS, and HR software.

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Software Review Startup Azure SEO 113

Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We also provide laser-focused guidance to clients like a beam of light, so we wanted to include that element in the name. 1- We focused on strategy.

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Naming Entrepreneur South America Social Media 127

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Product naming is hard. Too many factors come into play when looking for a name and it’s almost impossible to decide on the right name once you’ve stared at the same list for a week straight. As an aside, his application launched last week and you can find it at [link] or in the iPhone app store under the name “QuickReader.”

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Product Name Naming Product Software Review 46

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Startup eCommerce Hosting Bootstrapping 252

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah and Steven Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. We frequently tell entrepreneurs that advisors who are just names on a page are kind of a waste of time. Mike Baker – CEO of DataXu.

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Due Diligence 120

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

by Matt Martin, Co-Founder and CEO of Clockwise. Harvard Business Review found that context switching cost one large software company more than 450 hours per year, per manager. Last, create calendar events and name them after the task you want to accomplish during that time. Morale has dipped during COVID-19.

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Management Cofounder Software Review Employee 232

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 188

View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. As a founder, if you have a power alley in a specific functional role or the startup itself will strike a chord with people in that functional specialty, look to add prominent thinkers (especially local ones) in that space to the affinity list. Affinity by function.

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Angel Investor Boston Seed Stage Syndicate 332

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 19, 2012

The other day I wrote a post about the lack of Enterprise Software disruption coming out of NYC —and a lot of people responded that I wasn’t citing Buddy Media. When I looked at the site, it had the term “Social Enterprise Software” written all over it. Social Media Software. Facebook Pages.

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Software Media Social Media Advertising 104

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. The Purpose of Entrepreneur Advisors​.

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 113

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We’re excited and feel incredibly lucky to have them back on board: Niraj Shah & Steve Conine – Co-founders of Wayfair. Mike Baker – Co-Founder/CEO of DataXu. Brian Shin – Founder/CEO of Visible Measures. Their expertise is focused across the range of software ?and? At their core all of ?the

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Software Review Technical Review Entrepreneur Cofounder 100

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 11, 2018

Time and time again, I hear how hard of a time startups are having recruiting, especially for software developers. When I was a startup founder, I had this same issue. That's when I had a conversation with Max Ventilla, the founder of AltSchool, who at the time was running Aardvark. The team already had a lead on board.

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Software Engineering Software Development Software Developers Software 96

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

GumGum now also lists similar clients, including Vodafone and Sprint, a sign of how one big-name client can attract others. For example, recently I was in the market for some transcription software. I headed to Google to search for “best transcription software” and read some blog posts that reviewed the best options.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts. It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest. Fundraising debt.

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Cofounder Burn Rate Technical Cofounder Seed Capital 127

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear.

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South Africa New York City San Francisco Technical Review 136