Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. Hunter is a partner at Homebrew and previously led consumer product management at YouTube.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. This is the time when he and co-founder Mark Okada decided to relocate the firm from Los Angeles to Dallas.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. However, as we got involved in issues like clean drinking water, we realized we’re missing a big opportunity to rally communities around us.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

A finalist in Payment and FinTech Technology category, Pawame is lighting up rural communities in Africa with clean, affordable and reliable solar home systems. In December, he and I successfully participated in a pitch night for Dubai Angel Investors, netting a $75,000 commitment. The founders?—?Alex

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

. Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back. This year, Techventure has also taken on two new partner events - TechInnovation 2012 and Failcon Singapore. The three-day conference will take place with the theme of ‘Asian. Innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. She became part of the fabric of her community. And through this industry legitimacy she was able to get the ear of Dany Levy, the co-founder of Daily Candy. She focused on her customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2011

He co-founded this company along with three partners in 1982. McNealy's background is surprisingly all business, after an MBA from Stanford, rather than computer science or programming, and unlike most members of the Silicon Valley community. Meg Whitman, President and CEO of eBay.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. #5 You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the past year and a half, Siri and I have taken great pride in building a workspace that helps remote workers find an inspiring place to work and find community in the process with Reset. a thriving community, the sharing economy of spaces and immersion into the Austin restaurant scene like nothing we could have imagined.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

While supporting the LGBTQIA+ community at-large is a personal interest of mine , I must admit that my attendance at this most-recent ROMBA event was purely motivated by self-interest. Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers. there are many avenues.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

With a little research I found a few notable ones, including the following: Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems , which he co-founded along with three partners in 1982. McNealy's background is surprisingly all business, rather than computer science or programming, unlike most members of the Silicon Valley community.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

Joel Gascoigne is the co-founder and CEO of Buffer, a social media management platform. In addition to his early career as a surgeon, Dr. Larry Goren is also a well-respected entrepreneur and the founder/CEO of Onsite Innovations, one of the largest providers of on-site occupational medical services in the United States.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

Both of our founders have struggled with mental health, and have found solace in counseling, journaling, and lots of self-reflection. A few years ago, I co-founded Cancer U, an online membership platform for cancer patients and caregivers. After her death, I. founded a nonprofit dedicated to primary liver cancer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. Digital Response.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 23, 2015

” I was told this several times about becoming a parent but the same can be true about the life of a founder. They don’t give me bonus credit for spending time with our founders daily, weekly, monthly. Overdeliver on the promises we made to founders we backed. #3 “The days are long but the years are short.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I’m Hannah, founder and CEO at Babbler. We knew we would solve the problem faster by having access to the Techstars network and accelerator program (5000+ founders, mentors and investors worldwide) Learn how to scale our business and automate sales and csm by exporting our SaaS in a foreign and huge market: the US.

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

I remember writing a blog post in 2008, post-financial crash, on how the recession was going to re-vitalize the city’s tech startup community, which would eventually help diversify the NYC economy. I agree that you want to be close geographically to your investments but it is possible to invest across borders with the right partners.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The solution to scaling people is “culture”, which is just a way to spread how the founders work and make decisions to the rest of the team. Our founders have a history together, so we already knew how everyone worked and remote was fine. But the companies we partner with probably aren’t in the same situation.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? Usually royalties fall somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent of the net profit.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2023

We’ll be sharing lots more about the content of this conference and the perspectives that our investor and founder speakers shared over the next few weeks. There are lots of smaller meetups run by community members that also struggle to create value for everyone involved. 2) Most startup events suck.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. Is it possible that with this technology, future buildings could attain zero net energy consumption?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Do something together.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register? Personalize your own news page.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

On the other side of this radio interview are Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams , both founders of their own startups, both coaches and mentors to dozens of other startups over the years, and who together created and still run the In Good Company co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City. They’re really neat.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2020

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. 2- Impact of building a community. My biggest motivation in being an entrepreneur is the impact of building a community to help bring solutions to the problems we face today. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Relationships.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

5-My co-founders’ wife came up with it. As much as I would like to take credit for the name it was my co-founders’ wife that thought of it. 9- My partner screamed it out. My partner and I were in college on Long Island and that’s also where we grew up. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Fullfunnel co-founder Andrei Zinkevich says, “ABM is not that complicated, and it’s also oversimplified.”. If leads-based B2B marketing is fishing with a net, ABM is using a harpoon. We needed a way to co-create one cohesive message for our key accounts.” — Hillary Carpio, Director of ABM, Snowflake.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

For the last two years, I’ve been pretty vocal about politics on social media , in my weekly tech community newsletter and on this blog. It’s an entirely fair question—and the risk is that limited partners, founders, or other VCs might not want to work with me because I’m vocal about my political views.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I gained nearly 20 pounds during those two years, in part because of the growing frustration I felt when I would leave yet another meeting with VCs who I felt didn’t genuinely listen to, understand, or value my experience as a black founder and CEO. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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